What is your view on global warming?

Question

Honestly i do not belive in this but it would be nice to see what other people have to say

Answer 1

a ice berg which was alive for millions of years have been melted recently due to the increasing temperatures....

the temp increase made a lot of forest fires in USA and Australian countries...

large number of floods in all parts of the world...

polar bears have been striving for their lives...

in Antarctica, where we think no one lives has been a place for we to produce electricity and leave out the exhaust directly into the atmosphere...

new thing - ocean foam in Australia..

what are these things..

also do u know that the warmest years were only recorded in the last decades..

then too many coast lying regions will disappear in the forthcoming years..

Florida going to vanish one day..

Maldives going to be in the sea....

Answer 2

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Let me start off by saying we (my family and I) live, 100% “off of the grid and are completely self sufficient with a 0% Carbon footprint.

One problem with global warming is that the concept is so vague in the minds of the people. The critical interpretation is basically how it’s explained in school and the news. However most of the public see global warming connected with the ozone and pollutants which cause harmful greenhouse gasses, etc. therefore investigating and fighting for things like alternative energy (ie. Solar, wind, hydrogen, ethanol, biodiesel, etc)

Greenhouse gases are real and do contribute to global warming. Think of the different gas layers like ozone (o3) that circumference the globe as the clear plastic on a greenhouse. Longer rays of light from the Sun go in and reflect off different thermal masses bouncing back and creating shorter lengths of energy that cannot exist the plastic barrier. These beams then just continue to bounce around inside the green house until they’re finally absorbed completely (some do escape but very few), thereby warming the greenhouse greatly even in cold temperatures.

Basically there are 2 ways that this reaction (or lack of) affects the planet. Global warming and global cooling.

1. as we add to the gases in the stratosphere, where the ozone layer is (Carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, etc), we add to the plastic of the greenhouse, trapping more short wave length energy and heating the earth more.

2. as we deplete the ozone (with chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs), we allow more long wave length energy, which bounces back out to space without heating any thermal masses on earth, thereby cooling the planet.

It’s pretty easy to see the results..

Melting ice sheets & glaciers

Floods & droughts

Great hurricanes & cyclones

Seasonal extremes

Seasonal phenomena’s

Species extinction

New & resurgent diseases

There are many ways to stop both global warming and cooling from accruing or at least slow them down until we can discover a way to reverse it, but Stop burning fossil fuels is the biggest.

I currently own 2 converted h2 vehicles which run on 100% hydrogen and 1 EV (electric vehicle), not to mention our home is completely off the grid, using alternative energy (solar, wind, etc)

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Answer 3

I think it is climate change and not global warming.  In the 70's "they" were saying that the earth was going to freeze over.  Now "they" are saying it is heating up.  I think scientists have their agenda and that is that they want to be publicized. Nature will balance itself out

Answer 4

Don't believe - when all this first starting reaching the feverish pitch, I simply went to the local University's climatological web site.  I checked their nice line graph of average temps since the beginning of noted temperature gathering, and saw that the "global warming" of the early 1900s more than mirrored the current push.  It also sunk deeply into a global cooling many years later.  Guess what?  The graph simply showed a peak and valley routine that the temp has been following since the earliest recorded data.  It reminded me of how when I was a high school student were were all doomed to be frozen out of our state in the coming global ice age.  

I do what I can to conserve energy and always have.  I think it is silly that people who talk the most about global warming act like they have the corner on the conservation market.  I've been inconveniencing myself because it is "good for the planet" and admittedly my pocket book a lot longer than their self-righteous selves.  So, I don't suffer any guilt not believing in the "latest" threat to our existence.

Answer 5

Its happening and if you dont think so you are either

a. an idiot

b. uneducated

c. too stupid to think for yourself

and to craigd25  your list of supposed "scientists" is nothing more than a list of journalists, economists, weathermen (lol), think tanks,,    very scientific,, yeah right

Answer 6

I'm all for it.  Humans are a tropical animal, warmer climates suit us well.  Plus we'll be able to grow more food with less effort.

Answer 7

These scientific organizations warn us that global warming is a serious threat.  I believe they're right.  

NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

National Academy of Sciences (NAS)

State of the Canadian Cryosphere (SOCC)

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Royal Society of the United Kingdom (RS)

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

American Institute of Physics (AIP)

National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

American Meteorological Society (AMS)

Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS)

Academia Brasiliera de Ciências (Bazil)

Royal Society of Canada

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Academié des Sciences (France)

Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (Germany)

Indian National Science Academy

Accademia dei Lincei (Italy)

Science Council of Japan

Russian Academy of Sciences

Royal Society (United Kingdom)

National Academy of Sciences (United States of America)

Australian Academy of Sciences

Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts

Caribbean Academy of Sciences

Indonesian Academy of Sciences

Royal Irish Academy

Academy of Sciences Malaysia

Academy Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Who (other than you) says they're not right (and what's the agenda behind that person's position)?

Answer 8

Earth has always had climate cycles. There is ZERO evidence linking this current 2 THOUSANDTH of one degree change to man...NOTHING AT ALL... ZIP... ZERO... NADA... Lot of hype and hysterics to make Al Gore rich

Nice big list...what is THEIR agenda???  And what about the list that is about 500 times bigger of scientists who disagree with it???

