Mario Stricklan: It's the theory that man is mainly responsible for any supposed warming of the planet. It has now evolved into the theory that all unusual weather is caused by or made worse by man made CO2. It is an unfalsifiable theory and therefore should be classified as a religious belief.
Providencia Jalbert: Global Warming is happening, but what people don't realize is water vapor is the major contributor to the greenhouse effect not humans releasing carbon dioxide.
Rayford Speziale: I have heard its b.s. and as you know people we are treated like mushrooms by our government, kept in the dark and fed a bunch of s.....t.
Gladys Worthing: Yep, governments have a habit of treating people like mushrooms. However, you can get all the information you need from the internet.Try Real Climate and the CDIAC for information about global warming and for the opposing view try GlobalWarming.orghttp://www.realclimate.org/ http://cdiac.ornl.gov/ http://www.globa! lwarming.org/ You can also access the data which is used to compile the global temperature records, some of the datasets can be found here...IPCC Data - http://www.ipcc-data.org/ CRU Data - http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/ HadCRUT3 Data - http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcrut3/data/download... GISS Data - http://data.giss.nasa.gov/ IPCC GCM Data - http://www.mad.zmaw.de/IPCC_DDC/html/ddc_gcmdata.h... Do I personally beleive in global warming? I've spent 26 years researching it and studying the facts, figures and evidence, there can only be one conclusion.
Irvin Guiles: Climate Change legislation IS all about the money.i.e. SMOG checks in California... I used to build hot rods. Cold air intakes require a CARB sticker to be "legal".If I connect a tube with an air filter attached to the end of it, how is a sticker going to impact it's affect on Climate Change?The money 'needed' for industry to be cleaner is mostly for R&D to figure out what works and what doesn't. If ad! vanced, industrial countries have already figured it out, it's! as simple as building a clean system to start with instead of making one that needs upgrades to be clean....Show more
Karl Samiec: The International Standard Atmosphere (ISA) defines the average temperature at sea level on earth to be 15 degrees Celsius. In the past years, we have seen that it increases especially in the northern part of the northern hemisphere. Is it due to a normal climatic cycle or is it the result of our consumption of fossil fuel? Perhaps both.What is worth noting, though, is that, if it warms up mostly where most releases of carbon dioxide happens, it makes sense that some of it is man-made.Will it lead to more dramatic weather? Well it works both ways. The weather is all about the thermodynamic effects of air masses with different moisture, pressure and temperature. The greater the difference, the stronger the weather. This is why, for example, most storms at mid-latitudes happen during the fall and winter, when the polar region is very cold. ! The difference of temperature with the Inter-Tropical Convergency Zone (ITCZ) is then great and the polar front is more intense.So, if only the polar regions warm up, there will be less difference, hence milder weather. On the other hand, warmer air means, more moisture in the air. At 15 C, a cubic meter of air can't contain more than about 13 grams of water. But at 30 C, it is up to about 32 grams!So, warmer atmosphere means, more moisture in the air and moisture it the fuel of bad weather because moist air that condenses releases latent heat energy and that keeps the air buoyant, thus decreasing even further the pressure and causing stronger wind.On the other hand, more moisture in the air means, more clouds and more albedo to our atmosphere. For example, only half of the sun's energy reaches the ground. The rest is stopped by the reflecting (albedo) effect of the clouds, the snow and, partly, by the ozone layer.So, what will be the result of a global warming? We don't re! ally know and that, in itself, is worrying enough, don't you think?EDIT! ED: I cross-posted with Maxx here above. I didn't read his answer before posting mine. He is a top contributor in "Global Warming." I am a top contributor to the "weather" section as I teach meteorology to aviators at my club and has done it for many years (I am 65 years old). I am always amazed to see people with definitive answers like: "NO! IT IS A HOAX!" It is nice to be politically motivated but ... the weather is more than a Democrat vs. Republican question. The world is greater than the USA! ;-)...Show more
Wilfredo Muldoon: you know it! it's almost the end of march and i have over six feet of snow at my house still. i cant wait to take a boat to work instead of a car. and for everyone who is freaking out about me and the rest of the human population causing global warming i have a question for you. if the cavemen lived during an ice age and the ice melted to make an area perfect for planting and harvesting what caused the ice age to end? probably the industria! l revolution right? yeah we have no effect on the warming and cooling periods of the earth. global warming is happening and we can't stop it, we can't speed it up, we can't affect it in anyway. so buy that diesel pick up you've been wanting. ditch that little hybrid that runs off of strawberry douche. have a fun day on the lake with the jet ski. none of it is going to matter cause global warming is a naturally ocurring event....Show more
