What happened to Global Warming? Is it becoming a thing of the past?

Question

It seems like it is becoming a thing of the past just like Global Cooling was in the 1970's. There's going to be an ice age in 20 -30 years oh wait now the earth is going to burn. Which is it?

Answer 1

A fad that came and  gone like all fads do!

Answer 2

I am an advocate of global chilling myself.

Answer 3

Well, no, this summer has been one of the hottest yet, but a lot of people believe in global "climate" change. I, and a lot of other people think that the earth is going to cool down again in a about 6 months. Now, we are just going through a really tough drought.

Answer 4

who knows every 10 years scientist come up with some kind of apocoliptic c**p.

Answer 5

who knows...  

Answer 6

GLOBAL WARMING IS c**p AND IT HAS BEEN AND ALWAYS WILL BE!  

Answer 7

In 2005 the eminent climate scientist Dr. James Hansen warned that: “We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.” Three years later, we are now crossing some of those tipping points. In June 2008, Professor Barry Brook cautioned that even the most ambitious international greenhouse gas reduction targets might not prevent a catastrophic increase in temperatures: "Two degrees has the potential to lead to three or four degrees because of carbon-cycle feedbacks."

Unless we adopt the strongest measures — emergency measures as we argue in Climate Code Red — it will be too late. It is no longer a matter of how much more we can heat the planet, but how quickly can we cool it.

In a comment for Climate Code Red, James Hansen now says that "Recent greenhouse gas emissions place the Earth perilously close to dramatic climate change that could run out of our control, with great dangers for humans and other creatures. There is already enough carbon in the Earth’s atmosphere for massive ice sheets such as West Antarctica to eventually melt away, and ensure that sea levels will rise metres in coming decades. Climate zones such as the tropics and temperate regions will continue to shift, and the oceans will become more acidic, endangering much marine life. We must begin to move rapidly to the post-fossil fuel clean energy system. Moreover, we must remove some carbon that has collected in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution."

Hansen and seven fellow scientists have circulated a paper making the precautionary case for global cooling and a swift return to 325 ppm atmospheric carbon. The response, according to former US Greenpeace deputy director Ken Ward, has been "a deafening silence" from most climate lobby groups. "As a matter of intellectual honesty, we have two options: endorse or refute [Hansen's call]. As a matter of environmental principle, there is no option, and the longer we remain silent, the greater the moral burden" and the more impossible it is to recognise what needs to be done, says Ward.

Hansen and his colleagues have set a challenge that cannot be ignored. Time is short and emergency action beckons as the only practical solution.

  



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Answer 8

you're dumb.

go listen to al gore.

Answer 9

I am watching for the poison . That is my priority.

Answer 10

It is most definitely not.

People are saying that global warmign was just made up and that its c**p and all these other things.

Global warming is happening now at this very moment every time you plug something in turn on your computer turn on your car, watch t.v., turn on lights, run water, and many other things.

sure the earth goes through natural cycles of heating and cooling but every 10 to 20 thousand years.

didnt we just have an ice age a few thousand years ago?

we are going into a period of warming but we are accelerating it and that is global warming.

now i am only 14 but i seriusly do pay attention to these kind of things and i have done my research.

and to make matters worse we are also cutting down forests all over the world especially in the amazon and rainforests around the world.

Answer 11

you are wrong we are slowling getting into the global warming right now. its slowly melting the millions of years of ice we had in the polars and its going to be bad soem day but not for us or those weh ave children but its coming. yes, its very sad it will get very hot no ice age.

Answer 12

Actually, global warning ended in 1998.  The 0.6 degree warning that had accumulated up to that point has now gone away.  Al Gore discovered the warming but has not yet discovered the cooling.

Answer 13

There is no such thing as global warming. The thing is that the earth is just going in it's regular cycle of warming up, and cooling off. This happens every 20 to 30 years and when it happens people freak out and make stupid things up like global warming, and the greenhouse effect. It's just something the government uses to scare us. Don't believe me? Why did AL GORE make a movie about it? Seriously, like he's not in politics.

