Global warming. What is your opinion.

I was just interested what everyone thought about this global warming that ever one talks about. Any ideas are acceptable just make sure there is no inappropriate language or anything like that.

I agree 100% with Britt, could not have been said better Britt, nice job.

I love how on the news everything is because of "global warming", it just makes me laugh...

Lol we can snub it if we like but we cannot deny that we have a hand in what is going on, I doubt they were polluting the way we pollute now days and everything we do has an effect on our planet. This planet has been around for how long? and it took us only a couple of thousand years to destroy it.

I agree with Britt honestly.

"I'm not going to get too into this because this is something I am VERY passionate about.

It's a load of bull.

The Earth is changing, the temperatures differ, sure. But they did back in the Ice Age...was that designed by human disaster? Noo.

The world is just taking its course. I truly believe whatever is going on in the world would've happened no matter what we do.

This living "green" crap really irks me."

^^ That's pretty much how I feel about it as well. Nature is nature. We've done things to hurt the earth, but alas, nothing humanity can really do can stop the behemoth that is nature itself.

But, while that may sound like quite the pessimistic thought in itself, I don't really worry about where nature will put us. I'm more worried about what we as people will do to one another, than what we do to our living space. A nuke would heat the earth up more than a few pieces of styrophome would. Just my opinion though, to each their own. :)

No drinkable water and barely breathable air will not be a happier ending lol

Temperatures/Climates change, they have their extreme highs and lows. I won't go as far to say that global warming is not real; only that we're taking it far too seriously. You can live "green" all you want, but when the lovely earth decides to throw you off of it, there's no stopping it. You can't make any deals, you can't say you were good to the earth so you must be spared. Global warming: a serious deal, or a conspiracy? ;]

Well thank you all for each and everyone of the comments. I was going over all of the opinions and I believe that global warming is not true because they say the ozone layer is getting larger but It's actually getting smaller. Beside the earth has never had a problem with the ozone layer so why would it matter whats happening today. For some people I know they believe that the idea of global warming is real to them but in reality it is not true. the facts even prove that global warming is not really happening. It's just getting a little hotter and after a couple of years it will start getting colder and it will be global cooling. Well at any rate this is my opinion about this fact.

"Beside the earth has never had a problem with the ozone layer so why would it matter whats happening today"

lol what we do damages all facets of our earth, what we do to our environment today is far more damaging then say 2 or 3 hundred years ago. By the logic of that statement we should just do whatever we want because it has no consequences on our surroundings, but we all know that's wrong.

We definitely have an impact on the earth, but in the end, our existence will be a blink of the eye compared to this world's duration. Saying that, I still consider it important to act with compassion- if not for Mother nature then at least for ourselves. IMO the majority of companies and people who speak on behalf of global warming derive quite a bit of profit from it, so no one can be sure. "State of Fear", by Michael Chrichton deals with this issue and is very good read.

I believe it is partially our fault that global warming has occurred. I don't think we can permantly stop it from happening but we are speeding up the process. We can slow it down by going "green". We're all selfish and we think that we can just take whatever we want and have no sudden consequences. We think we can cut off as many trees, use up all the oil, etc. and just see what happens. I mean, we're not the only people that live on this Earth. Just because we're "superior" beings than other animals doesn't mean we can use up all their resources. There is so much pollution in the world, and that is mainly our fault. We're "destroying" this planet.

I can't help but see people show defeatist attitudes and brush off common logical viewpoints.

I actually don't care whether the earth will either burn us alive or freeze us solid... Because I can go back to the earth with the thought that I haven't brought doom to the earth and my future descendants... I can go with a green conscience....Lol

It would be wise to chin up and know that you're helping the future rather than pass the buck like our fathers have done

Global warming. i think this is something that's really supposed to happen. whatever we do to stop it we just cant.
it scares me a little, though. did you guys see on tv a piece of ice sheet melt from antartica?! wooossh.

I'm more worried about overfishing and what were are doing to our oceans than global warming

I'm very happy about Global warming.

Soon Scotland, where I live will be the new spain and I'll be able to upgrade my skin tone to a light caramel.

Then America, or China by that time will invade us cause we have all the water and good weather..and it'll be like the roman invasion all over again. Highlanders kicking the beans out of the most powerful empire ever known to man.

