Pamela Meno: Yes. I believed in the global warming because its too hot in the environment.
Hipolito Rightmire: Reduced Solar Radiation and an El Nina
Ester Bryand: DeusExMachina, I responded to some of what you said in your question: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200708...And, as I said in that post, please respond in public. I'm glad if others can see any eventual flaws in my statements.
Lynn Mctier: It is interdisciplinary. Look at the IPCC report authors to see the wide range of fields. Probably the largest numbers are scientists with degrees or advanced training in physics and/or chemistry. But global warming effects other disciplines significantly as well, such as biology, and many outside the traditional sciences too, notably engineering and economics.
Ardath Templer: there is no way that they can calculate global warming is happening. they are looking at a very limited scale of time. there is no way to do it. they would have t! o know how hot it was 1,000 years ago, if there is a climate change it would not be as dangerous as the news says or anyone else says. as far as I'm concerned it is another attempt for the media to control our minds
Toshia Metzker: The earth may be warming, but i don't think humans are the cause. Nature produces more CO2 than us... and the CO2 levels have been shown to be related to solar flares. There is a bunch of proof that shows that global warming is natural and the earth has been warming and cooling for as long as we can calculate.
Sena Highman: Increased CO2 levels contribute to Climate Change, not simply Global Warming. This means more extremes, more swings, and more unseasonable weather. Global Warming / Climate Change doesn't really say anything about the weather at any particular time. Additionally, different feedback cycles can have outcomes other then what is expected by the layman. You would think that Global Warming would cause easier winters! , however warmer weather tends to produce more snow since warm! er air holds more moisture.Also, the planetary cycles that some people are talking about is real, but expected to act on a 10,000 year cycle at most - more likely a 100,000 year cycle. Shorter term changes are believed to be caused by feedback or CO2 forcing. Other planets aren't showing the same increases in temperature to reflect a massive change in the output of the sun either....Show more
Chet Nozick: No one should 'believe' or 'disbelieve'. With science something either 'is' or 'is not'.If you claim something exist, then you should show proof that it exists.
Hwa Waterford: La NiñaThe equatorial winds in the Pacific drive warm surface waters West. This causes upwelling of cold deep water near South America, which then spreads westward along the equator.You can see the pattern of cold water here:http://ingrid.ldeo.columbia.edu/maproom/.ENSO/SST_......Show more
Jade Ohno: I do not only believe in global warming but I've also seen what is happening be! cause of it.
Claude Gloden: Like geology it's an earth science. It involves chemistry and physics, and the impacts of climate change involve ecology. People working on climate change can have backgrounds in climate related sciences themselves (such as meteorology etc) or any of these fields (which commonly coincide under the umbrella of environmental science) or be a specialist in statistics, software development etc. But if you want to study it at uni, generally it'll be taught in the earth sciences department or be part of an environmental science major. Many unis offer climate science as a major these days. Ironic sagebush used the word "witchcraft"... he is a creationist lol!!! I thought they stopped using that word for things they didn't like, now they say things like "teach the controversy" instead....Show more
Luis Farlow: Man... Reading this is like listening to Dick Cheney on fox news.There is no "belief" in science! You can only review the scientific f! indings and write a peer review, thus coming to a conclusion of agreein! g or arguing against it. THE OVERWHELMING NUMBER OF PEER REVIEWS ON CLIMATE CHANGE DUE TO INCREASED CARBON EMISSIONS IS IN AGREEMENT WITH THAT THEORY. Now there are two important terms in that statement, one is "peer review" and the other is "theory". Peer review, is just that- other scientists in the same or related fields who are qualified to do so. Theory means that the hypothesis has been repeated with the same conclusion since it was first proposed in 1896....Show more
Charis Deguzman: because it's true
Hai Biggart: It's not about belief, it's about checking the facts and understanding the physics. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is steadily increasing. Simple bookkeeping will show that mankind burns enough fossil fuel each year to produce about twice as much CO2 as shows up in the atmospheric increase.CO2 is a greenhouse gas, it traps heat in the atmosphere that would otherwise escape to space. This adds up to manmade global warming. The Intergovernment! al Report on Climate Change is a summary of scientific knowledge about the problem, it includes references on why scientists have confidence in what they know and an executive summary for non-scientists. Wikipedia also has an excellent article.If you prefer not to check facts enough to form your own intelligent opinion, you have a choice as to where to put your faith. Thousands of scientists in multiple disciplines, including every national scientific body in the world and numerous Nobel Prize winners are telling you that global climate change is real and of crisis proportions. You can believe that all of them are incompetent in their work or members of a conspiracy to (take your pick) steal our money, turn us socialist, or force us into Gaia worship and a retreat to the Stone Age. Alternatively, you can believe that these scientists are doing their job, warning us of a clear and present danger, and those who want you to ignore the scientists are grinding their own axes.I'm! not relying on belief. I know the physics. I did my own research, I ch! ecked the math. I know manmade global warming is a clear and present danger.
