What is Global warming and when does it take affect?

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What is Global warming and when does it take affect?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Some gases ("greenhouse gases") let sunlight in, which warms the Earth, and then block that heat from leaving. That's the "greenhouse effect", and it's a natural thing, mostly caused by water vapor.

Man is making excessive amounts of greenhouse gases, mostly by burning fossil fuels. That causes the delicate natural balance to go out of whack and the Earth warms. That's global warming.

It won't be a Hollywood 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.

Most scientists say, in 20-50 years. But we need to start right now to fix it, fixing it will take even longer than that.

More information here:

http://profend.com/global-warming/

Lots of numerical scientific data proving it real here:

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

http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

There are a very few skeptical scientists.  But 99+% of scientists around the world believe global warming is real and mostly caused by us.  And any number of very distinguished people, too.

"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 and the first Commander of the Naval Space Command

"There's a better scientific consensus on this [climate change] than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics.  Global warming is almost a no-brainer at this point,You really can't find intelligent, quantitative arguments to make it go away."

Jerry Mahlman, NOAA

Good website for more info:

http://profend.com/global-warming

Answer 3

Actually, I think it is just the normal variation in temperature. Just a few short years ago they were talking about the coming ice age. I don't think there is any reason to panic. Besides the changes that we would have to make to supposedly "fix" it would cost trillions of dollars and have virtually no effect. A lot of the fixes are welfare for 3rd world countries. I'm not a scientist, but I am a thinker.

Answer 4

Global warming is the theory that the buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is trapping the sun's heat, causing a perpetual but gradual increase in temperatures around the world.  It's been in effect for decades already, and is forecasted to become steadily worse for the forseeable future.

This theory is contrasted by the notion that carbon dioxide is not the only thing that could be causing this problem, and research into the full scope of potential causes is necessary before arriving at the conclusion that the planet is getting warmer.

Read both sides of the argument, and judge for yourself.

Answer 5

The earth has been warming up slightly over the past 150 years - about 1-2F.

Answer 6

No offense to you but- WHAT is the school system teaching these days......Global warming is the warming of the earth, we now are gradually getting too much sunlight which is causing more water to evaporate and worsen storms, make warm places warmer and changes the equators warmth to make horrible tidal waves and such. It is taking affect every single day, and every second you breath.

Answer 7

plain and simple? it is a catch phrase, like wheres the beef or everything tastes better with bluebonnet on it, phrases or slogans used in marketing to get you to buy what the people that use them are selling, use effectively will get your emotions involved and make you want to knock over your mom and baby to just have a piece of what they are selling, they will be mean to you for not paying attention or listening to their sales pitch and label you a something less than human piece of garbage, again the pressure to get your emotions involved, that practice was once used by the snake salesman of the early 1800's here in america- pushing their vodoo remedies for cures, but as for your question, there is one thing you can take to the bank on this global warming marketing, you will know them by the fruites of their labor, the more they try to fire you up with their one liners and this is this and this is that speeches on the warming, take a step back and look at the whole picture- fear is a good way of making you buy what they have for sale, besides they need fuel for their jets and to heat and cool huge homes, by making this a cleaner and less warmer climated place we live on? no so their bank accounts wont go cold..... that would be the effect of the affect of the global warming slogan people.....  you will see this from both sides so be aware when your heart rate goes up that they havent got you going to mcdonalds to find out where the beef is...... good ol common sense goes a long way in making this a better place for all of us, them included

HAND have a nice day

Answer 8

it WONT happen. dont belive the political lies. they said it would happen in the 70s and california and new york would be underwater by now by the ice caps meltinb because of the Co2 level--but hello! Firstly, no one talks about how they USED to talk about it cause it didnt happen, and secondly, carbon dioxide helps the planet cause plants turn it into oxygen and the earth is just going threw cycles.

Some years its really warm, other times its reallly cold. How do they explain the ice age melting away? Cars!? HA HA!

People dont know, there just trying to scare you. Dont worry about a thing.

TRUST ME i wouldnt say this if it wasnt true cause if there was global warming i would want to know what i could do to stop it to. But thats not the case.

HAVE A GOOD DAY

Answer 9

The theory of man-made global warming is false.  Anyone who believes otherwise has not investigated the evidence or is purposely remaining ignorant to the legitimate opposition to global warming.  I have given up an one and a half hours to watch “An Inconvenient Truth” so I ask you to do the same and watch the movie detailing the opposition.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...  

Another general resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warm...

CO2 is not causing the globe to warm the opposite is true, the warming is increasing the atmospheric CO2.  When the world heats it gradually increases the temperature of the oceans which serve as the largest CO2 sink.  As the oceans heat up they release CO2 which is stored in them.  The information comes from the same data Al Gore uses, the temperature always goes up before the concentration of CO2 goes up.

http://www.lavoisier.com.au/papers/artic...