Judie Kise: Absolutely not!!!! Global Warming is a total catastrophe! Even now global warming is doing terrible damage to our society. Almost 1/7 of Antarctica has melted. It is predicted that by 2010 the Icecaps will be completely gone, killing off many species. In Northern countries, there is something called permafrost. The permafrost is a layer of frozen earth. Many trees and plants have taken root in the permafrost. The permafrost has melted and trees are falling over dead the northern regions are almost barren now. Visi! t http://icecap.us/images/uploads/CarbonDioxide_Fina... for a chart wit! h the amount of carbon dioxide in the air yearly (2nd page). By 2010 the charts will have to adjust somehow because the line will be going straight up.If global warming is not controlled soon we will all die. We shouldn't just wait for it to come or else we are all doomed. WE should try to do something against it now or else...you'll see what will happen if we don't. We don't want to see what will happen, so everyone, please work against it....Show more
Karl Samiec: It's an enormous political HOAX. An excuse by government to tax us more and destroy our liberties. It's NOT happening.But please bear in mind that the debate is about "man-made" Global Warning --- not global warming. It's true there has been a little natural warming over the last several decades but it was NOT caused by human activity.Man-made Global Warming advocates have no empirical science to back their claim. And their advocacy movement has been mired in scandal since its beginning. Here are some ! things you should know:1) The Earth has been both much warmer and much colder in the distant past, long before the industrial age. Climate is indeed changing, but it has always changed and probably always will. These are obviously natural cycles that man does not and cannot control.2) Global Warming alarmists have been caught in one lie after another. Huge scandals have been continuously revealed since the early 1980’s when the campaign began. Some of these are listed below:3) Al Gore’s movie "An Inconvenient Truth" was full of bald faced lies. Like the Polar Bears were drowning, or the Ice Caps were melting, or the oceans were rising --- all lies. In fact a court of England ruled the movie was so flawed that it could not be shown to school children without a disclaimer.4) The ClimateGate affair exposed the utter corruption of the Warmist community with their exposed emails speaking of how they intended to “hide the decline†and how to manipulate data and the peer-r! eview process in their favor.5) Then there is the fact that the globe i! sn’t even warming anymore and the small amount of warming experienced from the 1900’s to 2013 timeframe was negligible and well within the envelope of normal.6) During this same period of marginal warming, scientists also noticed that other planets in our solar system were warming. What do these planets have in common ? --- the Sun.7) Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit, the Guru and High Priest of Global Warming himself admitted there has been no statistically significant warming. If anyone on the planet would have been aware of statistically significant warming it would have been Phil Jones and he admitted there has been none. (Game Over)8) Warmists like Al Gore refuse to engage in any formal debate on the issue. That’s because on the few occasions Warmist have debated openly, they lose, and they lose big. Lord Monckton utterly destroys them time and time again.9) Al Gore and other Warmists have stated clearly that they want to make CO2 the object of a gl! obal tax. CO2 is the perfect object for their revenue purposes because you literally cannot live without making CO2, after all, we exhale it. And good science has revealed that no correlation exist to show CO2 drives warming. Demonizing CO2 is all about the tax dollars, and that’s all its about.See the scam for what it is and don’t believe any of it. Polar Bears are doing fine:http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/190805/20110802/po...Phil Jones admits NO statistically significant warminghttp://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/15/global-w...35 major errors in Al Gore’s moviehttp://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton/goreerr...Court rules Al Gore’s movie unfit without disclaimer (11 major errors reviewed)http://creation.com/al-gores-inconvenient-errorsGraphs showing that CO2 does NOT drive Temperaturehttp://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/correlatio...Warming on Mars -- and Jupiter, Pluto, Neptunehttp://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6544Lord Monckton destroys Warmi! st in debate (Video)http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/inde.! ..For the full story on the man-made Global Warming scam watch these:The Great Global Warming Swindlehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtevF4B4RtQ
Clemente Schoeck: Humans are a tropical animal, a more tropical planet will likely improve our lot. As for dying, it comes to us all, don't wish for it to arrive soon, you might turn out not to be one of the strong.
Thurman Buege: It's a trick to transfer wealth from so called rich countries to poor ones. And from wealthy U.S. energy producers to U.S. government.