Tory Clapper: In the case of *(actual)* climate change (which is a normal and recurring feature of our planet), the appropriate sciences would be meteorology and climatology.In the case of anthropogenic climate change (which is the politician's version that uses a normal and recurring feature of our planet for personal gain), the appropriate sciences would be:psychology, political science, economics.
Miguel Densley: Ice ages, and inter-glacial periods, are triggered by small changes in earth's orbit, which astronomers call Milankovitch cycles, and climatologists call "orbital forcing." Since earth's orbit can be computed for thousands of years into the past and future, we know that orbital forcing peaked 6000 years ago during the "Holocene Maximum" and has been slowly cooling the planet since then. Here's the reference:http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/207...The south pole ! of Mars appears to be warming, but there is no such evidence for the north pole of Mars. This is probably a regional effect rather than a global effect. The weather on Mars is dominated by dust storms far more than solar effects in any case.http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005...There are at least two "smoking gun" lines of evidence that show that the greenhouse effect on earth is increasing:1) If the greenhouse effect is increasing, the amount of energy earth gets from the sun stays the same, but the distribution of that energy changes: more heat is trapped near the surface, which means less heat makes it to the stratosphere. So if the greenhouse effect is increasing, the stratosphere should be cooling. And this is exactly what's been happening since radiosonde weather balloons have been taking measurements. Here's the data:http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/temp/sterin/sterin.ht...2) If the greenhouse effect is increasing, nighttime radiative cooling should be mor! e strongly suppressed than any other single measure -- meaning that nig! httime lows should be rising faster than daytime highs. That means the daily temperature range should be getting narrower as temperatures rise. And again, this is exactly what's been happening. Here are the references:http://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-ab...http://www.bom.gov.au/bmrc/clfor/cfstaff/jma/2004G...http://tyndall.webapp1.uea.ac.uk/publications/work...If you think the evidence isn't there, then you haven't seen the evidence....Show more
Victor Macallister: As far as I know, there isn't any requirement that you believe in global warming. Both the ice age in Europe and the weather on Mars fall well within the known statistical models, without any human related issues being included.There are two features of global warming that do not fall within those models.1) Ice is melting (fast) that has not melted since the continents formed, prior to the dinosaurs and all of the ice ages.2) Atmospheric CO2 is reaching levels not seen since prior to the ev! olution of life.The fact that BOTH of these things began following human industrialization AND that the quantities of CO2 production predicted for the industrialization at each stage closely matches the observed amounts AND the temperature rise is the amount predicted for those quantities of CO2 levels all fit together consistently to suggest causality (or "global warming" if you prefer).in that they CANNOT be predicted by any model without including human activity....Show more
Donnell Mollo: There is also the Milankovitch cycle to consider. This is where the variations in the orbit of the earth and the wobble of the axis of rotation mean that different amounts of the sun's energy reach the earth.Variations in global temperature match this cycle very closely over millions of years.The present cooling has confirmed my suspicion that the role of carbon dioxide in our climate has been substantially over-exaggerated. It has an effect, but it is only one factor in many.L! istening to the politicians and media, one gets the impression that CO2! is the only significant factor controlling our climate, and this is simply nonsensehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles...Show more
Joni Ziak: Pseudo-science.