Good days.

It's all about how you walk, plus kilts, when worn correctly have a rather pleasant uplifting aspect to them that I firmly believe makes one less weighty and likely to get bogged down in Bull poo.

That and only gormless invaders to our beautiful country would be stupid enough to walk where Bulls walk.

"The collapse of the "consensus" has been driven by reality. The inconvenient truth is that the earth's temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02. Peer-reviewed research has debunked doomsday scenarios about the polar ice caps, hurricanes, malaria, extinctions, rising oceans. A global financial crisis has politicians taking a harder look at the science that would require them to hamstring their economies to rein in carbon."
Steve Feilding

I don't believe that Al Gore would intentionally mislead anyone any more than Dick Cheney would shoot his best friend in the face. I personally believe that mankind has reached the technology to influence our own environment

I also can appreciate George Bushes understanding that the levees affected by a record-breaking hurricane were designed to withstand the previous hurricanes

George assured us that no one expected the levees to break, only eleven percent of the engineers that briefed him on this disaster expected the levees to break

The only reason I don't remember seeing a category 5 of this size on radar is because I was not paying attention

If current events can be manipulated so skillfully imagine how history can.

I do hope the global temperature continues to flat line and the climate stabilizes

I feel{The collapse of the "consensus"} has more to do with political motivation than any new world wide data

With all due respect the article you have sited completly avoided all proposed scientific theories of the incovenient truth ...........
.......donaldrminikus

Rikki I was not quoting myself in the first half of my opinion I quoted Steve Fielding who has modified his original statement to this"Climate change is real. Yes that's right, contrary to the misreporting in the media, I do believe in climate change.

As Bob Dylan would say "you don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows"

In the polictical climate the spin is based on what voters believe

I am not a scientist nor a prophet but I must admit that I believe that the world will continue to witness things that have not been common in the former average temperature of the world

donaldrminikus I believe that hurricanes are natural heat engines do you believe that Al has the resources to make it look as though the average global temperature is rising at an alarming rate?

Ben Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, soldier[2], and diplomat. I heard while building a kite he told his wife he was looking for a little tail, and she said I thought you were going to fly a kite. It seems that if Al is not a scientist that even he would say he almost recieved a Nobel Peace Prize after he was almost elected
I do find it difficult to debate a message without attacking a messenger
Bob Shank said
. "Donaldminikus and Mike Nalley can cuss someone out without using nary a curse word,"

I am sorry I changed the direction of this discussion by exalting the messengers and do admit that not much data enters my mind directly.

Some truths are inconvenient, yet I do not believe truths can be invented
I have not connived a belief in chemcal balance only for the purpose of power
I do share a personal disability with Al to the point of asperger syndrome

In the green house theory manmade C.O.2 could make a difference in the natural chemical balance
If I attempt to control all of the chemicals in my body I will fail
The easiest way to attack a chemical imbalance atmospheric or environmental is to deny the issue
How does one conspire in a conniving way to control chemcal balance?

I know of very few bussinessmen in these States whose hearts are not warmed by Benjamens. and would prefer the enviromentalist would go fly a kite

"Any one can take a (make a ) film call it a documentary and shove it up a believers ***. this is in response to "look how big the Icebergs are" people."

Though I am really enjoying this moderated debate my sister hits harder than you do

yes,anyone can place words in any order they wish on this screen, but that does prove anything

If I had Sean Hannity's money I could smuggly inform everyone that I drive the most green car on the market

An inconvenient truth is I never got as close to being a journalist as Sean,and Sean will never get as close to being president or a Nobel Prize as Al has.

'I was just interested what everyone thought about this global warming that ever one talks about. Any ideas are acceptable just make sure there is no inappropriate language or anything like that'

A romantic interest of mine used to manage a fast food place that had a sign "size matters."
An enlarged heart does not insure a longer like.

In fact an enlarged heart can be a symptom of a chemical imbalance

I believe it is as natural for a man to desire fat in his diet as a bussinessman to desire Benjamens in his bank.
"Polar Ice Cap Melting
Effects of the more Rapid Melting of the Polar Caps
There are spots in Greenland and Antarctica which are actually gaining ice because of increases in annual snowfall. But, on average, they are melting faster. For a while change will come slowly, but later this century it will speed up. The consequences of this melting include the release of methane (a warming gas) trapped in the tundra, and a slowing of the Atlantic Conveyor, which would cool Europe and warm tropical waters.