Manual Burtis: There are two types of countires, developed and undeveloped. Devloped nations mean United States or European Countries. These countries are wealthy and fairly stable. Being in the post industrial phase, these countries deforested majority of their forest which lead them to great economic gain. Lumber industries thrived whereas ecosystem services declined. Basically, these nations made huge loads of money. With the ecosystem, these nations d! o not have enough plants or trees to purify the air. In essence, these nations intensify global warming because the trees they cut can no longer act as resevoirs for carbon.. Undeveloped nations that have not been exploited produce alot of the oxygen developed nations breathe at no cost to them. Keep in mind, undeveloped are the poor nations. Knowing that the key out of economic trouble is deforesting, they are told not to for the sake of global warming. Its hypocritical. They cant make money and its for everyone's air, not just theirs. Its unfair....Show more
Kizzy Hett: It's just about a bunch of Leftists, Socialists and old washed-up Hippies trying to "redistribute wealth", with quite a bit of it going into their pockets in the process. AGW is just an enormous fraud.
Joie Libutti: Until recently, Global Warming was the constant increase in global average surface temperature anomaly. The warmists always start their graphs after the Little Ice Age which was th! e coldest point in the last few thousand years. See this for a more rep! resentative sample:http://www.greenworldtrust.org.uk/Science/Images/i...When the temperatures stopped increasing the warmists moved the goal posts. The science still says that CO2 warms the air but this no longer results in an increase in temperature, it seems. That has never been properly explained in my opinion.Comment for Alph: "There are still people who deny the moon landings occurred, so there is little hope of reason for deniers.""Four NASA Astronaut Legends; Buzz Aldrin (Gemini 12, Apollo 11), Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17), Phil Chapman (Apollo 14) and Walter Cunningham (Apollo 7), all skeptical of "man-made" global warming (AGW) alarm."They obviously did not get the memo....Show more
Danette Slotnick: Who cares if it is or is not. Odds are there are enough natural resources to see you through your natural life. Politicians are living large on the taxpayers dime. The big governments and politicians have NO plans to cut their lifestyles (big salaries, private je! ts, huge motorcades, million+$ mansions, etc.). Their lives are lived in opulence with no plans to do anything but continue in that way for them and their families. I say...use and consume to whatever point your life is the best it can be! Live for today and live for yourself. Might as well live it up while you are here...it's human nature.
Joey Mekeel: It is the expected temperature increase of the planet due to additional heat being prevented from radiating into outer space by the rising concentration of CO2 in the air due to people burning coal, oil, and natural gas.
Bob Nakamoto: Average global temperature has not increased since 1998. Anybody who wants to claim that it has should do some research on the climategate scandal. I don't know if the huffington post has done a piece on it though-you might need to watch some real news.
Dallas Bartolini: If you feel certain that human beings are casing global warming, then I invite you to read the following p! aper:http://www.phys.uu.nl/~nvdelden/Segalstad.pdf. . . seemingly a goo! d history of the human-caused global warming claim, with a detailed technical refutation of the claim that humans cause global warming. When I see a paper like this, along with the number of desenting opinions I'm seeing these days, I have to admit that I am DOUBTING the popular claim that human beings are causing recent global temperature rises.I just do NOT know. And I feel that no one else REALLY knows either ... FOR SURE.I DO believe that the technology that supposedly is causing global warming NEEDS IMPROVING. I believe that there are far more convincing arguments than human-made global warming for improving our technology. There are far more provable reasons to live and act cleaner. There are far more tangible problems that need the great attention and funding that human-caused global warming seems to get.WE SHOULD BE SPENDING OUR MONEY AND ATTENTION ELSESHERE.. . . massive ocean pollution by plastic - for example:http://hubpages.com/hub/Earths-Oceans-In-BIG-Tro! ub...Robert
Blaine Connett: Yes. I'm considering the worst case, and it might do us some good. Housing in the densest areas is too expensive to knock down and renovate. The best US coastline is everywhere crowded with tacky 1950s (or older) capes and cabins. Lets start over with 2500 sqft McMansions with insulation and central air. I'm not kidding at all....Show more
Jefferson Sarson: I'm a civilian known to my Global Teams from all walks of life as Global Command and We Found that Global Warming was an ALIEN Organism thats was implemented in a large cave underground in a no- fly zone. We also know the only way to corrolate this exact position that only weakens the ozone to only melt all ICED areas is from outside Earths ozone. At dawn's first light a narrow bean activated and widened into the full size of daylight on a large farming area to weaken the ozone. When my Teams shut down global warming to run my experiments, thats when they found it was alive/ Alien! organism. Each time they shut it down, my Teams in all ICED areas note! d that freshwater from melted Glaciers and Glaciers stopped melting and immediately froze on each shut down/ This is how we knew that we found the exact location of Global Warming. Ex-President Bush told everyone that it was the environment, but I proved him wrong in 2008 and I proved it to 350 million people and all the scientists that bush hired. My Global teams were being fired upon, so I pulled them out and gave them my Global solution to lower all oceans around their continents to see if we can slow or stop dry land from ending up in the oceans. From 2008 to 2011 They saved 1,7 miles of dry land on all land masses. In 2012 I sent the hostile continent my triple Output solution's Embassy to feed their people more and at the same time turn off Global Warming. Between July and 11/28/2012 Global Warming ceased to exist and all season's have returned to normal naturally so all new born species would survive. Mike...Show more
Eulah Hugill: It's about time that a cata! strophe refines our species. Many will die, but the strong will live.Evolution in motion. Any opinions?