Willis Liburd: The list is extensive and since this is off the top of my head, my list is only partial:Solar physics: Studying the processes and activity of the SunThermal physics: Applying the laws of thermodynamics to the atmosphere and oceansAtmospheric physics: Studying the physical processes of the atmosphereHydrology: Studying the physical processes of the oceans and water cyclesGeology: Studying geological processes like the carbon cyclePaleoclimatology: Studying Earth's climate of the past (perhaps part of Geology)Statistics: Applying statistical methods to climate data seriesChemistry: The study of the properties of molecules and interactions of gasses in the atmosphere (e.g. CO2, water vapor, methane, etc.)Biology: Study of the effect of climate on living organismsCosmology:! The effect of natural phenomena on the Earth's climate like cosmic raysComputer Modeling: The application of atmosphere processes in a computer modelMeteorology: The study of weather systems and atmospheric physical processesAstronomy: The study of astronomical effects on climate like the Milankovitch cycles In addition to those, there probably many sub disciplines within each of those plus many that overlap. Like I said, I probably forgot a few but that should be a pretty good start....Show more
Mauro Cowee: remember that childhood story about the ants story food for the winter and the stupid grasshopper that mocked the ants for working so hard,....yeah your the grasshopper
Faviola Dewire: "I'm open to belief in Global Warming, but the evidence isn't there. Why?"An interesting statement. Can you support it?
Eldridge Rieves: It's true that the earth goes through natural warming trends. But what is alarming is the huge increase in warming within a s! hort time span (in terms of the earth's life time). The surge in rising! temperatures the earth has been experiencing over the past century or even over the past few decades is not normal, and not natural. Which means really, the only thing left to blame the climate change on is us. Most respected and objective scientific bodies agree that global warming is occurring, and that it will very likely be a big problem. They just don't agree on how fast warming will continue or when the problem will come to a head....Show more
Brittney Inabnit: Because Algore and the pocket protector crowd said so. They're always right half the time.
Anibal Katayama: Political
Barrett Alosa: Um.... Cindy? Do we have to chip them out? Can't we just leave them?
Jorge Detlefs: each and each of the scientific info looks to tutor that the planet is experiencing a warming section. The question is whether or no longer people have something to do with it. i in my opinion have hassle with the asteroid result theory of the excellent dinosaur extinctio! n. it somewhat is no longer supported by employing the fossil checklist. There would desire to be a distinctive geologic stratum packed crammed with dinosaur bones and a stratum in the present day above it with none in any respect. there have been a minimum of 5 substantial extinctions that scientists comprehend of. 5 asteroids? no longer too probably....Show more
Rufus Plough: First of all, Global Warming is not global warming. I believe in global warming...that the earth is in a warming trend. That is undeniable. (Although the severity of the warming is being oversold by activists.)But the earth warming does not begin to prove all of Global Warming alarmists' claims. According to natural science the earth is ALWAYS either warming or cooling. According to natural science (on which Global Warming supposedly bases its authority) Europe was covered in Ice in the semi-recent past. This ice melted long before any of the supposed causes of Global Warming existed. How?Mars ! is also experiencing planatary warming. How? Man isn't there polluting ! anything..As far as greenhouse gases go...the mere coexistence of phenomena does not indicate causality. And central to a belief in Global Warming is a static view of the earth's environment. The natural world is not static.I'm open to belief in Global Warming, but the evidence isn't there. Why?...Show more
Betsey Copp: Heard a story on the news about glacier melt and how it was now being considered a meaningful indicator of climate change.I think that's because it's getting colder now, the global temperature is no longer considered a meaningful climate change indicator.
Bernie Cerra: You should "believe" because you'll feel better about your lower standard of living, higher taxes, and loss of lifestyle when the eco-nuts and their liberal allies "carbon offset" you into the poorhouse.
