What is your best argument for or against global warming?

Question

I don't want your opinion. I want to see your arguments for or against it. Also show me evidence (if you believe it is true) that humans are or are not causing it. Thanks!

Answer 1

Humans may cause a little, but global warming is ultimately caused by an increase in solar radiation. The sun makes things hot, not the  0.04% of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Here is an article from a Harvard Newspaper:

http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/1997/...

Answer 2

My argument is... Read what other people have said about the subject of global warming. Really, there are other people SMARTER than AL Gore doing research on this stuff.

The founder of the Weather Channel is one.

Global Warming is NOT our FAULT, period!

Answer 3

Well, TB.

Nobody can, really.  Nobody knows absolutely for sure.  That's why opposing theories exist.

http://www.stuffintheair.com/global-warm...

And economic supporters of each conclusion put money where their mouth is.

But that does not change reality, does it?

Answer 4

I've summarized the science in the link below.  It's too long to summarize here, but take a look.

Answer 5

For decades, environmentalism has been the Left's best excuse for increasing government control over our actions in ways both large and small. It's for Mother Earth! It's for the children! It's for the whales!

But until now, the doomsday-scenario environmental scares they've trumped up haven't been large enough to give the sinister prize they want most of all: total control of American politics, economic activity, and even individual behavior.

With global warming, however, greenhouse gasbags can argue that auto emissions in Ohio threaten people in Paris, and that only global government can tackle such problems.

National sovereignty? Democracy?

Forget it: global warming has now brought the Left closer to global government, statism, and the eradication of individual rights than it has ever been before.

Answer 6

The ice core samples used to show historic CO2 levels CLEARLY show CO2 levels FOLLOW temperature change, not cause it.

Historic solar activity data, collected over the last 400 years, clearly shows a link between solar activity and climate change.  Less solar activity results in global cooling, more solar activity results in global warming.  It's no coincidence the latest warming trend mirrors the strongest solar activity seen in over a thousand years (commonly referred to as "The Modern Maximum").

Edit (Bob):  In the Ice Core samples, CO2 levels continued to rise and peaked 800 years AFTER temperatures fell into the following Ice Ages.  Even if something else is causing CO2 levels to rise more than expected, it doesn't turn CO2 into a CAUSE of temperature rise, as it didn't keep temperatures from FALLING in the past.  And you can STATE solar activity doesn't affect climate much, but you will be doing so in contradiction of the historical evidence.  Being unable to deduce HOW the two are linked doesn't mean the link doesn't exist.

Answer 7

The following is actually evidence that global warming is mostly caused by us.

"The ice core samples used to show historic CO2 levels CLEARLY show CO2 levels FOLLOW temperature change, not cause it."

CO2 is both a cause of warming (Greenhouse effect) and an effect of warming, since warmer ocean waters can't hold as much CO2 and release it.

There WAS a lag between temperature and CO2 in past warmings, because CO2 was mostly an effect, but NOT THIS TIME.  THIS TIME CO2 and temperature are going up together because CO2 is mostly a cause.

"Solar activity" (sunspots) doesn't affect temperature much.  Solar radiation (also known as solar forcing) does.  And solar radiation has been decreasing while temperature is going up.  Proof:

"Recent oppositely directed trends in solar

climate forcings and the global mean surface

air temperature", Lockwood and Frolich (2007), Proc. R. Soc. A

doi:10.1098/rspa.2007.1880

http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/media/pro...

News article at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6290228.st...

The full proof is way too long for here, it's mostly in the links below.

"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...

Here's the best short proof, from the prestigious National Academy of Sciences.  You need Adobe Acrobat Reader (free download) to read it.

http://dels.nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/clim...

And a Christian view:

http://christiansandclimate.org/concerne...

Answer 8

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GLOBAL WARMING!!! Not too long ago, there were scientists saying we were all going to die over global cooling! Once they figured out they were wrong, they decided to make up global warming! Politicians (mainly liberals such as Al Gore) make it up. 70 years ago when people were going crazy over "global cooling" were using the EXACT same facts, but they changed the temperatures saying it was going to be an Ice Age instead of a big ball of fire!

Answer 9

The evidence against AGW is in every history text I have ever read. Also every geography, geology, chemistry and metrology text used in grade, middle, high schools and collage. Because AGW is a new theory from unrecognized people with no supporting evidence it is up to them to produce evidence of their theory and find other researchers that can produce equivalent results by their own methods from the same data. This they can not do and so they have turned to the normal means of the con man, a heavy media blitz to the undereducated to force their way.

Answer 10

The needless use of scare tactics is enough for me.

You get people to do many of the same things by telling them that if they do certain things it will save them money or help them lose weight.

But then I remember who I am talking about.