Julieta Suleiman: Oh yea im looking foward to it. lol just kidding. i really think nobody wants it. i think its jsut a part of life. just like everything else. if people treat the earth bad by polution or littering than of course its gonig to affect the earth. so im not really looking foward to it
Emile Midgley: https://euobserver.com/environment/131459From the article: "The European Union needs to offer more money to developing countries to help them reduce carbon emissions as well as to cope with climate change, environmental groups said at a press conference in Paris on Wednesday (9 December)."I thought it was industry that caused CO2. At least that is what Al Gore and so many other Saviors of the Earth said. Now we need to give unindustrialized countries money to reduce their CO2 output?...Show more
Shane Getler: MAN made climate change means to dest! roy nature & that means the ozone will be on earth's ground, because on! ly nature creates the climate. As is all non solids that rise up into the upper atmosphere like exhaust, gases, co2, smoke, etc., is separated by nature so the suns rays can warm earth to grow plants for food & oxygen so all species can survive. Mike
Shawnna Kusky: Well if it is getting warmer why are companies that make heavy winter clothing making record profits and the stores are almost always out of stock on them since last spring when it stayed cold instead of warming up. But it will be fun to watch the silly liberals on a snowy beach in Santa Monica pretending to have fun when everybody else is freezing their buns off in trench coats.Some scientific information revealing the truth about global warming, when it happened and what probably caused it. And as well how many years, centuries or millennia it might be before the world warms up again from the coming ice age.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:0Master_Past_200...http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/global_wa! rming.h...http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data....http://reasonmclucus.tripod.com/CO2myth.htmlhttp://mc-computing.com/qs/Global_Warming/Atmosphe...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_variationWhere the heat came from and why it was abnormally cold previouslyhttp://www.ac.wwu.edu/~dbunny/research/global/215....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cyclehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_minimumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum...Show more
Tijuana Tatsak: Always the heat from sun will reflect back to the space by the Earth's surface. Now a days due to pollution, the Earth's surface cant reflect the heat, so that the heat stays on the Earth's surface and increase the Earth's temperature. Results in melting of polar ice caps.
Lilli Kochel: There are toadstools that gobble up all this bs (aka alarmists). Climate changes like waves in an ocean. We currently live in a time where the wave is rising. I don't think it would be appropriate to call ou! r time wave rising. In fact it should just be called natural variation! . It rises and falls. It happens to be rising in last few hundred years generally with minor cool periods such as between 1940 and 1970s. Global warming isn't a scientific name, it is a pop name, meant to fool the gullible that any warming is the fault of man. Climate change has just expanded on that theme.
Ginny Trickett: On my understanding it is increasing global mean surface air temperature, principally on 'climatic' timescales of approximately 30 years, which has been happening for over 100 years and is almost certain to continue for over another 100.
Clementina Collelo: "The European Union needs to offer more money to developing countries to help them reduce carbon emissions as well as to cope with climate change, environmental groups said at a press conference in Paris on Wednesday (9 December)." Translation, we need more redistribution. I know we have been pretty consistent that AGW was a redistribution scheme all along and it is no surprise to us th! at their only real proposals are redistribution as we would expect from Marxists. This morning on the radio, I heard African nations were demanding to be compensated for the harm we were doing them. They will find lots of reasons why we need to transfer money but the bottom line is that they want to redistribute income and wealth. A frog hops and a Marxist redistributes wealth while lining their own pockets....Show more
Carlton Lastrapes: It is a criminal fraud perpetrated by ALGORE to get rich
Mark Villifana: No, because I don't like the idea of being poor. See the link below.Kevin M - We won't be able to afford those houses. Global warming will cause a worldwide Depression. Proof.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6096594.stm...Show more
Willetta Munhall: global warming is a hoax perpetuated by communists who have taken over the "science". If you pay a scientist or science department multi millions of dollars, they will "prove" anything you want! them to. And the truth is completely irrelevent to them.Bottom line - ! the globalists want to control everyone's energy use, push the U.S. and Europe back to pre-industrialization status, and completely wipe out the Middle Class.In fact, the simplest way to look at the global warming hoax is "End the Middle Class"
Rebbecca Sorkin: CO2, along with N2 and O2, is most concentrated near the ground. Low lying clouds have a cooling effect while high clouds have a warming effect. It seems to me that we should be helping developing countries build better coal plants to improve air quality and efficiency; this would have the best cost to benefit ratio.