EDIT: Mr Ken is exactly right.

Answer 14

A thing of the past or nobody cares, it's a sad sad thing dont you think.

Answer 15

No, people are just getting wise to this great fraud!

Global warming is the biggest scam ever to be perpetrated on mankind dwarfing even the dangerous illusions of communism and fascism because this pseudo science has deranged proponents globally.  This pseudo science has already had deadly consequences on humanity with the potential to inflict even more harm on humanity and the environment.  

The perpetrators of this fraud have enriched themselves in the process.  Al Gore is now a billionaire thanks to this great lie, yet he himself hypocritically does not subscribe to the global warming craze.  His home uses more energy in one month than 40 houses use in a year; he uses a private jet to travel around espousing this bs; and his fleet of limos idle with the air conditioner on while waiting hours for him while he gives speeches.  The American people need to wake up and see global warming for the fraud it really is before it totally destroys us as a nation and a people.  And now congress wants to reintroduce the ‘Climate Security Act. Anyone who votes for Demoncrats deserve what they get because the Demons are pushing this gobal warming insanity.   In case you haven’t heard about the 'Climate Security Act' the Demons want to enact here is Walter Williams on the subject:

“If you’re bothered by skyrocketing food and energy prices, wait until Congress re-introduces its environmentalist-inspired Climate Security Act, so-called ‘Cap and Trade.’ Cap and Trade is deceptively peddled as a free-market solution to the yet-to-be-settled issue of manmade climate change. Under its provisions, companies would be able to emit greenhouse gases only if they had a government allowance. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that a 15 percent cut in emissions would raise the annual average household’s energy costs by $1,300. Since energy is an input to everything we use, we can expect everything to become more costly, resulting in a reduction in economic growth. There’s a hateful side to Cap and Trade that’s revealed by asking the question: How will it be decided who received how much allowance to emit greenhouse gases? Congress could sell the allowances and/or give them away to favorite constituents. You can bet the rent money that a new army of lobbyists, with special pleadings, will descend on Washington to lobby Congress. And you can be sure that campaign contributions and favoritism will play an important role in the decision of who received what amount of allowances. Much worse than that is the massive control government would have over our economy and our lives... The thirst to wield massive control over our economy helps explain the near religious belief in manmade global warming and the attacks on scientists and others who offer contradictory evidence.” —Walter Williams

Answer 16

It's almost over. There are a few people holding out hope that it will come back. But, the data is getting harder to fudge. CO2 levels are dropping in response to cooler temperatures. So, not only is the temperature trend wrong, but soon it will be clear that temperate drives CO2 levels, not the other way around.

Answer 17

The 'Man-did-it' global warming fiasco is going the way of the Pet-Rock, Hula Hoop and Pound Puppy.

Unfortunately, we taxpayers will be scammed out of many Billions of $$ before it's finally over.

Answer 18

Ok, let's check the trends:

Co2:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mauna...

Temperature:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Instr...

Thing of the past? NOPE: thing of the future.

Answer 19

We should not underestimate global warming because Global warming is slowly destroying our environment although we cannot sense it. We should be alert .

Answer 20

those who say global warming is not real is missing the big picture cause its real as can be our planet is warming slowly and our future is at stake if we dont start taking care of the planet and trust me damaged has already been done.  

Answer 21

No matter what we do, we cannot change the forces of nature. We can prepare for some of them some of the time but we can't stop volcano eruptions, hurricanes, tornados and the like. Yes, we can clean up our air, water and earth which is necessary for healthful living and if this warming scare helps us to do these things, that would be good. If ice melting in the Arctic is supposed to raise water levels, then why are our beaches, lakes and waterways all drying up? Leave it to the politicians and large corporations to use this excuse to profit.

Answer 22

You are correct.  Since satellites show the earth has not warmed over the past ten years, and cooled over the past couple of years, it has now metamorphosed into "climate change".

Like network television, time to move on to another apocalyptic end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it drama.

Global warming never really resonated with people since most people like warm weather.  Telling someone in America they have to lower their standard of living for COLDER winters is a non-starter.