Melting Ice
"(M)easurements tell the real story. During the last 10 years, we have seen only about 10 percent of the greenhouse warming expected during the next 100 years, but already the polar ice sheets are responding in ways we didn't even know about only a few years ago."

In spite of all the opposition to intellegent disign I believe it is possible for man to adapt to his own ignorance and heed the warnings.
I believe mother nature is ignorant and apathic towards the needs of bussinesssmen but the Benjamins still have in God we trust on them.

You know I just noticed...

the black democrat president is apparently the only one more "evil" than bush himself...

The irony being that the man who hailed into office preaching change is actually trying to change the world (by some) for the worse... Lol

Piggy banks or benjamins there is no denying our nation has an oil addiction, whether you are in favor of drill baby drill or bomb baby bomb!

Do you, DM or MD believe CO2 Natural or otherwise effects overall global temps?

All you need to do is look at the news

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/sciencetech/5-deadliest-effects-of-global-warming/276

One way or another it seems we will pay a price with a bill in the Senate a Bill in the Atlantic, and a bill from the I.R.S.

I also dont believe humanes are that responsible for global warming. it is a natural thing. and for those who say yes it is natural but it usually happens over thousands of years not hundreds, i will say that is not always true. in siberia they have found wooly mamoths flash frozen with food in ther stomaches that hadnt even been digested(flash freezing is when meat is frozen quickly at extremly low temperatures to stop the ice crystals forming normaly and damaging the meat. and its been estimated that these mamoths would have to have been exposed to temps below 120 degres celsius for it to happen) so basically these mamoths where going around on minute eating just fine then the next minute the temp fell below 100 degrees celcius. you know this seems to me just a little faster than the thousands of years global cooling is supposed to take.

Firstly it didnt only happen to a few animals but many mamoths and other species are burried below the permafrost level. not in glaciers.
"The top expert on woolly mammoths
in Siberia, Nikolai Vereshchagin,
has spent nearly a half century
of research on the mammoth fauna.
He states that there are many
hundreds of thousands of large
mammals buried in Siberia and also
many millions of bones. One
estimate he made for one region of
Siberia would suggest five million
mammoths buried."

"There are probably millions of
mammoths buried in the permafrost of Siberia alone.
The mammoths are found with a wide variety of other
mammals, large and small, many of which were
grazers. They lived in a grassland environment with
a long growing season, mild winters, very little permafrost,
and a wide diversity of plants — quite different
from the climate in the region today."

"Woolly mammoths are not the only fossil mammals found
in the permafrost of Beringia. There are a wide range of other
mammals, large and small, that accompany the mammoths.
These include the woolly rhinoceros, wolf, fox, lion, brown
bear, camel, deer, ground sloth, pika, wolverine, ferret, ground
squirrel, moose, reindeer, yak, musk ox, giant beaver,
lemming, porcupine, coyote, skunk, mastodon, antelope,
sheep, voles, hare and rabbit, plus many species of birds,
rodents, horses, and bisons. Frozen carcasses of these
animals, especially the woolly rhinoceros, are also found.
Generally, the same animals are found together"
(all references taken from http://www.detectingdesign.com/PDF%20Files/mammoth.pdf)

theses all indicate that something sudden happened to the climate of siberia to change it from a temperate climate to the frozen wasteland we know it as today. if the climate change had taken thousands of years, or even a hundred years the animals would have been able to migrate away and there wouldnt have been this mass extincton. i have now found evidence that states that the flash freezing isnt neccesary to explain the food in its stomache but never the less something drastic must have happened to the climate to cause them to freeze. especialy considering the climate was then temperate and supported many other animals which dont handle the cold well at all like lions camels and horses.