Maritza Ebanks: Currently the earth is not warming, which is due to lack of sunspot activity. As for Man made Global warming, in 1974 Time Magazine was predicting an Ice Age! !http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,9...The UK High Court ruled “Inconvenient Truth†contained “Nine Key Scientific†errors? The judge also ruled the movie was politically partisan and thus, not an impartial scientific analysis of climate change. The judge ruled it, a "political film" not a movie about science!http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/3310137...The Russians admit Global Warming data from Russia was manipulated by UK Scientists.http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/...Swiss Scientists, A surge in sunshine 60 years ago helped Swiss glaciers melt faster than today (This was b/c of less cloud cover!)http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.d1adba...UK Scientists manipulate data, threaten to "beat the crap out of Pat Micheals" & talk about "how best to squeeze dissenting scientists out of the peer review process"http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/...Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out, Global ! warming appears to have stalled. http://www.spiegel.de/international/wor! ld/0,1518,6...BBC, No increase in global temperatures for the last 11 years, Oct 2009http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8299079....The Global Warming theory summarized in 1995 Kyoto IPCC Report was based upon "best guesses" and "best estimates," and as you can see from the documented proof by UK courts, Gore's movie was riddled with errors. His movie was base on those "best guesses." The "scientists" have added or subtracted data to prove their own theory, as documented in Climategate emails and the above link from Russia. The Climate gate researchers also tried to prevent other scientists from presenting any papers which opposed their view. Does any of this sound like Science? It sounds more like a group of fanatics that will say or do anything to keep their lie secret.CONSENSUS on GW??31,000 US Scientists reject GW Theoryhttp://www.petitionproject.org/700 International Scientists reject GW Theoryhttp://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAct...
Adan ! Alipio: Your wish is as good as mine.
Timmy Bustard: 1. Believe in only because you will have the chance to be naked legally.2. We on earth are at a time that our affect on the earth is a good thing since we have been entering into another ice age.3. But...You can only take off so many clothes, it's always better to find someone to cuddle with.4. I agree....Show more
Tommy Durrenberger: "the earth is in a warming trend. That is undeniable"Very true and we know this because we can plot and predict the cycles through which the Earth progresses. Just as we can take the planets and plot their past, present and future positions so too can we do the same with the cycles that cause warming or cooling. Herein lies a major problem, namely that the planet is warming much faster than any possible combination of natural cycles would permit. Indeed, the planet is warming faster now than has ever before been know. To put it into context - 19 times as fast as when the la! st ice age ended, 177 times as fast as the 10,000 years prior to the on! set of industrialisation."But the earth warming does not begin to prove all of Global Warming alarmists' claims. "The claims of the media are based on what the journalist or editor wants to publish, the claims of individuals are based on their opinions, the claims of some businesses and governments are based on agendas or what the accountants are telling them. The claims of the scientists are based on documentary evidence. Believe the scientists, ignore the others."earth is ALWAYS either warming or cooling"Yes it is, because of the cycles that both Earth and the Sun go through. There's many of them, some are long, some are short. They all interact; there are cycles within cycles etc. Sometimes the net effect is warming, sometimes cooling, never static."on which Global Warming supposedly bases its authority"There is no authority on which global warming is based other than scientific study. As with all scientific study it follows the principles of Observation, Hypothesi! s, Testing and Debate. There is no start or end point, no target or agenda, no basis upon which it is founded."was covered in Ice in the semi-recent past"Yes it was, and parts of Russia, Siberia, Asia, Canada, the US etc. The retreat of the glaciers commenced 18,000 years ago and slowed to a crawl 10,500 years ago (the time often referred to as the end of the last ice age)."This ice melted long before any of the supposed causes of Global Warming existed. How?"Natural cycles and complicated feedback mechanisms. Quite normal, has happened many times before and if the planet were left to it's own devices will happen many times in the future as well. Note the rate of change - just less than 1°C rise per 1000 years, compare that to the present rate of change of 1°C rise per 56 years."Mars is also experiencing planatary warming. How"Popular misconception. Parts of Mars are probably warming, parts are probably cooling (not enough data to draw a definite conclusion). It is ! believes the south polar ice cap is receding but the north polar ice ca! p is advancing. Globally temperatures may have increased in line with the increases experience on Earth. Most likely cause is the giant dust storms that sweep across the entire Martian surface for days or weeks at a time. Mars is incomparable to Earth or any other planet - there is virtually no atmosphere, what little exists is not remotely like our own, there are no seas or oceans, no