Everything we make on earth is from the Earth, just in a different combination, I don%26#039;t see how that sooo draaasticalllyyy changes the Earth. Also, Earth goes through different cycles... There was an Ice age, There were droughts, and this is probably one of Earths natural cycles that it goes through.
If you can explain to me why you think it%26#039;s real, I might start believing. Thanks!
I suggest you keep up to date with both sides of the argument and let the truth guide you, not your heart.
Also below is a link to an excellent document by the NIPCC (a non-goverment based un-funded panel of top scientists) which considers all of the IPCC%26#039;s assertions and then un-biasly assesses them against all the available evidence:
http://www.sepp.org/publications/NIPCC_f...
There is No Global Warming Believers:
Many voices in the world strongly believe that Global Warming is not a real happening, but just a theory. There are facts that go against the theory of Global Warming. 95% of the greenhouse gases are actually water vapor, so only 5% can be other gases, such as carbon dioxide. In physics, ice gets smaller when it melts. Because a lot of the ice-bergs are already in the water, it would not rise at all, or rise approximately 0.008 inches a year. In many cases, it is carbon monoxide that creates carbon dioxide. Once the carbon monoxide is in the atmosphere, it gradually oxidizes into carbon dioxide. According to several ice core samples, it is temperature that is guiding CO2, not CO2 guiding temperature. An ice core sample is a cylinder-shaped section of ice that is from ice and snow that has compressed together. This tells the history of the gases in the air. In the world, climatologists only have 100 years of recorded temperature, which is not enough to prove that a global temperature is changing.
There is very good evidence that Global Warming, indeed, is happening. Seeing the polar ice caps and permanently frozen soil melting is one piece of proof that Global Warming is happening. Hurricane Katrina was another reason. It was a Category 5 Hurricane, the strongest of all. Hotter years and the bleaching of coral reefs is yet another large piece of evidence.
Most people think that Global Warming is a crisis. The severe effects scare the wits out of people and then believe in Global Warming. These are known as scare tactics, because they are ways of convincing people with the negative effects. Many strong leaders use forms of propaganda, like using cute pictures or terrifying scenes.
I have no opinion, but I am kind of on the %26quot;No Global Warming Side%26quot;... http://globalwarmingessay.googlepages.co...
Except for orbital forcing, nearly all other natural climate change is caused by changes in the Sun%26#039;s output. So we must ask, is the current warming due to the Sun? Or are we humans causing it by increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere?
It%26#039;s an easy question to answer.
2. If the Sun is causing the current warmth, then we%26#039;re getting more energy, and the whole atmosphere should be getting warmer. If it%26#039;s greenhouse, then we%26#039;re getting the same amount of energy, but it%26#039;s being distributed differently: more heat is trapped at the surface, and less heat is escaping to the stratosphere. So if it%26#039;s the Sun, the stratosphere should be warming, but if it%26#039;s greenhouse, the stratosphere should be cooling.
In fact, the stratosphere has been on a long-term cooling trend ever since we%26#039;ve been keeping radiosonde balloon records in the 1950%26#039;s. Here%26#039;s the data:
http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadat/images...
3. If it%26#039;s the Sun, we%26#039;re getting more energy during the day, and daytime temperatures should be rising fastest. But if it%26#039;s greenhouse, we%26#039;re losing less heat at night, and nighttime temperatures should be rising fastest. So if it%26#039;s the sun, the difference between day and night temperatures should be increasing, but if it%26#039;s greenhouse, the day-night difference should be decreasing.
In fact, nighttime temps have risen about twice as fast as daytime temps during the last 100 years. Here%26#039;s the data:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/gcag/GCAGdealte...
... and as a result, the daily temperature range has been decreasing throughout the 20th century. Here%26#039;s the science:
http://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?requ...
4. Total solar irradiance has been measured by satellite since 1978, and during that time it has shown the normal 11-year cycle, but no long-term trend. Here%26#039;s the data:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/SOLAR/solar...
5. Scientists have looked closely at the solar hypothesis and have strongly refuted it. Here%26#039;s the peer-reviewed science:
http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/media/pro...
6. CO2 levels in the air were stable for 10,000 years prior to the industrial revolution, at about 280 parts per million by volume (ppmv). Since 1800, CO2 levels have risen 38%, to 385 ppmv, with no end in sight. Here%26#039;s a graph showing the last 10,000 years of CO2 data:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3006/2615...
7. We know that the excess CO2 in the air is caused by burning of fossil fuels, for two reasons. First, because the sharp rise in atmospheric CO2 started exactly when humans began burning coal in large quantities (see the graph linked above); and second, because when we do isotopic analysis of the CO2 we find increasing amounts of %26quot;old%26quot; carbon combined with %26quot;young%26quot; oxygen. Here are the peer-reviewed papers:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1984JGR......
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mk...
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/ab...
@ Master_Beta: Sorry, but your entire answer betrays your lack of scientific education. Theories are not, as you state, %26quot;proven true or false.%26quot; No theory is EVER proven true, nor ever can be. Theories can, however, be falsified. So in my answer I%26#039;ve falsified two theories: one, the ice age theory, and to the solar theory.
If you have a real link to real science about these alleged %26quot;other theories%26quot; go ahead and post it. We%26#039;ve been waiting for real science from the denier crowd for, oh, about ten years now. And we%26#039;re still waiting. )
so basically the very gradual rise in temperature can melt the polar ice caps, which can cause some MAJOR problems such as flooding populated areas like New York and millions of other people%26#039;s homes.
We%26#039;re not powerful enough to quickly change the earth, but since we%26#039;ve been polluting ever since cars and factories and cigarettes were invented we%26#039;ve had plenty of time to gradually put enough CO2 in the air to make this a problem.
If you%26#039;ve got any more questions I%26#039;d be happy to do my best to answer them.