What is Global Warning???

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Global warming is the increase in the average measured temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-twentieth century, and its projected continuation.

What is Global Warning???

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

The Planet Is Heating Up—and Fast

Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, cloud forests are drying, and wildlife is scrambling to keep pace. It's becoming clear that humans have caused most of the past century's warming by releasing heat-trapping gases as we power our modern lives. Called greenhouse gases, their levels are higher now than in the last 650,000 years.

Is Global Warming Real?

The warming of Earth's surface and oceans over the past century is very well documented, and climate research shows that most of the warming in the past half century results from manmade greenhouse gases.

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Answer 1

yes, it is true. Global Warming is when the earth's ozone layer breaks, the sun's ultra-violet rays came in the earth to make the earth hotter combines of poluttions. Yikes! we must REALLY need to do something before it get more worse!!

Answer 2

Global warning is the result of Global warming. Immediate steps are required to stem it.

Answer 3

Honestly, I believe Global Warming is the biggest hoax that ever walked the planet. Before it was Global Cooling...and the cause of Global Warming is like almost everthing these days...

Answer 4

Global warming is the increase in the average measured temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-twentieth century, and its projected continuation.

The average global air temperature near the Earth's surface increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the hundred years ending in 2005.[1] The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes "most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-twentieth century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic (man-made) greenhouse gas concentrations"[1] via an enhanced greenhouse effect. Natural phenomena such as solar variation combined with volcanoes probably had a small warming effect from pre-industrial times to 1950 and a small cooling effect from 1950 onward.[2][3]

These basic conclusions have been endorsed by at least thirty scientific societies and academies of science,[4] including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries.[5][6][7] While individual scientists have voiced disagreement with some findings of the IPCC,[8] the overwhelming majority of scientists working on climate change agree with the IPCC's main conclusions.[9][10]

Climate model projections summarized by the IPCC indicate that average global surface temperature will likely rise a further 1.1 to 6.4 °C (2.0 to 11.5 °F) during the twenty-first century.[1] This range of values results from the use of differing scenarios of future greenhouse gas emissions as well as models with differing climate sensitivity. Although most studies focus on the period up to 2100, warming and sea level rise are expected to continue for more than a thousand years even if greenhouse gas levels are stabilized. The delay in reaching equilibrium is a result of the large heat capacity of the oceans.[1]

Increasing global temperature is expected to cause sea level to rise, an increase in the intensity of extreme weather events, and significant changes to the amount and pattern of precipitation. Other expected effects of global warming include changes in agricultural yields, modifications of trade routes, glacier retreat, species extinctions and increases in the ranges of disease vectors.

Remaining scientific uncertainties include the amount of warming expected in the future, and how warming and related changes will vary from region to region around the globe. Most national governments have signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but there is ongoing political and public debate worldwide regarding what, if any, action should be taken to reduce or reverse future warming or to adapt to its expected consequences.

Answer 5

Global Warming is WARMING OF THE GLOBE!!!

Answer 6

Please read the most articles in most journals, everyday; of environment !

Answer 7

You have already given the whole answer.Anyways in short intensified green house effect itself is nothing but global warming.Lets have a short example.When we keep car in hot sun with all the windows closed for some time and sit back  inside the car the temperature inside is more because of green house effect.

Answer 8

Question please.?

Answer 9

Try to do the math for the average temp. They have used the bad uncalibrated temp ,to establish a joke. It would be nearly impossible to do as there much more cities in the warm zone than in the cold zone. So would U be surprised that this mess showed that things were warmer than they should  be. This kind of figures can be tilted very easily.

Answer 10

The Faithful Heretic:A Wisconsin Icon Pursues Tough Questions

http://www.wecnmagazine.com/2007issues/m...

Answer 11

...do u drink kool aid?...im sorry but it just pisses me of that al gore could lie about global warming and have followers that dont know what they are getting theyreselves into...these "records" try to scare us cause we are only recording irrefutible bits and pieces of our nature...yes our ice caps could be melting...but overall antartica is actually getting colder...it is only ourselves that we should be worried about...we should be keeping track of ourselves...the only reaason we came into this panic is because FEAR SELLS...yeah think of a comercial...almost every commercial sells by fear...go check it and if ur older than 14...shame shame cause i am 14

Answer 12

due to emission of the green house gases like co2,co,etc.the air gets warmed and glaciers and ice caps melt down and increase the level of water.on the whole due to emission of these gases the atmosphere gets heated.this is called global warming.

Answer 13

Global warming is the increase in the average measured temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-twentieth century, and its projected continuation.

The average global air temperature near the Earth's surface increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the hundred years ending in 2005.[1] The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes "most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-twentieth century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic (man-made) greenhouse gas concentrations"[1] via an enhanced greenhouse effect. Natural phenomena such as solar variation combined with volcanoes probably had a small warming effect from pre-industrial times to 1950 and a small cooling effect from 1950 onward.[2][3]

These basic conclusions have been endorsed by at least thirty scientific societies and academies of science,[4] including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries.[5][6][7] While individual scientists have voiced disagreement with some findings of the IPCC,[8] the overwhelming majority of scientists working on climate change agree with the IPCC's main conclusions.[9][10]

Climate model projections summarized by the IPCC indicate that average global surface temperature will likely rise a further 1.1 to 6.4 °C (2.0 to 11.5 °F) during the twenty-first century.[1] This range of values results from the use of differing scenarios of future greenhouse gas emissions as well as models with differing climate sensitivity. Although most studies focus on the period up to 2100, warming and sea level rise are expected to continue for more than a thousand years even if greenhouse gas levels are stabilized. The delay in reaching equilibrium is a result of the large heat capacity of the oceans.[1]

Increasing global temperature is expected to cause sea level to rise, an increase in the intensity of extreme weather events, and significant changes to the amount and pattern of precipitation. Other expected effects of global warming include changes in agricultural yields, modifications of trade routes, glacier retreat, species extinctions and increases in the ranges of disease vectors.

Remaining scientific uncertainties include the amount of warming expected in the future, and how warming and related changes will vary from region to region around the globe. Most national governments have signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but there is ongoing political and public debate worldwide regarding what, if any, action should be taken to reduce or reverse future warming or to adapt to its expected consequences.

Answer 14

Global Warming is real. Global Warming is...

Ok well its like a blanket covering the earth. All the pollution can't escape so they come down to us. It makes the earth hotter. And when the earth becomes hotter the poles (N. && S. Poles) begin to melt. The ice I mean. Animals that live t here will die becasue they cannot swim or they need ice to survive. So where does all the ice water go? Well I think it goes to US. WE will be covered with water and drown. That is how dangerous it is. So we MUST do somthing.

Answer 15

Global Warning would be a caution agianst big balls....

In the late seventies after 2-3 bad winters, they predicted a new ice age.....

These people will say anything to get their pet project funded....

Answer 16

A gigantic myth

Answer 17

Global Whining is more like it.

It's fake.

Answer 18

our planets "ozone layer" is thinning due to greenhouse gases that are going up in the air. the "ozone layer is very important to all of us because it protects from the sun's harmful UV rays a.k.a. UltraViolet. right now as we speak the ozone layer is thinning and it will keep doing that throughout the years!!! so greenhouse gases are affecting the ozone layer so this means that the heat traps. that is why is too hot!!! i hope that this answer your question =D