life, average temperatures are extremely cold (the polar ice caps on Mars are frozen carbon dioxide).What we do know is that it's not the sun (contrary to the claims made by some people). We have incredibly accurate readings of solar output and the trend in recent decades is one of slight decline. Also, there are more planets and bodies in the solar system that are cooling than are warming. There is warming on other solar bodies besides Earth and Mars, each are caused by a unique set of circumstances."As far as greenhouse gases go..."The existence of them DOES indicate causality. The G! reenhouse gases have a simple chemical property that causes a physical interaction with thermal radiation - in short, they prevent heat escaping from our atmosphere. This is a good thing, if this property didn't exist the atmosphere would have no heat retaining capacity and the planet would be so cold that it would be uninhabited.Quite simple, the more greenhouse gases there are present in the atmosphere the more heat is retained."central to a belief in Global Warming is a static view of the earth's environment"I'm not aware of any climatologist, astrophysicist, meteorologist or similar that holds that Earth has a static environment, quite the contrary in fact. It's long been established and accepted that the environment is in a constant state of flux; life for the scientists would be infinitely easier if it wasn't but we're well aware that it is."I'm open to belief in Global Warming, but the evidence isn't there. Why?"The evidence is everywhere although sometimes it can ! be hard to separate fact from fiction and to establish what is reliable! evidence. In this respect I’d advise relying only on first hand sources and ignoring the media, websites, opinions etc....Show more
Craig Virani: There is no denying that Global warming exists. I understand why you may thing it is Earth's natural phase, such as when the Ice Age occured. But the thing is, it isn't normal for such a sudden rise in temperature over such a short time-period.And the evidence is clearly there. The trends shown in several studies show that over the past decades, the increasing population in the world has resulted in more carbon footprints are going to be left. And that results in increase in greenhouse gases. And I am very sure that this is no coincidence.And another thing is that, there are very few, if not any scientific studies that prove that global warming is not man-made. This is all science. The facts are there and Global Warming is not necessarily a 'belief'. It's a truth....Show more
Bethanie Menden:
Toby Women: T! he atmosphere of Mars is quite different from that of Earth. It is composed primarily of carbon dioxide with small amounts of other gases. The six most common components of the atmosphere are: Carbon Dioxide (CO2): 95.32% Nitrogen (N2): 2.7% Argon (Ar): 1.6% Oxygen (O2): 0.13% Water (H2O): 0.03% Neon (Ne): 0.00025 %The relationship between CO2 and planatary warming is obvious!!!!!!....Show more
Burt Stoecklin: So, do you?
Bernie Cerra: There have been natural changes in the past. But the data clearly shows the current warming is not natural.There's a ton of evidence that that's true. It's so long there's no room for it here, I have to use links.This is science and what counts is the data."I wasn’t convinced by a person or any interest groupâ€"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 troubl! e.â€Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, USN (Ret.)Former NASA Administrator! , Shuttle Astronaut and the first Commander of the Naval Space CommandHere 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/Image:Climate...http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdfIt's (mostly) not the sun:http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-earth/FAQ2...And the first graph aboves shows that the sun is responsible for about 10% of it. When someone says it's the sun they're saying that thousands of climatologists are stupid and don't look at the solar data. That's ridiculous.Mars warming is due to giant dust storms unique to Mars:http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/research/2007/mar...Science is quite good about exposing bad science or hoaxes:http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/ATG/polywater.htmlThere's a large number of people who agree that it is real and mostly caused by us, who are not liberals, environmentalists, stupid, or conceivably part of a "! conspiracy". Just three examples of many:"Global warming is real, now, and it must be addressed."Lee Scott, CEO, Wal-Mart"Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming."Senator John McCain, Republican, Arizona“DuPont believes that action is warranted, not further debate." Charles O. Holliday, Jr., CEO, DuPontThere's a lot less controversy about this is the real world than there is on Yahoo answers:http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/ho...And vastly less controversy in the scientific community than you might guess from the few skeptics talked about here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on...http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/570... and:"There's a better scientific consensus on this [climate change] than on any issue I know... Global warming is almost a no-brainer at this point. You really can't find intelligent, quantita! tive arguments to make it go away." Dr. Jerry Mahlman, NOAAGood website! s for more info:http://profend.com/global-warming/http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/...http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/http://www.realclimate.org"climate science from climate scientists"...Show more
Ardell Luy: Atmospheric Science or Climatology.
