What do you think about global warming? Is it our fault?

Question

What do you think about global warming? Is it our fault?

Answer 1

sure,  just last week my wife was so mad she almost caused a new ice age

Answer 2

No.  Solar activity and water vapour are the main drivers of climate.

Answer 3

Climate change is a money and power grab scheme by bottom feeder politicians and power brokers. It's nothing to do with ecology and everything to do with money.

Con artists like Gore have enriched themselves on this issue, taking home Oscars, Nobel Prizes and millions of dollars. Meanwhile, evangelical leaders are setting up their flocks for extreme fleecing by leftist politicos like Barack Obama, who will appeal for Christian votes by talking in glowing, biblical-sounding terms about "being good stewards of God's creation."

Here is truth about global warming:

Global warming is one-half of the climatic cycle of warming and cooling.

The earth's mean temperature cycles around the freezing point of water.

This is a completely natural phenomenon which has been going on since

there has been water on this planet. It is driven by the sun.

Our planet is currently emerging from a 'mini ice age', so is

becoming warmer and may return to the point at which Greenland is again usable as farmland (as it has been in recorded history).

As the polar ice caps decrease, the amount of fresh water mixing with oceanic water will slow and perhaps stop the thermohaline cycle (the oceanic heat 'conveyor' which, among other things, keeps the U.S. east coast warm).

When this cycle slows/stops, the planet will cool again and begin to enter another ice age.

It's been happening for millions of years.

The worrisome and brutal predictions of drastic climate effects are based on computer models, NOT CLIMATE HISTORY.

As you probably know, computer models are not the most reliable of sources, especially when used to 'predict' chaotic systems such as weather.

Global warming/cooling, AKA 'climate change':

Humans did not cause it.

Humans cannot stop it.

Answer 4

No it is us Americans using up all the natural resorces and stealing them from all the t**d world countries.  What has to be done is TAX the 'ell out of the stupid Americans so they stop using stuff. Send all the tax money to the UN so they can divide it up amongst all the third world dicators.  The big burning ball of gas in the sky, don't even consider its hot burning rays as anything that may warm the earth.  Why that is silly to consider the sun as anything other than a light sorce so you can wake up in the morning and go to work. It don't heat up a darn thing, that old sun.

Answer 5

Mostly.

This is science and what counts is the data.

"I wasn’t convinced by a person or any interest group—it was the data that got me. I was utterly convinced of this connection between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change. And I was convinced that if we didn’t do something about this, we would be in deep trouble.”

Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, USN (Ret.)

Former NASA Administrator, Shuttle Astronaut

Here are two summaries of the mountain of peer reviewed data that convinced Admiral Truly and the vast majority of the scientific community, short and long.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Ima...

http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report....

summarized at:

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report...

There's a lot less controversy about this is the real world than there is on Yahoo answers:

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/a...

And vastly less controversy in the scientific community than you might guess from the few skeptics talked about here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_...

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/fu...

EVERY major scientific organization has issued an official statement that this is real, and mostly caused by us.  The National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Physics, the American Chemical Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Association, etc.

Good websites for more info:

http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/f101.a...

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/sci...

http://www.realclimate.org

"climate science from climate scientists"

http://environment.newscientist.com/chan...

Answer 6

Cheney wants to build 130,000 more power plants wich will lower co2 emissions but also raises the risk for an "accident" like chernobyl. its funny how we blame our people for not changing but honestly i believe its our government. we have been lied to for many years and that puts us in the hole even more because its my generation who knows nothing .. im 15 most of my friends know nothing about global warming. how can we change the world if we dont even know the truth?

its my generations world that is being altered and we are the ones who will see the up rise or the fall. But when your 15 16 or 17 global warming prob. isnt on the like list for topics to talk about. but it needs to be it is important that we know and it needs to be understood that all this is going on. most people and kids dont even know the dien out of honey bees which will lose us 1/3 of fruits and pollunated goods. is it my future that will have "fake" fruits. what about my american land. if our poles are melting which they are and water moves in will my house be swept under water? because i live on the coast it will. where will i go? and even worse i live within 20miles of TWO power plants. if there is an "accident" that they forget to tell us again what will happen to me? will i lose everything as i know it? most likely. its a scary thought but it is the truth.

Answer 7

Yes and no. It is necessary for the greenhouse gaes to trap the solar energy to heat th earth.

BUT, humans and their activities emit far too much greenhouse gases, and trap too much heat in, causing the earth to gradually get warmer over time.

There is no way to reverse the problem, but we can stop it. (We won't though. The human race is incapaple to unify and do something without it directly effecting us.)

Global Warming can cause serious problems, and if we don't do something soon, it will be unstoppable. Here are a few examples:

Plants that only grow in warmer regions, are moving north.

The strong hurricanes and storms? Yeah. Storms get stronger when they go over warm water.... ???

We've had more hurricanes in the past years than history shows. ever.

Oh, and the last few years? The highest global temperatures recorded.

If you put this and all the other information out there, you have to come up with one solution. It IS our fault. And we are making it worse!

Answer 8

"Our" meaning humans?

I definitely think so.  Normally climate  changes happen, but they take place over many hundreds or thousands of years (forgetting some cataclysmic event like getting hit by an asteroid).

Our climate has changed radically in the last 100 years only, which happens to coincide with our industrialized age.  Before that, it was on normal cycles.

Regardless, whether we want to take blame for it or not, it is assuredly happening, so one way or another we have to figure out a way to turn it around or pretty soon people in Kansas will be having oceanfront property.

This isn't just something your kids or grandkids will have to deal with - if you live another 40 years, it'll be your problem too.  Actually it's your problem now, but in 40 years it'll be an irreversible problem, and you'll to live with it.  And 40 years ain't much time to get a whole world to turn around its habits and technologies.

Answer 9

Not much, but i dont believe in Fairytales. Ill probalby drive my suv a few extra miles eat some animal and chop down a tree in my back yard for earth day