What is your view on global warming and what is your political party?

Question

No using other people as sources I want to know what it is for you.

Answer 1

I believe global warming to be a serious issue that was caused by humans.  It needs attention and it IS getting worse.

I'm a democrat.

Answer 2

I've been a Republican for the last 25 years.  Like Ronald Reagan I was one of the majority of Conservatives who left the Democratic Party because of the "restructuring" of the Primary and Convention process during the McGovern campaign and what has followed.  I'm reluctantly forced to switch back to the Democrats this year, as I suspect many others with my political views will be doing.  The anti-science positions adopted by the Bush Administration, often in defiance of the Law is one reason.  The Global Warming DENIER/skeptic nonsense is just one example of these.  Involving the American people in an unwinnable civil war using a pack of lies is equally a cause of my concern.  The Administration has at this point killed more Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan than Bin Laden ever dreamed of.  The Nation has barely begun to pay the price for this.  He has effectively silenced mainstream Republicans and Nazified the party with a gang of fringe individuals who make Hitler look like the President of Greenpeace.

Anthropogenic Global Warming has been considered scientific fact for more than a hundred years.  Questions about that issue don't deserve the dignity of a response.

Answer 3

I do not believe that humans will cause catastrophic climate change.  I do not have any loyalty to any party, and tend to gravitate to the centre and vote for the candidate and not the party.  Since I do not live in the states I cannot vote, but in general I root for the Democratic candidates.  I was actually a big admirer of Al Gore.

Answer 4

global warming is caused by sun spots, not Co2. if it was, we would have had bigger problems much sooner. I am an independent.

Answer 5

My opinion is that "global warming" is not real. "Global warming, but also cooling" maybe. A lot of people say that the planet is getting warmer, but where I live, it's getting colder. So real or not, the term "global warming" is biased toward the more frightening tempurature range (heat) and incorrect. As for my political party, I haven't one. Some would call me a n**i since I believe in throwing insane street walker people who contribute nothing in prison. Others would call me a bleeding heart liberal. Really, I'm more of a "Libertarian"

Although I see no signs of the planet getting warmer, I sure wish it was. I like the heat. And if the planet's temp did rise 10-20 degrees, it wouldn't bother me. I would adapt no problem, certain puny animals wouldn't. It's called evolution - get used to it or die.

Answer 6

Global warming is a hoax. I'm a Republican.

Answer 7

i believe that it's an issue that needs to have more attention.  i consider myself independent.  i was raised in a republican household, but can go either way on issues.

Answer 8

If you ignore the very few scientific skeptics many of whom seem to come from Eastern Europe lately, what’s with that!

There is the rise in Co2 the observed melt of glaciers round the world the recorded rise in sea level and the fact humans release 30 billion tons of cO2 a year into the atmosphere, the last alone should be enough proof we are adding to Co2 levels, Volcanoes only produce ~200-240 millions tons.

And for the record the SOHO satellite which monitors the Sun and has for 12 years has recorded no change in it’s output, that would be strong enough to cause the warming we have had, in fact it was slightly declining through most of the warming period although deniers mention solar output a lot they never mention SOHO as it disproves the solar link theory completely.

polly-ticks - Nil

Answer 9

Humans are the primary cause of the current global warming.

I arrived at this conclusion based on the scientific evidence, because I'm a scientist.  I'm also an environmentalist and Green Party member.

Answer 10

Currently, we are experiencing  a noticeable warming of earth due to an increase in the greenhouse effect caused by greenhouse gases, produced by human industry and agriculture.

(Animal fecal matter produces double the amount of carbon emissions than automobile use  Eating a non-vegetarian diet hurts the environment since animal waste causes double the amount of carbon emissions than cars.  Half the rainforests in the world have been destroyed to clear ground to graze cattle to make beef burgers. The burning of the forests contributes 20% of all green-house gases. Roughly 1,000 species a year become extinct because of the destruction of the rainforests. Approximately 60 million people a year die of starvation. All those lives could be saved because those people could eat grain used to fatten cattle and other farm animals - if Americans ate 10% less meat.)

(The world's fresh water shortage is being made worse by animal farming. And meat producers are the biggest polluters of water. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce one pound of meat. If the US meat industry wasn't supported by the taxpayer paying a large proportion of its water costs, then hamburger meat would cost $35 a pound.)

The outlook is grim, indeed.  Increased sea level and flooding caused by melting glaciers is just some of the fun things that we can look forward to.  Unfortunately, as history will clearly illustrate, humankind’s greed and laziness will be our demise.

I am a limousine liberal who drives a Prius.  I am a democrat.

Answer 11

Independent - If you have views or opinions, well, that just isn't science.  That's political.

Real science is objective.  You can look into the numbers.  Numbers are pure and transcend politics, and beliefs, and never lie.

Answer 12

Most of the scientists who study climate change either work for Government organizations or Universities and earn only about the same as a mid level public servant, most have PhD’s and could easily switch to the public sector or the military, which both are crying out for scientists, and pay far more. There is no conspiracy and scientists as a group have a long history of ostracizing anyone found to be faking results. There is no logic to the argument that scientists are some how in on a conspiracy as most of the world scientists think this is happening, the list of scientists opposing it 17000 or 19500 is complete BS like the recent New York climate conference which could only manage a handful of the “the usual suspects” who had any sort of scientific qualification.

Political party, neither - their both as bad as each other!

Answer 13

Just like this question, man-made global warming is BS.  I am a Republocrat.

Answer 14

Global warming is occurring and almost certainly most of that over the past 50 years is a direct result of human activities (e.g. land clearing, fossil fuel burning, etc.).  I came to this conclusion by reading the scientific literature (not from Al Gore, personal blogs, or by listening to talk radio) for several years.

For most of my adult life I voted Republican, but in recent years I've started identifying myself as an Independent.  The Republicans have become too divisive and what we need is solutions, not inflexible ideology.