Where is the proof that golbal warming IS NOT happening?

Question

So there seems to be a lot of skeptics saying that global warming is just a hoax...but I'm wondering where the information to support that claim exists? I have seen enough scientific information supporting global warming. Can anyone provide me with convincing evidence that it isn't happening? Please keep in mind, I research my sources so don't send me to some lobbyist website funded by Shell. Thanks!

Answer 1

Well, let's see.

First we've been in an ice age for 3 million years. In ice ages there are things called interglacial periods of melting that last around 30,000 years, we're 10,000 years into one. In approximately 20,000 years we will be in another glacial period, the last lasted 100,000 years. And then an interglacial period, and a glacial period, etc. until the Earth's orbit works it out and this ice age is as much history as the last 3.

So if you can back-up that man caused the last glacial period, that was a 100,000 years ago, while we "existed" and polluted the world during the last interglacial period, then more power to you. But you may just stumble upon the fact that warming and cooling are affects of our orbit and the sun that occur normally, we are, after all, IN AN ICE AGE!!

Answer 2

You still don't get it do you.  The burden of proof is on those who propose a hypothesis, not on those who doubt it.  This is how science works and until you realize this you cannot claim to understand science at all.

Answer 3

The question is not whether or not the earth is warming. The question is what is causing the slight rise in the earth's temperature. There a a lot of scientists that say the earth warms and cools over long periods through natural weather patterns. There have been very cold periods and very warm periods. Global warming has become a political issue. Is man causing the earth to warm or are we going through a normal, natural warning cycle? I don't know.

Answer 4

There isn't any proof.

Answer 5

The evidence is all around you.  It hasn't gotten any warmer.

Answer 6

it isn't happenng because if it was then i'd go round killing people for fun

Answer 7

You can believe NASA as Dr. Jello presented.  Or you can believe the 17,200 scientists listed at this site...

Answer 8

We can see by this chart from NASA that the temperatures remained relatively constant for the last 10 years, and now we are in a cooling trend.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs...

If you don't believe NASA, who would you believe?

Answer 9

People are just scared that there actually is global warming, and that if we don't take action right, right now, that we will all die. They are hiding behind flimsy beliefs that have no evidence, and will defend these beliefs with vehemency. How could there not be global warming? Think about it... Humans have been polluting the earth for centuries, pouring our toxic wastes, and carbon emissions out by millions of tons each year! How could there not be consequences? The earth can only hold so much CO2, and now, because we have not thought into the future as a race because we are greedy and selfish, we are seeing some consequences, global warming.

Answer 10

There is no such evidence.

Some global warming deniers will argue that global warming suddenly vanished.  This is because January 2008 was a relatively cool month because we're at the peak of a strong La Nina cycle right now.  Of course, 2007 was one of the hottest years on record, and as soon as the current La Nina cycle is over temperatures will return to normal, but right now many are arguing that global warming has disappeared because they don't understand the difference between weather and climate.

Others will argue that the planet hasn't warmed since 1998, which is the same error.  1998 was an extremely strong El Nino cycle year, so it was the hottest year on record.  The fact that the planet hasn't had a single year hotter than 1998 doesn't mean it hasn't warmed.  Again that's confusing weather with climate.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs...

Others will admit the planet is warming, but either claim it's natural or that we don't know what's causing the warming.  This is simply wrong.  There are many basic scientific facts which can only be explained if the current global warming is being caused by an increased greenhouse effect due to carbon dioxide accumulating in the atmosphere from humans burning fossil fuels.

For example, the planet is warming as much or more during the night than day.  If the warming were due to the Sun, the planet should warm a lot more during the day when the Sun has influence.  Greenhouse gases trap heat all the time, so they warm the planet regardless of time of day.  Another example is that the upper atmosphere is cooling because the greenhouse gases trap the heat in the lower atmosphere.  If warming were due to the Sun, it would be warming all layers of the atmosphere.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

In short, there is no proof that golbal warming is not happening

Answer 11

The glaciers are shrinking at a phenomenal rate. There is no denying that. The better question is WHY is this happening, and why the level of panic. To assume that humans are the cause is incredibly arrogant. It almost sounds like the "fact" that the earth was the center of the universe that was common knowledge 1000 years ago. The sun rises and sets without us moving it along, and I am certain life will continue as it always has despite the climate change. Those forms of life that can adapt to change will continue and those that cannot will die die out. It has been this way since time began.

The Earth is a dynamic system where the only consistency is change. For some reason, boneheads like Al Gore cannot seem to accept that.

Answer 12

I'm with ya, sister...

Answer 13

The only thing I can see that gives them evidence that world is heating up,  Is the icebergs melting.  They only say what could happen in the future, not what IS happening.  Go put some ice in a glass of water and see if it doesn't melt.  All  ice will eventually melt

Answer 14

We all know the planet's been warming since the last Ice Age...it never stopped warming.  The skeptics don't think we saved the world from the last Ice Age with our use of fossil fuels.

Answer 15

of course there is global warming, the question is how much is caused by humans or by the natural evolution of the Earth?

Answer 16

I always love it when Dr Jello puts up these carefully selected links, because anyone with half a brain (and a working pair of eyes) can see that:

1) It only goes back to 1998, making it virtually irrelevant in the context of world average temperatures over the last couple of hundred years.

2) If you go to the NASA page before it, which contains all the actual charts (you can do this by just chopping off the /Fig.C.txt in the web browser address line) and their descriptions, you can see the global average temperature charts above it going back to 1880, clearly showing the average temperature rises.

3) You'll note that on the y axis of the graph the figures don't actually go into the negative at all. There is a good reason for this - the chart shows the mean temperature anomalies or changes, and they are positive.

Likewise, in the actual table Jello links to, the temperature anomalies are all positive, so how he can imply this is a "cooling trend" is pretty bizarre. You'd get an "F" grade in high school math or science for saying something like that, even if you were just talking about the temperature change in a toasted bagel.

I'll leave it to your imagination as to whether you think Jello is being entirely sincere with his "data" or not.

But apart from that, I'm afraid I can't answer your question, because I follow the sciences closely and haven't seen any convincing evidence that global warming is not a fact!

And "The Voice of Reason" still doesn't get it! There is no "proof" in science at all. "Proof" is for mathematicians. Scientific theories stand or fall on the weight of evidence. If the evidence is against, they are modified to account for the new evidence, or they are discarded and a new theory is formed. There is no "proof" how or why gravity works (it is still a theory). There is no "proof" in quantum mechanics (it is still a theory). There is no "proof" in general relativity (it is still a theory). Etc etc etc etc.