Global warming?

You have to realize that most of these documentaries are behind in the times. They were made around the time or near the time of Al Gore's hype hysteria, but since then we've learned that Al Gore lied at least 11 times in the movie, we've learned that this supposed guru of global warming is getting rich off this self made crisis. There's evidence from the 4 regional weather centers that temperature has pleatued since 1999 and gone down 1/2 a degree in 2007.

The polar bears drowning was made up, there's seemingly evidence from different groups that the polar ice caps are both shrinking and growing. Gee....back when i was a kid, science was proven and didn't lie, I guess everything is subjective in this new world order.

This hoax has killed people due to the fact we had to change product lines and make them out of inferior materials, we've been losing our liberties in a free country as the whacko's have told us what we can buy, and how we should live, and what products we aren't allowed to have. We've been lied to so often its almost a joke and a concensus world wide that a problem exists when there's absolutely no proof of it.

All we can do as individuals is not be so dumb as to fall for it.

I'm not saying be irresponsible or impractical, just stop messing people's lives up with a hoax. OR, give me the right to sue these people when the dust settles and the catastrophe never happends.

If you wish to receive grant money for climate research, do you think that you'll get a cheque if you say," I need the grant, as I think that I can prove that the figures that the current paradigm is based upon are wrong" ? The great environmentalist, David Bellamy, has been silenced, and refused airtime. There is still no proven causative link between the amount of Co2 in the atmosphere, and an increase in global temperatures. The WWWF photographs of the polar bears swimming were taken in the Arctic summer; when the ice cap partially melts, as they couldn't get up to photograph in the winter. The ice was too thick! The East-Anglian uni research figures. "Oh! The figures don't match our expectations. Oh well. Keep quiet. Because we know that we are right." When the belief, and the faith is more important than squarely facing the legitimate doubts of a lot of non grant-supported scientists, science has been superceded by religious zealots. As Oliver Cromwell colourfully said." I pray thee, in the bowels of Christ, consider that thou mayest be wrong."

It has to do with the albedo, or reflectivity, that the polar ice provides. When you learn about Global Warming, im sure you were taught about the Greenhouse Effect, where sunlight gets reflected after it hits the Earth. THe sunlight the striked the Earth is reflected by the ice, like a huge mirror, because it has such a high albedo. When this ice mealts to, due to Global Warming, the less reflectivity is taking place. This is why the ice melts at an exponential rate, because there is increasingly less ice to reflect the sun. The absence of ice is why this planet is warming.

it's a proven fact that thermomites, a microscopic organism that, either by blowing or farting, make it warmer or colder, like the cooler temperatures of the poles.

unfortunately, until recently, in the absence of lukewarm cream of wheat with strawberry jelly (their favorite food) they fed off of whales, penguins, and seals killed by man. this, too, has all but stopped.

in the absence of their two natural foods, they've been forced to live off of the only other natural resource grown at the poles, pinto beans.

thusly, they've developed a terrible case of gas and have been farting uncontrolably for years, thus causing the rising temperatures at the poles.

by no means am I suggesting killing endangered species, no matter how fun it might be. I merely suggest we increase the import of lukewarm cream of wheat with strawberry jelly to the poles. This will immediately end global warming, balance the environment (and the budget), stop male pattern baldness, and result in ultimate world peace, which the stinking Canadians will probably breach because they get really cranky when they're cold.

Some say greenhouse gases but I think that a 2 degree increase is not that big of a deal. The Earth has always gone in cycles of cold to hot. It was way hotter when the dinosaurs roamed the earth and then we had an ice age. So who is to say that the Earth isn't naturally going to get hot again.

we don't know. just like we don't know what caused the exceptional cooling & growth in the ice in the antarctic at the same time as the warming & melting in the arctic last year.

it may be something that has always happened periodicly but we never had any way to check on it until we launched new satellites recently. for example we have no data from most of the region from 30 years ago.

Global warming

Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-twentieth century, and its projected continuation.

The average global air temperature near the Earth's surface increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the hundred years ending in 2005.[1] The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes "most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-twentieth century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic (man-made) greenhouse gas concentrations"[1] via the greenhouse effect. Natural phenomena such as solar variation combined with volcanoes probably had a small warming effect from pre-industrial times to 1950 and a small cooling effect from 1950 onward.[2][3]

These basic conclusions have been endorsed by at least thirty scientific societies and academies of science,[4] including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries.[5][6][7] While individual scientists have voiced disagreement with some findings of the IPCC,[8] the overwhelming majority of scientists working on climate change agree with the IPCC's main conclusions.[9][10]

Climate model projections summarized by the IPCC indicate that average global surface temperature will likely rise a further 1.1 to 6.4 °C (2.0 to 11.5 °F) during the twenty-first century.[1] The range of values results from the use of differing scenarios of future greenhouse gas emissions as well as models with differing climate sensitivity. Although most studies focus on the period up to 2100, warming and sea level rise are expected to continue for more than a thousand years even if greenhouse gas levels are stabilized. The delay in reaching equilibrium is a result of the large heat capacity of the oceans.[1]

Increasing global temperature will cause sea level to rise, and is expected to increase the intensity of extreme weather events and to change the amount and pattern of precipitation. Other effects of global warming include changes in agricultural yields, trade routes, glacier retreat, species extinctions and increases in the ranges of disease vectors.

Remaining scientific uncertainties include the amount of warming expected in the future, and how warming and related changes will vary from region to region around the globe. Most national governments have signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but there is ongoing political and public debate worldwide regarding what, if any, action should be taken to reduce or reverse future warming or to adapt to its expected consequences.

Actually the ice on the polar icecaps is thicker than it has been in quite some time. The earths system is in a constant state of change. It warms and cools and has for as long as it has been here. Even when the great iceages came, it swung back the other way. If CO2 is the biggest cause of global warming, everyone that is screaming bloody murder should stop polluting our planet and hold their breath.

gosh...i really dont know. nice Q.

Every part of d Earth is experiencing increase in temperature n different impacts present in these areas.

mebbe the Arctic shows rapid rise of temperature coz of hot air rises?! thts not so logic rite?!!

i really dont know.

a star frm me n looking foward for a proper answer too.

good day :)

I'm gonna buy some beachfront property in Anchorage soon.

http://www.stuffintheair.com/global-warming-unstop...

Some people feel that it's hopeless and inevitable.