CO2 makes up only .03% of our atmosphere.  Water vapor, another greenhouse gas, makes up 1-4% of our atmosphere, this gas is acknowledged to be the main greenhouse gas.  All human activities combined contribute only 6 Gigatons of CO2 to the atmosphere each year.  Animals, through respiration, decomposition, etc contribute 150 Gigatons of CO2 to the atmosphere.  So humans contribute only a small amount of CO2 to the atmosphere which is already in very small concentrations in the atmosphere.

http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/science.html This is where my data came from, it is an interesting site, it displays the same graphics as Al Gore in his movie but it tells how low the human contribution is.  So Al Gore is using the same data but coming to a different conclusion, who do you want to believe a politician with no scientific training or the NASA CO2 laboratory, a group of scientists who spend their entire careers studying CO2.

We know the greenhouse effect is real it is a necessary effect to keep our planet at a habitable temperature.  However if our current warming is due to greenhouse gasses it would cause warming in the troposphere , but the troposphere is actually getting cooler.

http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/temperature... That points to other explanations to our current warming.

So what is causing our current warming, it is the sun.

http://web.dmi.dk/solar-terrestrial/spac...

http://www.aip.org/enews/physnews/2003/s...

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/06...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/...

The fact that only the earth’s surface is warming points to direct heating from the sun rather than heating due to greenhouse gasses.  Also other planets in our solar system are warming pointing to a common cause of warming, that common cause being the sun.

http://www.livescience.com/environment/0...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/sola...

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/sola...

The global warming crowd says our glaciers are melting and animals will suffer this is another false claim.

http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2Sci...

http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA235.htm...

http://www.worldclimatereport.com/

The global warming crowd also claims a scientific consensus on the issue, this is wrong in two ways.  One, there is no consensus, this is a false claim to make you believe in global warming by suppressing the opposition.  http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm

Second, even if there was a consensus it would mean nothing, science is not politics, you don’t vote on theories to determine their legitimacy.

Here’s 21 pages of websites that disagree with global warming.

http://www.climatechangedebate.org/docum...

The thought that the only scientists who disagree with global warming are paid by oil companies is simply a stupid statement with no reality.  This is the most illogical argument by people in support of global warming.  Aside from being completely false it begs another question: Who pays global warming supporters?  The answer is big environmental agencies that make millions off of global warming each year by teaching, publishing books, and selling environmentally clean products.  

The IPCC is the main supporter of global warming, their statements are defended blindly by people who don’t want to admit that global warming is not real.  People will claim that they took into account natural sources of CO2, they didn’t.  Take a look for yourself:

http://www.ipcc.ch/activity/srccs/index....  That is the latest IPCC report, read the entire report, do a search of the documents, there is absolutely no mention of natural sources of CO2.  The natural sources have been completely ignored.  Also people will claim that the IPCC took the sun into account in their report, this is not entirely correct, while the sun is mentioned the report it’s effects have not been accurately represented.

http://www.john-daly.com/forcing/moderr....  The IPCC did not take into account the Svensmark factor.  This would greatly reduce the effect of solar radiation on the earth.  Look back up to the solar resources to see the effect of the sun correctly represented.

Also allegations have been by IPCC scientists who disagreed with the IPCC statements.  They say that their research was censored or taken out of the IPCC report.  This is not the first time the IPCC has lied, they forged the famous “hockey stick” graph, which later resulted in a reissuing of the IPCC report.

Here’s another source that disagrees with the IPCC: http://rpc.senate.gov/_files/Sept1004Glo...

And another: http://www.sepp.org/Archive/NewSEPP/ipcc...

And another: http://www.john-daly.com/guests/un_ipcc....

Quotes form politicians, CEO’s, and others are not proof of global warming, they issue these statements to get votes and customers.  Scientists are able to get published and get time on the media by supporting global warming.  The IPCC continually lies and misrepresents data so they keep their jobs.  

In regards to the precautionary principle that says we can only help if we switch over to alternative energy, this idea is not correct.  While this may seem legitimate it only helps the first world, third world countries can not afford to switch to the more expensive energy options.  Also the US currently spends 4 billion dollars a year on global warming research which could be better spent on research for disease or to fight poverty.  For an excellent example of how the precautionary principle is harmful you do not need to look further than DDT.  This pesticide was cheap and incredibly effective but it was banned because of it harmful effects on egg shells.  Now thousands of people die every year in third world countries because of malaria, a disease that could be easily controlled with DDT.

I hope anyone who believes in global warming they will take a look at the resources I provided.  These resources should convince you that global warming is not man-made, it is caused by cycles in the earths climate.  If you are not convinced I hope you at least take a new look at global warming as an unproven idea.  Remember that global warming is big business for anyone who aligns themselves with it.

I could not go this entire post without mentioning global cooling.  In the 1970’s it was claimed that there was a consensus on the fact that the world was headed into an ice age.  We have seen once before how damaging a false claim about our climate change can be to our world.  Most of the global warming crowd does not want you to know about this scare because it is so similar to the scare today.  Government panels were formed and claimed the world was headed to an ice age, evidence poured in supporting the claim, a consensus was claimed, then the whole issue just faded away.  That is what will happen with the false scare of global warming.

Answer 10

watch the movie "the inconvinient truth" w/ al gore.. you can get it at any video store. it tells you so much about the topic. it is a good movie! it will change your perspective on th eissue.

global warming is currently in effect.