And people already experience yearly changes of over 100 F, so telling them we can't possibly adapt to a 1 F change over a lifetime never made any sense from the get go.

As far as endorsements of global warming by eminent scientific societies, here is one that manages to avoid endorsing anything:

"Emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are changing the atmosphere in ways that affect the Earth's climate."

-- American Physical Society Council November 18, 2007

Note there is no mention of carbon dioxide, temperature change, direction of temperature change, or even if anything is significant.  Nada.

That statement is true no matter which way you lean on the global warming issue.

Answer 23

No, it's very much still with us.

Global cooling was an idea of a few guys (even then, the majority position was warming) who got WAY more attention in the media than they deserved.  Just like today's so called "skeptics".

It won't be a Hollywood movie style disaster. Gradually coastal areas will flood and agriculture will be damaged. But it will be very bad. Rich countries will cope, but it will take huge amounts of money. In poor countries many people will die of starvation, but not all of them.

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.

But feel free to believe some random guy here instead.

Answer 24

Al Gore said the earth will be flooded next year.  The oceans will flood all cities  next to the oceans.  Everyone is going to die unless we elect him president and then let him do whatever he wants to do. lol

Really, the earth has been through cooling and warming since before people were invented.  Scientist's have proven that decades ago.  And it will continue to go up and down a little here and a little there.  It fluctuates, all the time and will forever.  Well, until the sun goes nova, but that will not be next year.

Global warming was invented by politicians and environmentalists.  The environmentalists want us to stop taking natural resources out of the earth, and the politicians want the help of the environmentalists to help keep them in power over you.  When I was a kid it was global cooling. :(   Whatever!  Too bad they don't look at good science.

Answer 25

Actually global warming was hypothesized by Arrhenius, so it's been a problem for a while.  So for now the planet is slowly warming up, it's part of its cycle, however it's been sped up by human activity.  

Answer 26

There is no "Global Warming." Sure, things are changing, but when are people going to open their eyes and realize that it's NATURE!?  

Answer 27

ok people global warming is real no matter what you want to believe and it's time people start facing the facts.  yes for millions or even billions of years the earth has gone through cooling and heating phases.  but twice in our planets history something so dramatic has happen to cause 2 ice ages and kill nearly everything alive.  now in the last 200 years people have dramatically change the face of planet and the way it's supposed to work.  green house gases are natural in certain amounts the same can be said about the green house effect.  but because of increased burning of fossil fuels every year we have almost put the planet beyond it's limit and soon it will do what it has to too eliminate the problem.  not saying that the planet has a mind but we can see disasters happening almost every year now.  and sure storms happen and what not but never have they been so frequent and so intense in mankinds history (unless your religious and believe the great flood happened).  almost everyday now you can hear about a new disaster striking somewhere in the world.  example.  i live in fl. hurricane capital of the world pretty much.  3 years ago we had a record number of hurricanes that year.  2 years later katrina hit a record size and wind hurricane in like the last 80 years or something.  hurricanes happen when cold water meets with the warm water in the gulf and between oceanj curents and atmospheric pressures and temptures make a hurrican form.  well with the increased melting to million year old ice shelfs in the artic break off and follow currents down south that cold water makes so massive storms.  this isn't some fad new diet or ferbie.  this is a real problem and people need to see it as such and take it seriously.  if everone believed it was a fad no one would made and signed to the montreal and kyoto emissions acts.  which the US signed to one.  so some of know it's real and are doing something about.  but real changes can only be made when everyone realises this is real and does what they can about it.

Answer 28

First of all, there never was any "global cooling being in" in the 1970s. There were a handful of speculative articles in some popular magazines (e.g. Newsweek)--NOT scientific journals. It's only in the ignorant imaginations the so-called "skeptics" that this was a scientific paradigm. They don't even know the difference between a pop-sci feature and a scientific report!

Global warming hasn't gone anywhere (unfortunately)--and isn't going to. It's temporarily on the back burner due to the current hysteria over oil prices.