Do you think global warming is real?

Yes, I have a pulse and at least a couple of brain cells.

It doesn't take much time on Google to see the lack of science against global warming, the evidence showing it, and to see the special interests funding the false appearance of controversy. The denial is just like the PR campaign waged for decares by the tobacco industry. It even involves some of the same people.

Yes, it's a serious issue. Recent indications seem to be that the pace and effects of global warming have been dramatically underestimated in the 2007 IPCC report.

I could care less about someone's scheme to postion their product (clothing or anything else) as friendly to global warming. The bottom line is that producing and shipping anything requires energy, which threatens our survival.

when you ask this question is there not text underneath which shows that it is asked every 30 minutes

you would have thousands of answers with out loosing a point

so at the risk of being repetitive

i will say that

Global Warming is true, there are Natural fazes but we are affecting that to a great extent ,with deforestation ,desertification and pollution., especially air pollution.

A few weeks ago one of NASA's top scientists concluded that the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free within five years, much faster than all previous predictions.

when the north pole is gone , you may have polar bears soon in America ,looking for a home ,

Calculations do not include the accumulative ,speeding up ,factor with time. the increase in water temperature will get faster all the time as well as the melting, when the ice is all gone the deeper cold Ocean currents will be drastically affected,which in turn will affect the warm currents,since all moving bodies of water are connected in series.

This will affect coastal climates ,world wide ,almost instantly. All aquatic flora and fauna will be affected,many dying off and others becoming invasive,

And recently In Chiapas ,and Tabasco in Mexico .more then a million people became homeless overnight with water coming up to their roofs ,because of rains from super evaporation from the forests,this had never happened before. Millions of animals died.

In India 3000 people died because of super storms .

.A few years ago in Europe 3500 people,died during a heat wave ,many of them in France .

Right now the average death toll annually is 150.000 due to Global warming

. these figures are already out of date and are expected to double soon.

In Northern China millions of people are running for their lives because regular dust storms so far have buried 900 villages under the sand and the whole of northern China is turning into a dessert.

The Sahara is growing by 7 kilometers a year all around the edges ,like a slow burning fire shriveling up their neighbors In the Kalahari huge rivers have dried up and thousand of species are gone due to their habitats disappearing .

The biggest changes are invisible at micro biotic levels species are becoming extinct ,others are multiplying ,

This affects the insect populations that follow ,and changes in that ,affect all that follows in the food chains ,

All life is interrelated of both flora and fauna, And since we are on the top of the food chain ,

we are always the last to know.

So Global warming has its toll there are incidents all over the world ,

However

confusion rules the day ,i am beginning to think that SCIENCE HAS BEEN INVADED WITH POLITICS AND HUMAN EMOTIONS

The truth is being distorted at high levels,

And lies have been weaved in.

Some of the real dangers are being hidden because there are no solutions , Public could panic.and Authorities would loose control .

Besides Corporations have other priorities and changes will cause loss of profits ,this also affects the truths being published

Others facts are exaggerated so that the phenomena can be used to milk the people.

This is further complicated with Arrogance that will not admit that mankind could be guilty, or that Gods could be out of control ,unloving or incompetent

But I do not think we can make a real difference anymore to change the tide.

On a Global scale,Humanity is not co operative enough .

The poor regions have other priorities such as daily survival.

There is a lot we can do about being more responsible with what we got ,

In the first world countries many do not care or are more interested in Global Control than Global Warming.

It is real. but how real is it? Earth is not the only planet experiencing the meltdown, Mars too. If you've been following the news, you can tell that ice is melting pretty fast at the poles even in countries near the poles. EU has been warning the world about this. This phenomenon is largely due to human activities, if u think that the scientist are still arguing over this issue, then u r wrong. Most have reached a consensus that we are the culprits. Check out the figures, the amount of carbon that we're releasing is tremendous. Though the IPCC doesn't agree that our world will be flooded, I'm seeing a lot of flooding lately, i'm not talking about some trivial half-day kind of flood, I'm talking about neck-deep floods that can kill you. I don't think this precess is reversible at all, the damage has been done, and you know what, it is getting worse. So, what we can do now, is to just wait and watch, and get ready to adapt to it. sooner or later we'll have to face it.

I think that global warming exists but not caused by humans it's a natural clycle and humans don't affect it as much as people say. "State of Fear" by Michael Crichton and a document called "The Global Warming Swindle" are good sources about global warming.

I believe it's real. Just look at the news, ice bergs that have melted so quickly, polar bears who died swimming searching for ice for them to stay, stronger hurricanes/typhoons (hot water increases its strength), carbon emissions (yes there is a natural cycle and at certain point the carbon in the atmosphee rises but this time there's a lot more than the natural process), higher temperatures reocrded worldwide (like the 10 hottest years ever recorded happened just within 20 years from this date), a lot more flooding etc.

Even if it's not real, what's wrong if we change our ways, it won't hurt. We can change at least the easy ones like, don't use too much paper, too much plastic bags, etc.

No.

It's just the latest in a long line fashionale fads.

As always the truth is for more complicated and messy.

Basicly, climate change (warming or cooling) is inevitable and it is not manmade and worse there is nothing we can do to change it.

No! Global warming does not exist. Global boring does, however, exist.

Real, mostly caused by us.

This is science and what counts is the data.

"I wasn’t convinced by a person or any interest group—it was the data that got me. I was utterly convinced of this connection between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change. And I was convinced that if we didn’t do something about this, we would be in deep trouble.”

Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, USN (Ret.)

Former NASA Administrator, Shuttle Astronaut

Here are two summaries of the mountain of peer reviewed data that convinced Admiral Truly and the vast majority of the scientific community, short and long.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:Climate...

http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html

summarized at:

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/a...

There's a lot less controversy about this is the real world than there is on Yahoo answers:

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/ho...

And vastly less controversy in the scientific community than you might guess from the few skeptics talked about here:

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

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/570...

"There's a better scientific consensus on this [climate change] than on any issue I know... Global warming is almost a no-brainer at this point. You really can't find intelligent, quantitative arguments to make it go away."

Dr. Jerry Mahlman, NOAA

Good websites for more info:

http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/f101.asp

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/

http://www.realclimate.org/

"climate science from climate scientists"

http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/...

No its not real,and clothing,what a hell of a marketing platform.You were right Mr Bailey**

It's real, and it's natural. It's no more of an issue than planning your wardrobe for the season ahead.