Pages in category "Global warming skeptics"

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List of scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming

Reason Public Policy Institute

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Khabibullo Abdusamatov

Syun-Ichi Akasofu

Claude Allègre

Augie Auer

Dennis Avery

B

Michele Bachmann

Sallie Baliunas

Johnny Ball

Timothy F. Ball

Robert Balling

Fred Barnes (journalist)

Joe Barton

Glenn Beck

David Bellamy

Tom Bethell

Robert Bidinotto

Tim Blair

Roy Blunt

Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen

Andrew Bolt

Christopher Booker

Neal Boortz

John Brignell

Reid Bryson

C

Nigel Calder

Robert M. Carter

Alan Caruba

Ian Castles

Cato Institute

Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change

George V. Chilingar

John Christy

Petr Chylek

Ian Clark

Climate Audit

Alexander Cockburn

John Coleman (meteorologist)

Competitive Enterprise Institute

Cooler Heads Coalition

Philip Cooney

Piers Corbyn

William R. Cotton

Michael Crichton

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John Lawrence Daly

Robert E. Davis (climatologist)

Chris de Freitas

David Deming

Michael J. Doherty

David Douglass

Paul Driessen (lobbyist)

Matt Drudge

Martin Durkin (television director)

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Don Easterbrook

Myron Ebell

ExxonMobil

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Steve Forbes

F cont.

Frederick Forsyth

Fraser Institute

Friends of Science

Michael Fumento

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George C. Marshall Institute

Global Climate Coalition

Vincent R. Gray

William M. Gray

Greenhouse Mafia

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Sean Hannity

Tom Harris (lobbyist)

Betsy Hart

Orrin Hatch

Heartland Institute

David Henderson (economist)

Robert Henderson (writer)

Heritage Foundation

High Park Group

Randy Hillier (politician)

Peter Hitchens

James P. Hogan (writer)

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Craig D. Idso

Keith E. Idso

Sherwood B. Idso

Andrey Illarionov

Laura Ingraham

Jim Inhofe

International Policy Network

Investor's Business Daily

Yuri Izrael

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Claus Jacobi

Zbigniew Jaworowski

Dennis Jensen

Federico Jiménez Losantos

Charles Foster Johnson

Barry Jones (executive)

Josef Joffe

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Wibjörn Karlén

William Kininmonth (meteorologist)

Václav Klaus

Ron Knapp

Gerhard Kramm

George Kukla

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Lavoisier Group

Nigel Lawson

Douglas Leahey

David Legates

Marcel Leroux

Rush Limbaugh

Richard Lindzen

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Ian Macfarlane (politician)

Tibor R. Machan

Jennifer Marohasy

Ilana Mercer

Patrick Michaels

Steven Milloy

Forrest Mims

Chris Mitchell

Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

M cont.

Patrick Moore (environmentalist)

Hugh Morgan (Australian businessman)

Luboš Motl

Tad Murty

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National Center for Policy Analysis

Natural Resources Stewardship Project

Ondřej Neff

Nils-Axel Mörner

O

Oregon Petition

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Camille Paglia

Tim Patterson

Benny Peiser

George Pell

Rick Perry

Melanie Phillips

Ian Plimer

Jerry Pournelle

Progress Party (Norway)

Greg Proops

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Tullio Regge

Paul Reiter

Jay Richards

Arthur B. Robinson

Dana Rohrabacher

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Sarah Scaife Foundation

Debra Saunders

Michael Savage (commentator)

James R. Schlesinger

Science & Environmental Policy Project

Science and Public Policy Institute

Scientific Alliance

Tom Segalstad

Frederick Seitz

Nir Shaviv

James Shikwati

Julian Lincoln Simon

Fred Singer

Tim Slagle

Willie Soon

Thomas Sowell

James Spann

Roy Spencer

Chauncey Starr

Mary Starrett

Peter Stilbs

John Stossel

Philip Stott

Brian Sussman

Henrik Svensmark

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Hendrik Tennekes

V

Jan Veizer

W

The Wall Street Journal

Peter Walsh (federal politician)

Western Fuels Association

James Whale (radio)

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Don Young

Z

Jan Zahradil

Miloš Zeman

Antonino Zichichi

I guess these people ALL have some questionable agenda???  Moron

Answer 9

I am not a liberal either, although, when it comes to the environmental issues, politics should not be playing a part in this even though it seems that way in history. With this said, I skimmed  at the history of weather patterns. Listened to the wiser people around me and hear what they recall. Then if you listen to Environmentalist, Scientist, Oceanographers, ext. The answer is not at all cut and dry. If the earth axes is tilting more to the sun as they are saying then we will see the changes. As drastic as they are saying? Time is the only answer for that as well. It can only be speculations. Are we responsible for the tilt? It probably does not help.

Answer 10

God bless you for not being a liberal

Answer 11

As of today global warming we speak has help to keep the world from getting ICE. i.e., human beings has made the starting of next ICE age by more than 1 millenium because of the Greenhouse gas emmission by us the total world has saved and increas the stage of warmth and moved the start of next ICE age by more than a millenium.

Answer 12

I wonder.  Are we doing something grievously wrong that is causing the N. Pole to really melt, big time.

Does this seriously affect ocean currents?

Are we in for a season, soon to begin, with killer hurricanes?

Are the oceans poised to rise, forcing millions out of their homes world wide?

If you listen to Al Gore and others, it sounds like it is just around the corner.

The weather experts made such a big to do about inclement change last year, that I thought we were really in for it.   Then it turned out to be one of the mildest hurricane seasons ever.

Personally, I hope its a natural cyclical occurrence.

Answer 13

If it was a little warmer I wouldn't need to use as much oil to heat my house at $3 plus. Give me a little more please.