Aubrey Tirri: you admit that you see the evidence, then you state "but the evidence isn't there"...now I'm confused.Scientists have proven that dinosoars had undigested food in their stomachs when they died, and that they died suddenly and unexpectedly, and that it happened after a humungeous earthquake which darkened the earth because of the soot(?) in the air from the earthquake which then stopped crops from growing and then there was an immediate ice age. So too with climate change they don't know when or where a catastrophic event will happen, but they know it will happen someday. I think what they are saying is that people would "feel" better off if they worked toward trying to preven! t something they thought they started rather than sitting there fretting, fearing over years and getting more and more depressed. It's always better if people stay active. I think it's a psychological thing. But really we don't know if anything will happen in our generation, in the next generation or when, but we do know that some people can and will be saved, and it's always better to prepare for something even if something doesn't happen. There are always things to do to make life better for everyone and this is a good time to begin.American Indians have passed down verbiage of mother earth and how to treat her, and they realize mother earth hasn't been treated that good and they are verbalizing that to the media these days. So it's a good thing for people to help cure the earth. We also know that Yellowstone is heating up, which could easily cause an ice age. Other than all this all we have are projections. And our projections in the past have been right on....Sh! ow more
Indira Wassell: the planet is already in a warming period! , and the temp is going to rise anyway, but by humans interfering with it we are making it heat even faster and instead of letting nature do its thing we are making the earth toxic in the process
Vernita Robberson: Yes I do. I don't see the warming as the problem....but the effects that it will cause to humanity as well as other life forms
Roosevelt Pendill: As we chip global warming nuts out of ice packs, they will still claim that the Earth is warming, so they are going to ignore these facts and continue oblivious to the facts that are in their faces. Earth actually cures itself. When heat rises, carbon dioxide tends to follow in its rise to help cure the heat. Gore's own gragh indicated that! However, if you don't confuse the two lines, you will notice a trailing effect of carbon dioxide to heat of about 800 years. So, carbon dioxide actually helps to cool the Earth.Give a scientist a living and he will give you knowledge, give a scientist wealth and he ! will give you whatever you want....Show more
Russel Gajate: i was thinking astronomy or geology.. but.. yeah..thanks heaps c:
Mozell Sponsler: Yes and also Santa,the Tooth Fairy,Easter Bunny laying eggs and Elvis is Alive!!!!!
Ninfa Aronica: It is very hard to believe in "man made" global warming because it does not exist. The earth has always gone through warming and cooling periods. Why do you think Greenland is called Greenland? The Vikings once farmed there. Now we are suppose to believe that today's temp. is the "ideal temp" just because Al Gore says so! I'm with you brother. The whole Man Made Global warming thing is a farce.
Jannie Ariola: to the second poster: i can supply it. look at my two questions: "global warming advocates" and "another one for global warming advocates". i usually have few that counter my argument with statements other than "you're stupid" and for those that do post real statements, i message them and tell them wh! y they're wrong. as of yet none have messaged back.
