Do you believe global warming is real? Why or why not? And if yes, are humans the primary contributer to it?

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• Possitively, the US is the only country where there is doubt. Scientists are virtually unanimous.
  We contribute with millions of tons of CO2 emissions, and by cutting down trees, the reason that there is free O2 in the atmosphere to begin with. 0% 0 Votes
  
  http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf
  
  It%26#039;s (mostly) not the sun:
  
  http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/sgw_act...
  
  And the first graph aboves shows that the sun is responsible for about 10% of it. When someone says it%26#039;s the sun they%26#039;re saying that thousands of climatologists are stupid and don%26#039;t look at the solar data. That%26#039;s ridiculous.
  
  Science is quite good about exposing bad science or hoaxes:
  
  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/ATG/polywater...
  
  There%26#039;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 %26quot;conspiracy%26quot;. Just three examples of many:
  
  %26quot;Global warming is real, now, and it must be addressed.%26quot;
  
  Lee Scott, CEO, Wal-Mart
  
  %26quot;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.%26quot;
  
  Senator John McCain, Republican, Arizona
  
  “DuPont believes that action is warranted, not further debate.%26quot;
  
  Charles O. Holliday, Jr., CEO, DuPont
  
  There%26#039;s a lot less controversy about this is the real world than there is on Yahoo answers:
  
  http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/a...
  
  And vastly less controversy in the scientific community than you might guess from the few skeptics talked about here:
  
  http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/fu... and:
  
  %26quot;There%26#039;s a better scientific consensus on this [climate change] than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton%26#039;s second law of dynamics. Global warming is almost a no-brainer at this point,You really can%26#039;t find intelligent, quantitative arguments to make it go away.%26quot;
  
  Jerry Mahlman, NOAA
  
  Good websites for more info:
  
  http://profend.com/global-warming/
  
  http://www.realclimate.org
  
  %26quot;climate science from climate scientists%26quot;
  
  By the way, I can%26#039;t believe anyone is still recommending the %26quot;swindle%26quot; movie, which has been thoroughly refuted.
  
  It is simply a political statement which distorts science.
  
  %26quot;The science might be bunkum, the research discredited. But all that counts for Channel 4 is generating controversy.%26quot;
  
  http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climat...
  
  Gore%26#039;s movie may be a little over dramatic, but it has the basic science right. This movie does not.
  
  Channel 4 itself undercuts the movie in a funny way. If you go to their website on the movie you find links to real global warming information. They also say %26quot;Confused now? Ask the Expert.%26quot; The link for questions goes to a respected mainstream scientist who supports (mostly) human responsibility for global warming.
  
  No one with any knowledge about global warming believes it. 10% 1 Vote
  http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/default...
  www.climatecrisis.net
  http://www2.oprah.com/tows/slide/200704/...
  
  2 cartoons making fun of global warming
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIJZ4d892...
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLW2T3QgJ... 0% 0 Votes
  
  Global warming is mostly human caused, due to putting large amounts of greenhouse gases into the air. The most important of these is carbon dioxide created by burning of fossil fuels.
  http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Ima... 10% 1 Vote 0% 0 Votes
  And another video for those of you short on time: http://www.friendsofscience.org/index.ph...
  Some more general resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warm...
  http://www.friendsofscience.org/index.ph...
  http://www.john-daly.com/
  
  CO2 is not causing the globe to warm the opposite is true, the warming is increasing the atmospheric CO2. When the world heats it gradually increases the temperature of the oceans which serve as the largest CO2 sink. As the oceans heat up they release CO2 which is stored in them. The information comes from the same data Al Gore uses, the temperature always goes up before the concentration of CO2 goes up.
  http://www.lavoisier.com.au/papers/artic...
  
  CO2 makes up only .03% of our atmosphere. Water vapor, another greenhouse gas, makes up 1-4% of our atmosphere, this gas is acknowledged to be the main greenhouse gas. All human activities combined contribute only 6 Gigatons of CO2 to the atmosphere each year. Animals, through respiration, decomposition, etc contribute 150 Gigatons of CO2 to the atmosphere. So humans contribute only a small amount of CO2 to the atmosphere which is already in very small concentrations in the atmosphere.
  http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/science.html This is where my data came from, it is an interesting site, it displays the same graphics as Al Gore in his movie but it tells how low the human contribution is. So Al Gore is using the same data but coming to a different conclusion, who do you want to believe a politician with no scientific training or the NASA CO2 laboratory, a group of scientists who spend their entire careers studying CO2.
  
  We know the greenhouse effect is real it is a necessary effect to keep our planet at a habitable temperature. However if our current warming is due to greenhouse gasses it would cause warming in the troposphere , but the troposphere is actually getting cooler.
  http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/temperature... That points to other explanations to our current warming.
  
  So what is causing our current warming, it is the sun.
  http://web.dmi.dk/solar-terrestrial/spac...
  http://www.aip.org/enews/physnews/2003/s...
  http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/06...
  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...
  http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/...
  http://www.globalwarming.org/article.php...
  The fact that only the earth’s surface is warming points to direct heating from the sun rather than heating due to greenhouse gasses. Also other planets in our solar system are warming pointing to a common cause of warming, that common cause being the sun.
  http://www.livescience.com/environment/0...
  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...
  http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/sola...
  http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/sola...
  
  The global warming crowd says our glaciers are melting and animals will suffer this is another false claim.
  http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2Sci...
  http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA235.htm...
  http://www.worldclimatereport.com/
  
  The global warming crowd also claims a scientific consensus on the issue, this is wrong in two ways. One, there is no consensus, this is a false claim to make you believe in global warming by suppressing the opposition. http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm
  Second, even if there was a consensus it would mean nothing, science is not politics, you don’t vote on theories to determine their legitimacy.
  Here’s 21 pages of websites that disagree with global warming.
  http://www.climatechangedebate.org/docum...
  The thought that the only scientists who disagree with global warming are paid by oil companies is simply a stupid statement with no reality. This is the most illogical argument by people in support of global warming. Aside from being completely false it begs another question: Who pays global warming supporters? The answer is big environmental agencies that make millions off of global warming each year by teaching, publishing books, and selling environmentally clean products.
  
  The IPCC is the main supporter of global warming, their statements are defended blindly by people who don’t want to admit that global warming is not real. People will claim that they took into account natural sources of CO2, they didn’t. Take a look for yourself:
  http://www.ipcc.ch/activity/srccs/index.... That is the latest IPCC report, read the entire report, do a search of the documents, there is absolutely no mention of natural sources of CO2. The natural sources have been completely ignored. Also people will claim that the IPCC took the sun into account in their report, this is not entirely correct, while the sun is mentioned the report it’s effects have not been accurately represented.