Do you think Global Warming is real?

Global warming is unequivocal: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A2.lr...

Sure it's real. And IF the problem is caused by humans, then a solution would be to get rid of humans, or at least 1/2 of the human population. Right? Think about how beautiful the world would be without the destructive forces of humans. :)

Fact is, Humans don't OWN the planet.It's not OURS to manage. We can't "save the planet". The GW mantra is really about the threat to humans, and saving real estate. Doesn't this seem backwards? To protect the very cancer that's causing so much damage?

Just my opinion, but I think the planet will survive just fine - without us. Personally I think humans will be extinct (or near extinct) within the next 1000 years anyway.

BTW, the "Y2K" computer bug was also a "real" threat too. Gee... Nothing happened. Hmmm...

It is definitely not a myth.

However a lot of people and companies have potential benefits in the exaggeration of global warming. There are many huge billion dollar industries that thrive off environmental regulations and consumer 'worries' about the need for sustainable development.

So the odds are that Global Warming has and will be overestimated..

Yes. Temperature data shows that we have risen about 1 degree over the last century. The question is what caused the global warming.

@benjamin we need a much longer graph than that to get any idea of what's been happening.. climate change takes longer than a century. you want a graph like this http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holocene_Te... ain't nothing scary about it when you look at the larger scale.

i don't believe in global warming. studies have shown that the northern ice caps have lost something like 8% of their mass in the past 30 years, but the southern ice caps have grown 40% of their mass.

another point is that the carbon footprint left by volcanoes, animals, and nature in general is significantly larger than what all our industry produces.

even if climate change is occuring, it wouldn't be the fault of man.

However many people are making a killing off of the fear caused by this hoax. Hybrid cars, energy saving bulbs, windmills, solar panels. Going green is just the mainstream media using fear to stimulate the economy.. which would be fine if it wasn't such a con.

I am NOT a republican, if that's what you're thinking. I am a non-partisan anarchist.

recurring question. here's my recurring answer:

There is an outstanding summary of the situation in December 18 SCIENCE, free download

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/326/596...

That’s … sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/326/5960/1646

Presidential Address:

Reflections On: Our Planet and Its Life, Origins, and Futures

James J. McCarthy, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography at Harvard University

An outstanding, well-referenced, review of the situation. It’s all there; history of the global warming concept, role of solar fluctuations, the actual temperature record with ranking of years, the extent to which predictions since 1995 have been justified and indeed amplified by events.

And where that's taking us.

The National Academies Press has released a book (free online) discussing the climate for the past 2000 years, and how well we know it: Tree rings, ice cores, error bars, the lot:

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11676

That’s

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.

php?record_id=11676

And God and Sheep and Amanda: if you believe what you're saying, with not an accurately reported scientific reference among all of you, you've been conned

Is it real? Sure. But as Benjamin's graph points out, it's risen less than 1 degree in over 100 years. Cause for concern? Maybe, but the Earth's temperature has ALWAYS fluctuated (see: Ice Age).

The next thing you have to look at is, "Is it man-made?" Though we're scared into believing it is, there is absolutely zero proof of it. Especially when you consider scientists in the 1970s said burning CO2 was going to cause another Ice Age, because the temps were cooling.

The very simple answer to the less that 1 degree change in temperature can be attributed to solar variance.

Here some facts that look at some of the "scare tactics" and where we're at today:

1) Sea levels will rise and flood the coasts.

Quick multiple choice. If the entire Arctic Ice Pack melted, how much would sea levels around the world rise?

A)4 inches

B)A foot

C)2 feet+

D)Exactly zero because I’m not an idiot and I understand Archimedes Principal

Hope you picked D.

http://www.seed.slb.com/v2/FAQView.cfm?I%E2%80%A6

2) Himalayan Glaciers are melting.

“The UN’s top climate change body has issued an unprecedented apology over its flawed prediction that Himalayan glaciers were likely to disappear by 2035.”

“The 2007 report, which won the panel the Nobel Peace Prize, said that the probability of Himalayan glaciers “disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high”. It caused shock in Asia, where about two billion people depend on meltwater from Himalayan glaciers for their fresh water supplies during the dry seasons.”

“It emerged last week that the prediction was based not on a consensus among climate change experts but on a media interview with a single Indian glaciologist in 1999. That scientist, Syed Hasnain, has now told The Times that he never made such a specific forecast in his interview with the New Scientist magazine.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/en%E2%80%A6

3) Polar sea ice levels are decreasing

Although the website claims these numbers are below normal, we only have to look at the recent numbers.

Arctic sea ice extent averaged over December 2009 was 12.48 million square kilometers (4.82 million square miles), 210,000 square kilometers (81,000 square miles) above the record low for the month, which occurred in December 2006.

I don’t know guys, looks like they’re now INCREASING.

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

4) The Polar bear population is decreasing due to loss of Arctic Ice.

"In the 1950s the polar bear population up north was estimated at 5,000. Today it's 20- to 25,000, a number that has either held steady over the last 20 years or has risen slightly. In Canada, the manager of wildlife resources for the Nunavut territory of Canada has found that the population there has increased by 25 percent."

http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/

“Not so fast. According to a U.S. Senate and Public Works Committee report, the “alarm about the future of polar bear decline is based on speculative computer model predictions many decades in the future. Those predictions are being “challenged by scientists and forecasting experts,” said the report.”

“Harry Flaherty, chair of the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board in the capital of Iqaluit, says the polar bear population in the region, along the Davis Strait, has doubled during the past 10 years. He questions the official figures, which are based to a large extent on helicopter surveys.

“Scientists do a quick study one to two weeks in a helicopter, and don’t see all the polar bears. We’re getting totally different stories [about the bear numbers] on a daily basis from hunters and harvesters on the ground,” he says.”

http://www.examiner.com/x-32936-Seminole%E2%80%A6

Yes, and so do the vast majority of the most informed scientists studying the evidence:

A poll taken of actual working scientists contacted in North American research stations reveals that 97% of the most informed scientists (the ones actually performing climate research and publishing results) say that mankind is causing warming:

http://tigger.uic.edu/~pdoran/012009_Doran_final.p...

i think its real, all of the theories that people have about burning fossil fuels, gas, polution, etc. all make sense and the ozone layer has actually gotten weaker. im pretty sure global dimming has been proven, and i dont get what more proof people need about global warming, but its there and its only gonna get worse until everyone tries to make a difference.

The myth is that man is causing "climate change" or "global warming' That poor theory is not accurate and should be repudiated.

http://www.nationscrier.com/index.php?option=com_c...

Also, See O-Baa-Maa's answer for more excellent info.

Well who knows if it is real?

Some scientists have the wrong technology and

some technology can tell us if the earth is

healthy or not.

I dont have any sources, but I know there is a lot of stories to each side.