Do you believe in Global Warming? Or alternate theories of it being a hoax? They say all those glacier melting and sea water level rising is just part of a natural cycle with or without human intervention.These are the reasons given out by AGW activists. Are there sufficient reasons to believe the other side of the story?

2. During the medieval warm period (820 – 1040 AD), Greenland supported farming. Those areas previously farmed are now covered in glaciers. Obviously the melting and reformation of glaciers is a cyclical occurrence.

3. The earth experienced a little ice age which ended around the late 1860%26#039;s or so. This is about the time man started recording temperatures. This would be like measuring a lake depth after a severe drought, then worrying about it flooding as it rose to normal levels.

4. The earth has been warming for the last 18,000 years, since the last major glacier time period. During this time frame, the glaciers have been melting at a fairly consistent rate. Also, for most of the last 1 billion years, the earth had NO glaciers or ice coverage.
http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/i...

5. The AGW theory states that CO2 is the primary driver of temperature. They arrived at this idea because they did not know of anything else which could cause it. But during the 70%26#039;s and during the current decade, temperatures dropped while CO2 continued to rise. This means that natural occurrences are driving temp, not CO2.

6. The Pacific Decadal Oscillation and sun spots provides a much better correlation to earths%26#039; temperature than CO2 levels ever have.
http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/200...
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/...

7. Polar Bears are experiencing a population boom. Coke sales in the arctics are through the roof. Polar Bears have been around for thousands of years, and remember, we are only at the average for the last 2,000 years. They lived through all the previously warmer climates. The original picture of 2 bears on a floating ice block was a complete scam. The photographer explained that the bears were in no danger and close to shore. The picture was lifted from a public PC by another passenger and sent around the world.

8. Many glaciers are expanding. Even Antarctica is growing on 98% of is land mass. Only 2% is melting.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1...


9. There is no consensus on AGW. This was a lie that has been propagated by the media.
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckt...

10. Yes we emit CO2 into the atmosphere and it is a greenhouse gas, but, we only contribute about .28% of all the greenhouse effect. Water vapor makes up about 95% of the greenhouse effect. CO2 and other trace gases round out the greenhouse gases at about 5% for all of them. Of that 5%, only 3% is CO2, and most of that is natural. Again, our contribution to the greenhouse effect is a paltry .28%
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenh...

11. The spread of disease is not attributed mainly to temperature. If this were the case, Florida would be a giant festering disease ridden cesspool. Economic standing is the primary determining factor in the spread of disease. Poor cultures can not fight the disease or eradicate the pests like more successful nations.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12077886...

12. Natural climate disasters (hurricanes, cyclones, etc) have never been scientifically linked to global warming (whether natural or man made).
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppa...
http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?i...




Last Glacial Maximum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacia...

Holocene Climate Optimum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_cl...


Roman links

http://raymondpronk.wordpress.com/2007/0...

15th temp spike

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news...

MWP data references

http://newsisaconversation.blogspot.com/...


Warm periods historical references

http://www.kolumbus.fi/tilmari/some200.h...

http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba516/


%26quot;May 19, 2008: The National Academies have released the 2008 edition of %26quot;Understanding and Responding to Climate Change,%26quot; a free booklet designed to give the public a comprehensive and easy-to-read analysis of findings and recommendations from our reports on climate change.%26quot;

http://dels.nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/clim... %26lt;== here%26#039;s a good description.
http://www.funnyweather.org/ %26lt;== this is a more lighthearted link.

http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/glob...
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwar...

http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/ %26lt;== not regulated by the government.

http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cn...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cn...

http://www.international.ucla.edu/articl...
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/clima...
http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/global_war...
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news...
%26lt;%26lt;%26quot;Barring a large volcanic eruption, a record global temperature clearly exceeding that of 2005 can be expected within the next few years, at the time of the next El Nino, because of the background warming trend attributable to continuing increases of greenhouse gases.%26quot; The eight warmest years in the GISS record have all occurred since 1998, and the 14 warmest years in the record have all occurred since 1990.%26gt;%26gt;

http://yosemite.epa.gov/OAR/globalwarmin...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...
http://royalsociety.org/downloaddoc.asp?... %26lt;== thanks Richard. very good.

What%26#039;s to lose ,if we clean up our atmosphere without hollering the sky is falling ? Think about it..New Industries..New Jobs..New Technologies....More Money ! In reality, there seems to be division in some scientific circles regarding the cause of global warming. I think both sides are at fault (natural/man- made). common sense/personal research

Its all a hoax. One volcano eruption emits more toxic smog than all of mankind througout history ever has. Also i have heard reports of some ice increasing. Kent hovind, Alex jones.

I guess I do, I think city buses ad to it and I also believe that all the space shuttles gong into space are cause some a lot of the problems but our government will never admit it

Man made machines generate heat their by increased global warming. DE

Yes.

Stop Global Whining.

I believe in global warming