Global Warming: Major Problem or BS?

%26quot;This consensus is represented in the IPCC Third Assessment Report, Working Group 1 (TAR WG1), the most comprehensive compilation and summary of current climate research ever attempted, and arguably the most thoroughly peer reviewed scientific document in history. While this review was sponsored by the UN, the research it compiled and reviewed was not, and the scientists involved were independent and came from all over the world.%26quot;

%26quot;The conclusions reached in this document have been explicitly endorsed by ...%26quot;

Academia Brasiliera de Ciências (Bazil)
Royal Society of Canada
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Academié des Sciences (France)
Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (Germany)
Indian National Science Academy
Accademia dei Lincei (Italy)
Science Council of Japan
Russian Academy of Sciences
Royal Society (United Kingdom)
National Academy of Sciences (United States of America)
Australian Academy of Sciences
Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts
Caribbean Academy of Sciences
Indonesian Academy of Sciences
Royal Irish Academy
Academy of Sciences Malaysia
Academy Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

%26quot;In addition to these national academies, the following institutions specializing in climate, atmosphere, ocean, and/or earth sciences have endorsed or published the same conclusions as presented in the TAR report:

NASA%26#039;s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
State of the Canadian Cryosphere (SOCC)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Royal Society of the United Kingdom (RS)
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
American Meteorological Society (AMS)
Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS)
If this is not scientific consensus, what in the world would a consensus look like?%26quot;

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/0... The Cold Truth about Global Warming by Joseph Romm

%26quot;The big difference I have with the doubters is they believe the IPCC reports seriously overstate the impact of human emissions on the climate, whereas the actual observed climate data clearly show the reports dramatically understate the impact.%26quot;

%26quot;One of the most serious results of the overuse of the term %26quot;consensus%26quot; in the public discussion of global warming is that it creates a simple strategy for doubters to confuse the public, the press and politicians: Simply come up with as long a list as you can of scientists who dispute the theory. After all, such disagreement is prima facie proof that no consensus of opinion exists.%26quot;

%26quot;So we end up with the absurd but pointless spectacle of the leading denier in the U.S. Senate, James Inhofe, R-Okla., who recently put out a list of more than 400 names of supposedly %26quot;prominent scientists%26quot; who supposedly %26quot;recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called %26#039;consensus%26#039; on man-made global warming.%26quot;

%26quot;As it turned out, the list is both padded and laughable, containing the opinions of TV weathermen, economists, a bunch of non-prominent scientists who aren%26#039;t climate experts, and, perhaps surprisingly, even a number of people who actually believe in the consensus.%26quot;

%26quot;But in any case, nothing could be more irrelevant to climate science than the opinion of people on the list such as Weather Channel founder John Coleman or famed inventor Ray Kurzweil (who actually does %26quot;think global warming is real%26quot;). Or, for that matter, my opinion -- even though I researched a Ph.D. thesis at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography on physical oceanography in the Greenland Sea.%26quot;

%26quot;What matters is scientific findings -- data, not opinions. The IPCC relies on the peer-reviewed scientific literature for its conclusions, which must meet the rigorous requirements of the scientific method and which are inevitably scrutinized by others seeking to disprove that work. That is why I cite and link to as much research as is possible, hundreds of studies in the case of this article. Opinions are irrelevant.%26quot;

Skeptics say it is a hoax and global warming is caused by the sun. Nope! and Nope!
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/11...

Some people imagine that it is funded by the U.N. and is therefore slanted. The U.N. has nothing to do with the research, they just fund it and facilitate meetings etc. The scientists work independently. And are from all political persuasions and nations and religions.

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/12...

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/arc...

Actually the solar factor has been overcompensated for in their calculations and they still came with the sun only contributing 0-10% over the last 50 years or so. http://www.reall.org/newsletter/v06/n08/...

http://environment.newscientist.com/chan...

http://www.logicalscience.com/skeptic_ar... 0% 0 Votes

BS and you expect people too stop driving cars or use electricity why would we do that too ourself too stop the ineviteable the sun has always been getting closer too the earth since the beginning of time the human race will survive for millions or possibly billions of years 0% 0 Votes

possible global cooling, major problem 0% 0 Votes

Some might say natural climate fluctuation. It is but natural for the earth to undergo climate fluctuations. Ice Age came in...but at a very slow pace, say like a shift that may have taken thousands of years. But the glaciers melting at a speed of 15 kilometers annually. Ice age came at a speed of a snail, the global warming is a runaway train by comparison. I think that%26#039;s phenomenal indeed...but not natural Major problem. Big time 0% 0 Votes

Major Problem 0% 0 Votes

bullshit
dont forget to give me thumbs up and best answer 0% 0 Votes

it has been proven that the temperature has lowered 1oc since the last 100 years or so, i think it%26#039;s not global warming, it%26#039;s just weather that%26#039;s plain CRAZY!