Sunshine Hole! ts: Mars warming is irrelevant for 2 reasons:1) If global warming were due to the Sun then EVERY planet would be warming, not just a couple.2) Mars is warming for entirely different reasons than the Earth - namely dust storms darkening its surface:http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/07...The fact that you are not aware of the massive amounts of evidence for anthropogenic (man-made) global warming does not mean it doesn't exist. Here's my brief summary of the evidence:We know from ice core samples that historically when global warming occurred, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations also increased, but not until about 800 years later.http://www.daviesand.com/Choices/Precautionary_Pla...Many global warming deniers think this is evidence that CO2 can’t cause global warming. In fact, that’s the very first argument in the terrible Great Global Warming Swindle. On the contrary, this is actually evidence that human greenhouse gas emissions are currently causi! ng global warming. Compare the following global temperature and atmospheric CO2 concentration plots from 1960-Present:http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/info/warming/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mauna_Loa_Carbo...As you can see they’re both rising â€" not with an 800 year delay, but at the same time. If CO2 wasn’t causing global warming as was the case in the past, then why is there no 800 year delay?This only proves a correlation between CO2 and global warming and not a causality. The reason we’ve concluded that greenhouse gas emissions are causing global warming (or more accurately, accelerating it) is because natural causes can’t account for the increase in global warming over the past 40-50 years. They account for most of the warming prior to that, but climate models have determined that greenhouse gases are responsible for about 80-90% of the recent global warming:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_...The very first inputs into climate models! were solar, volcanic, and sunspot contributions, but they simply could! n’t account for the recent acceleration in global warming. Thus climate scientists have concluded that humans are the primary cause....Show more
Madlyn Fallis: Now that Al Gore is "in demand" again, he's spending more time on the road. As a result, he turned the lights in his Tennessee mansion off...viola, global cooling.
Lucien Hellerman: Atmospheric pressure.
Malissa Porth: The cooling is due to a strong La Nina. I find it amusing that La Ninas that cause cooling is a weather trend, but El Ninos that causes warming is climate change.As you can see in this chart there has been no correlation between co2 levels and temperatures during this past decade.http://icecap.us/images/uploads/MonthlyCO2vsTemps.......Show more
Gregg Hagge: Reverse psychology they tell the globe over and over that it's getting warmer to trick it into getting colder.
Alvaro Oare: Scientist now know that the Sun, not man is the cause for all temperature changes on Earth! . There is no correlation between temperatures and so-called "green house gases".Now the Sun is starting to enter a coo cycle. This is why our temperatures are cooler."Astrophysics knows two solar activity cycles, of 11 and 200 years. Both are caused by changes in the radius and area of the irradiating solar surface. The latest data, obtained by Habibullah Abdusamatov, head of the Pulkovo Observatory space research laboratory, say that Earth has passed the peak of its warmer period, and a fairly cold spell will set in quite soon, by 2012. Real cold will come when solar activity reaches its minimum, by 2041, and will last for 50-60 years or even longer."http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20080103/94768732.html...Show more
Stevie Kizziar: As a geologist, I would say it isn't geology. Global warming is a meaningless name in an of itself. I don't know what you mean by it. I don't know if you mean any warming, all the warming in the last 100 years, only the warming caused by ! CO2, or what. Alarmists like to keep it vague so the ignorant believe ! that any warming is caused by humans. That is junk science. I think a more appropriate category might be a subsection of psychology dealing with delusions.
Inez Relihan: Yes......90%, not sure 10%. But I don't care what Al Gore and politicians or what anyone says really. I just know from the crap that I put in the rubbish bin every week, the chemicals and pollutants that we spew out into the air every day, the amount of crap we don't really need that is in our shopping centres. You know all of that stuff you get for christmas - it has taken oil, chemicals, energy, and transport to get it under your christmas tree (apologise if you don't celebrate it) just an example.Think about all of the fish China, Japan, Indonesia etc, etc, are pilfering from the ocean - our little friendly fish are struggling to keep up with it, now they also have pollutants and warmer waters making life harder for them (who would want to be a fish?).My husband went to Shanghai China for work, t! hey are killing themselves over there, the air was so thick with pollution it made him and his work mate sick and their eyes became red and sore - just from the air!! Imagine living with that every day? When the Chinese spit, in many cities their spit comes out black, from all of the coal they are burning up for energy.I don't want my future planet to look like the bottom of my garbage bin, global warming or not - if you treat something like sh-t, that is what you are going to get back.
Virgilio Echter: yes...it is a result of too much heat trapped on the atmosphere..the heat from the sun enters the ozonosphere but since waste gases accumulate the atmosphere, they make the earth warmer.
