Global Warming: Fact or Fiction?
Is global warming really happening? Or is it simply a product of the super-liberal, dirty-hippy mentality?
Reference: http://www.globalwarming.org/
Posted By Robpea on September 9, 2007
Here's the thing
Posted By bathory313 on August 29, 2008
Anthropogenic Climate Change is unwieldy, but more accurate.
Posted By cantseetheforest on August 10, 2008
Global Warming - ready or not
Posted By DebAnne on April 8, 2008
The North Pole.
Posted By eastwind on January 11, 2008
Global warming will destroy us all!
Global warming will destroy us, just not anytime soon.
-- Posted By JenTheObscure on December 7, 2007In the last 35 years the North Pole has been reduced by 33%. It i predicted that in 2015 it won't exist at all, there is something more than the ordinary going on here, and we are the cause of it.
As a prominent meteorologist once put it, "It is like spitting into the ocean". Humans have not and will not cause global warming on this scale. Only Mother Nature can cause this type of global warming...
Greenhouse gases are being released at an astronomical rate. We're heating up like an oven.
-- Posted By Robpea on September 9, 2007Some skeptics point to the history of temperature fluctuations as proof that the warming of the earth is just a cyclic process that will soon correct itself. But warming has never occured so intensely in such a short period of time. .
And you want us to believe that the huge pollution factories of the industrial age had no effect, but today's gases do?
There is an obvious link between humans and global warming.
-- Posted By Swryght on October 23, 2007While we have a lot of motivations for wishing it wasn;t true, it is. An overwhelming scientific consensus exists to support this theory, and The consequences are dire. What's the worst that could happen from cleaning up our act?
If I'm right, we'll be glad we acted when we did. If I'm wrong, the worst that could happen is that we live in a more ecological world with cleaner air for our kids and a more sustainble future for our race. This is a no-brainer.
some people blow this global warming thing out of proportion and making up myths but the truth is global warming is very real and is happening as I type.
Anthropogenic Climate Change is unwieldy, but more accurate.
-- Posted By cantseetheforest on August 10, 2008I think that, in certain key respects, the phenomenon of global warming has been "mythologized," taken out of context, etc. For example, if, by global warming, one means a relatively rapid rise in global mean temperatures, then we can point to instances in the natural record in which this has happened in the absence of human civilization. It would also be wise to note that, because these trends did happen in the absence of civilization as we know it, we are poorly equipped to make sound predictions as to how they might affect our kind of civilization going forward.
That is why the term "anthropogenic (people-caused) climate change" is more accurate. It is clear that human industry--from logging and slash-'n'-burn agriculture through massive, continuous factory outputs of greenhouse gases--is altering the environment in ways that are poorly understood. What is commonly referred to as "global warming" is really just a small (albeit tremendously important) part of a broader spectrum of effects engendered by industry and development more generally; from atmospheric, soil, and water pollution, to habitat destruction through urban development, et cetera.
Personally, I feel that the key to reducing human impact on the environment is personal responsibility. People need to come together and make choices at the level of the home and community to consume less and contribute more to their local ecosystems. The industrial apparatuses which govern so much of modern life were developed and continue to operate with a focus on near-term profit, not long-term consequences. The master's house will never be dismantled with the master's tools. That is why it is more prudent and responsible for consumers to shoulder the responsibility for lowering ecological impact rather than expecting industry and government to do the work--this is, in my opinion, largely delusional. Government will "act" to protect the environment only insofar as there are votes to be gained, and votes can be gained by token measures without any real effectiveness. The pocketbooks of consumers collectively speak much more loudly.
So, to summarize, it is more beneficial for people to think of climate change as something which they can personally combat through their actions and deeds rather than some unavoidable coming cataclysm--even though, for all we know, the damage already done may in fact be near-cataclysmic. The solution to environmental degradation is mostly, at its core, a matter of personal choice: consuming responsibly and consuming less, particularly in the realm of energy (fossil fuels and the like), so it really boils down to lifestyle choices.
And it is truly amazing how many people, particularly in the United States, prefer to laconically deny the negative impact of industrial civilization on the environment so that they can continue to feel justified in filling their gas tanks and running their air conditioners all night long.
Global warming is a myth.
Global warming may be happening right now, but there is little we can do to stop it.
-- Posted By JayBird on September 10, 2007It's a natural, cyclical process, not a man-made catastrophe.
Volcanic eruptions, increased sun radiation, and other such natural events make man's contributions miniscule by comparison.
Follow the money! GW alarmists would spend billions in futile efforts. Why not spend our resources in far more productive ways, such as reducing malaria, extreme poverty, etc.?
I think Global warming is going to happen even if we stop cars world wide, stop all spray cans,put a hault to all factories that emit any kind of smoke, etc etc. It is still going to happen and there isn't a thing we can do about it. Global warming happens, it is a natural part of earth's life cycle.
There is no scientific proof that man has any effect on Global warming.
-- Posted By visionary1 on September 10, 2007The problems that we should be looking at are the problems caused by landfill and toxic waste. We are killing the Planet but not by causing it to fry! That is just political propaganda as another excuse to raise taxes.
And so what if the earth heats up a little bit. The slight melting of the polar icecaps would allow dry farmland across the world to be watered as much as needed. Drought would never be an issue. This is all an elaborate ploy to push hybrid cars.
It's all just the crazy liberals conjuring stuff up.
and what about floods? that's the issue of polar melting, too much water - we couldn't handle it. oh and environmentalists push that hybrid cars aren't worth any real mention. they're made of parts which have flown across the world too many times.
Right now in the Netherlands is has become popular to build houseboat houses instead of structures that would not float since their whole country will be affected by the rise in ocean levels. You seem to have read just enough to truly be dangerous since you do not grasp the concept of the carbon footprints we each make upon the earth. My suggestion is that you not breed since the legacy you would leave to the world, you in good conscious would not leave to your family line.

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I was born 7 lbs. 11 ounces. Back then they just rounded up, rather than taking it out to a decimal point. So who knows- maybe I actually weighed 7 lbs. 10.6 ounces.