Global warming is a theory - how certain must you be in order to act? 50%? 70%? 90%?

Global Warming is not a gamble, though. I'm afraid your analogy is a bit flawed in that respect. Global warming is proved. Now, the only criteria of the warming left to be proved is the rate of destruction the warming causes.

I agree with you, wholeheartedly, in asserting that NOT paying attention to the information and data available to us is simply "rolling the dice." Unfortunately, humanity is desensitized to subtle changes. Unless the changes are in our face like an exploding car on the freeway or a building bursting into flame, or guns blazing in our ears----society will not be interested in listening.

First of all, the human race would actually have to be interested in reading a book, publication, or article that doesn't have pictures or doesn't revolve around Dr. Phil, Oprah Winfrey, or what rich celebrity has divorced their spouse to have an affair with someone else.

I applaud your question. I also grieve about the answer. The majority of the human race doesn't care----period. If the changes that will be a global killer are not slated in the T.V. Guide to be accomplished in the spans of their lives, then they have no vested interest.

Global warming is a theory, yes, however u must know that in science everything is called theory - theory doesnt meant that it may be wrong. In other word theory is just a way of calling scientific principle and has nothing to do with reliability. For example human have two hands will be considered a theory as well under the scientific system even though it is 100% certain. Global Warming is real - it has been shown in scientific data that global temperature is increasing every year. What we are not certain is its impact on us (remember, in the past there are times when the world's temperature is much higher than it is now - we have actually just leave an ice age). In other words, we are 100% sure global warming is happening - we just disagree on what to do about it, what its impact will be, what will happen, and whether this is a good thing or a bad thing.. Global warming cannot be simplified into a gamble or a pot - it is way, way more complex and it's not just whether to take action or not (which is the only two outcome in the gamble) but it's more about what action to take, etc.

I don't believe most people who say that global warming is not real or is just natural actually believe that. Why would they possibly think they actually know more about the subject than the large majority of the leading climate scientists of the world who are now almost in unanimous agreement that temps are rising faster than a natural cycle would produce and that humans are most likely the cause. No, these people simply don't care because they will not be around to face the consequences and they truly lack the ability to think long term and globally. They probably care little about what happens farther away than the street they live on.

People who call it fuzzy science should research the scientific journals themselves. Doubt that will happen. There is no fuzziness there.

Twenty years ago, the same people telling us about global warming were warning about "global cooling" and a new ice age within a hundred years. We still have another 80 years to go before we know 100% whether that prediction was right.

Today, some of the same people who said in 1976 that the earth was cooling, and in 1996 said that it's warming, now say that it's cooling. They say that the Atlantic Conveyor, which drives the Gulf Stream, will stop because of "global warming," causing northern Europe to turn frigid and trigger another ice age.

In gambling parlance, that's known as hedging your bets, so that you can't be wrong.

Like they say around here, if you don't like the weather, you just have to wait a minute. (giggles)

Global warming IS NOT a theory. It is happening right now. People are taking action right now to try to end global warming. Al Gore's movie An Inconvienent Truth, MTV has a website Break the Addiction, as well as many others. People are trying to stop global warming before we reach the point of no return with it. Before all we can do is watch are earth go to ****. It doesnt take much at all to get involved. I would spend and/or want my country spend any amount necessary to stop it, so when I have children and they have children etc. I want them to enjoy everything possible about this beautiful earth. Do some research about this. Google it.

Sorry, pal. It's not as black and white as you are trying to paint it. Let's assume we do believe global warming exists. We also have to believe that Man had anything to do with it. We also have to believe that it is even a bad thing, i.e., is .2 of a degree really going to matter? And then we also have to believe that the investment in correcting the problem (again assuming it exists) will have enough of an impact to warrant the cost to civilization.

When you factor in those variables, you can't blame people...like me...who want to see more definitive proof than what your group has offered us so far.

Get back to us when it is more than just "fuzzy" science.

While we are going through global warming, there's no amount of money that can be spent to prevent it. If you look at the history of the planet, the planet goes through regular cycles where it warms up and cools back down. We are in the warming period of one of these cycles, but the temperature is rising higher than is has in the past. On the other hand, having ice caps is unusual for the history of the planet as well. We might just be heading back to normalcy...a very hot, miserable environment.

exciting. i hit upon it confusing to contemplate the data while maximum of political factions submit records on their web pages. an in depth pal is a chemical engineer and has accomplished very a great number of reading on the project and believes there is something yet consensus. His take is that it somewhat is plenty extra complicated than the scientific community knows. isn't it remarkable how some human beings call it a fact? i do no longer understand of something scientific that develop into no longer a fact sooner or later and fiction the subsequent. this is consistent in technology. i think we could desire to continually act in a in charge thank you to maintain our planet sparkling as a results of fact this is the perfect element to do. no person is for pollutants, and that i think of many all of us is getting extra attentive to chemical aspects, and so on that are only risky. Al Gore does no longer understand extra beneficial than any scientist, and he's making a living from it. If he have been a Republican, each and every liberal at here could blast him as a profiteer, so because it somewhat is a reason this is skeptical. we are going to see. the main serious situation is oil dependency. we are enriching our enemy, and we could desire to develop into self sufficient.

World has warmed up and cooled many times before, I would be more worried about global cooling, and there must be some positives about the planet warming.

Well put. I think the problem is too many people are 100% certain it won't effect them in their lifetime. Only possibly later, and they would rather somebody else pay for it, even if its their great great grandchildren.