Derrick Kloke: No but are you. I don't believe that global warming will destroy earth
Bryan Avinger: Capitalism must now undergo wealth redistribution to the 3rd world dictatorships, monarchies and tribal chiefs. After all? It's not 'fair' to force the 3rd world to industrialize and become 1st world nations by their boot straps. We must hand carry them into immediate 1st world nations.L! ike we've been fighting starvation in the 3rd world for decades. To no avail. All that wealth and food simply pours into 3rd world leader's pockets....Show more
Donte Schoenhals: The US already donates billions of dollars to go to help third world countries. I am all for giving to charity. BUT charity average around 80% of the money actually going to the people who need it. If you do any research at all, before donating, you can get this number of to 90% for money you would give. THIS, is something different, though. Just looking at the charitable aspect of this type of thing, its overhead is HUGE. Money is coming from large gov'ts to the UN, to go through committee after committee, until REALLY it just ends up in the hands of the dictators who are oppressing the people in the first place. And the money that gets to the people is being misspent anyways. They have the "hurricane proof" buildings built for some third world countries. Buildings with no walls, no p! lumbing and thus NO USE. In fact, they are being use to house the anima! ls, not the people (and they are really not even fit for the animals). Sooo, even getting past the BS logic that developing nations "deserve" our help instead of it REALLY being charity, the entire system is fatally flawed and will actually hinder the countries we are trying to help. Why? The US is far more charitable than most European countries, because our taxes our lower. Sure the European countries themselves give money, but the people generally do not, because they don't have as much money to give and they expect that this is part of what their tax money goes to anyways. But anyone who has done any research at all, KNOWS that charities are FAR more efficient than the gov't....Show more
Antone Youla: No. Underdeveloped countries like Indonesia generate huge amounts of CO2 by burning their fields after the crops are harvested and by burning forests to create more farm land. Just because a place has little industry does not mean in cannot be a major polluter.
Reginald Maxi: Yes , On Democracy Now this morning a ladie was protesting thatthat gender equality was not included in the 28 page ransom note .Bill McCribben was blaming floods (weather ) on Climate change .Mostly they were George Soro"s occupoopers there
Dan Seen: The UN, Al Gore, and other globalists just want to institute a global carbon tax and make carbon credits into a hot new commodity. Al Gore has already made million trading carbon credits, and when they're mandated by international law, he'll make billions. It is all a lie!
Jammie Taddei: Yes I am looking forward for the GLOBAL WARMING if the GLOBE was warmed more and more the CHENNAI which was in INDIA will be drowned so lot of people including me will die so it will be a good idea to know how the death is.
Alvaro Oare: You think you can outcompete organized inner city gangs when they are on the move hunting for food? The ex-marine down the street with a large milit! ary weapon collection? Local policemen as they band together to protec! t their families? Desperate refugees streaming across our borders? Good luck.Every major human civilization has passed. It appears that we're going to do it in a grand way that forces the planet to cull our numbers and take many species down with us. It may turn out that the theory that there was intelligent life on this planet may be disproven after all....Show more
Marcia Cheathan: Actually, we are still warming up form a period called the Little Ice Age. Most of our climate data is from only 40 years ago and less. A lot of government scientists are trying to find a link between man and this climate change but if you read the articles posted, you will find that natural forces have a stronger hand then man's. Take for example a strong El Nino causing the global average to spike. The AGW people use this to "show" that man caused it.
Cody Petrulis: I do not have an opinion on global warming. Science does not work by opinion. The evidence is quite clear th! at it is due to more greenhouse gases. This was formulated more than 100 years ago and the laws of physics have not changed. Now we do have more data and computers to analyze it. I do have an opinion- Maxx is delusional. There are still people who deny the moon landings occurred, so there is little hope of reason for deniers....Show more
Myesha Zerbe: yes i am looking forward to the thing that will ruin the world. JUST KIDDING OR BEING SARCASTIC. If we have global warming it will melt all the ice and the rest of the polar bears that are already becoming extinct. Then we would have to spend more money on air conditioning because it will heat up our houses. Also wild animals will become extinct because they will die of the heat. Also if they die we won't have any meat to eat and also the plants will die of too much heat. This evolution will not be a good one. People will get fatter because they don't want to go out in the heat...Show more