Tr

What you have said is interesting and makes sense. but the mamoths werent the only reason i was thinking of to explain abrupt climate change that wasnt man made. unfortunately it was the only one i could remember off the top of my head. i have now found the other evidence i was looking for that shows climates can change rapidly over no more than a decade."Changes recorded in the climate of Greenland at the end of the Younger Dryas, as measured by ice-cores, imply a sudden warming of +10°C within a timescale of a few years" even the change into the ice age took no more than a few short decades.also another reference states " the ubiquitous character of certain events further confirms their importance: "the Younger Dryas and a large number of abrupt changes during the last ice age called Dansgaard/Oeschger events (23 abrupt changes into a climate of near-modern warmth and out again, during the last glacial period) have been corroborated in multiple ice cores from Greenland, Antarctica and tropical mountains, marine sediments from the North Atlantic Ocean, the tropical Atlantic, eastern Pacific, and Indian Oceans, and from various records on land. Other, smaller abrupt changes have been linked to societal disruptions. Evidence for some of these events are more regional in nature, and points to far less dramatic changes. However, these events did occur so rapidly and unexpectedly that human or natural systems had difficulty adapting to them " read these two references for more precise info .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrupt_climate_change and http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/pi/arch/printer.shtml they show that climate change can be very sudden and violent without mans help. and it wasnt only for the younger dryas that we have proof it happened suddenly. the ice core samples covered about 100000 years and show quite a few abrupt climate changes . what i find very interesting is that, while we can only speculate on how long climates took to change millions of years ago, all the evidence from the last hundred thousand years show they have happend extremly rapidly

All I have to say on this is look up the 30,000 scientist against global warming and also was not the scare of the early 70s Global cooling? Urh oh!

I'd rather be safe than sorry, meaning I'd rather take care of the earth to the best of my means than to drown in fifty years because those scientists are right. But then again, as someone else stated, when the earth decides it's time for you to go, you go. There just may be some cycles we have little affect in preventing.
But we should be good to the earth. It is our home after all. It's like letting your house become a dump. We should have respect for nature, because it has no respect for us.

I don't feign to understand the realities of global warming.

Either the islands have sunk about 2 to 3 feet into the ocean or the ocean has risen 2 to 3 feet

Yes, it has been proving that most of the islands have holes and such in them and/or are sinking. Just move off the island :)

Come to think of it, I don't know why anyone would LIE about global warming. I think it is a real issue. I also think it's scary that so many people don't believe it's a real issue.. and we're screwed.

Global warming is a real issue. that it is caused by man is extremely doubtfull. all the evidence we have from the last 100000 years show that climates can and do change drastically. i am not talkng 1000s or even 100s of years to change but mere years and decades. there is multiple evidence that has been corroborated in multiple ice cores from Greenland, Antarctica and tropical mountains, marine sediments from the North Atlantic Ocean, the tropical Atlantic, eastern Pacific, and Indian Oceans, and from various records on land that show abrupt climate change is natural and not man made. read this article for more information http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/pi/arch/printer.shtml or simply search "abrupt climate change" on the internet. there is a wealth of info that shows that man causing global warming to accelerate is bs. now dont get me wrong. i absoloutly abhor what man is doing to the world but trying to get us to change by lying to us is never going to work

Blame the cows. They should stop farting so much... stupid methane.

You cant honestly claim that every scientist who doesnt believe man is causing global warming is lying through there teeth to support there sponsors.and interestingly enough it is actually alot of the major institutes who recieve goverment and corporate funding who support global warming, not the other way around

and yes. i do agree we are going through a period of drastic climate change. but this has happened many times in the past without mans help. and you cant argue that climate change always takes hundreds or thousands of years naturally. because there is plenty of proof that it dosnt haveto. search abrupt climate change on the web or Dansgaard/Oeschger events
. all the evidence we have from ice cores and myrad other sources show that global warming can increase the temp by as much as 10 degrees celcius in as little as a decade or 2. there have been 20 odd of these world wide abrupt climate changes over the last 100 000 years and i will bet you man had nothing to do with a single one of them. in that same time period there has also been many more regional climate changes. However, these events did occur so rapidly and unexpectedly that human or natural systems had difficulty adapting to them
read this article here for more info or simply search the web
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/pi/arch/printer.shtml

I own a goat with wings, I fly him seven times a day.

^^ lolz... nice comment!

Well I think we should all try to prevent it, or at least be causious about the wellbeing of the environment. But global warming is also overrated, it seems like it's the end of the world, and when the end of the world is here, it's here we wouldn't be able to do nothing about it.