What is your opinion on global warming?

[CrazyKittyLady]

What is your opinion on global warming?

It exists

It doesn't exist

other

[Lliam]

It's a fact. Sea temperature is warming. Sea levels are rising. The hydrologic cycle, wind patterns and climate zones are changing. Climate is being effected. If one looks at the science, there's no question that human activities are responsible for the rapid changes.

CO2 is only one factor. The Earth's ecosystems can absorb CO2, except we are destroying the Earth's ability to do so by bull dozing forests, grass lands, wetlands, and especially tropical rain forests.

As temperatures in some regions rise, methane that has been captured for thousands of years in the soil and under ice is released. Methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.

All this activity creates a feedback loop that, at some point, becomes impossible to stop.

If people don't think humans can effect the climate enough to create climate change, I wonder if they thought it would ever be possible to kill our oceans. Yep. We've just about accomplished that in the past 100 years.

[abc3643]

It most definitely exists and the scientific basis for it goes all the way back to a paper by Nobel Prize winning chemist, Svante Arrhenius in 1896.
www.bbvaopenmind.com/.../

This is the original 1896 scientific journal article:
www.rsc.org/images/Arrhenius1896_tcm18-173546.pdf

On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground
Svante Arrhenius
Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science
Series 5, Volume 41, April 1896, pages 237-276.

[abc3643]

I have had a BS in physics for the past 34 years. The physics that explains global warming (and it is global warming) is so basic that it is the same exact physics that explains the atmospheres of both Mars and Venus. This physics is not that intuitive to a lay person, but, to a minimally competent physicist, it's all very easy to understand.

[AuroraRoseat]

There is concrete evidence that the planet is warming faster than it should thanks to human intervention such as the destruction of important ecosystems (wetlands for instance), development of technology that outputs dangerous chemicals etc. Global warming is simply ONE symptom of anthropogenic climate change.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm_YoL9ykC4

[goaded]

I like NdGT's comment that the military and insurance companies agree there's no question. Hell, Trump's trying to build a sea wall designed to protect one of his golf courses from “global warming and its effects.”, in Ireland. www.politico.com/.../donald-trump-climate-change-golf-course-223436

[AuroraRoseat]

It's crazy and sad...

[Ava01]

It Real We’re seeing as it happens. Some people wanna stick their heads in the sand act like it’s not their just to turn a profit.

[Ava01]

Thank You Very Much For MHO

[rokn69]

I'm afraid that you have things backwards. Its the people who are saying that it exists that are turning the profit. Who do you think is paying those scientists?

[jessicarosen]

He11 yeah, Ava, you are so right!

[OlderAndWiser]

We are approaching summer so I am against it. In the late autumn, I will be in favor of it.

[Phoenix98]

A lot of people fail to realize and understand that global warming and cooling is actually a natural and necessary process and is something that has been happening long before humans ever had the capability to affect the climate in any kind of negative way. Something confirmed by quite a few climate scientists who aren't bias or bought and paid for by politicians.

Think about it, all the anti-global warming people will say that the water levels rising is bad but is it? The coral reef thrives in high water levels and actually requires it to survive because it can only thrive and grow in higher water levels, low water levels actually kill the coral reef and restrict it's growth.

Polar environments and species require global warming for polar regions and species to expand and grow. And this is not only so that can have environments to survive in but also so their numbers can increase. But this serves a secondary purpose which is so that they have enough land and numbers to survive global warming periods where warm/tropical environments and species can do the same thing as the polar/cold ones did.

If you actually go back and look at history you can find quite a few examples of global warming and global cooling periods that happen every X hundred years and last for a X amount of years. It's necessary to maintain balance in the environments and eco-systems so that one type of environment doesn't overtake the other and wipe out the other.

[TheOneAndOnlySimon]

Heavy amounts of warming do not help out polar regions... Did you make a typo and say warming instead of cooling? Polar species such as seals and polar bears rely on sea ice as a natural barrier... it's what keeps seals out of the teeth of killer whales.

And the issue that has people concerned isn't that we're in a period of warming as part of the natural cycle of things, it's that the introduction of pollutants into the environment where they hasn't existed in thousands of years as part of the cycle will cause permanent shifts and an imbalance. So where we had let's say a spectrum of -500 to 500, soon we'd have one of -400 to 600, which means that even in the normal cycle of warming and cooling there would be permanent damage... I can agree that if the spectrum was -500 to 500 and we're at let's say 400 knowing we'd go back down eventually then there'd be nothing to worry about, but the way things are looking we might break off of that routine... scary thoughts

[Phoenix98]

@TheOneAndOnlySimon My bad yeah I must have miss-typed that part about the global warming helping out the polar regions that was meant to be global cooling helping out the polar regions. Thank you for catching that.

Well yes and no the issue with that is that there's evidence to support that pollution isn't affecting the climate in the ways these people think. And a lot of these global warming people don't stop and think or even consider why global warming and cooling happens in the first place. And I've seen several climate scientists even state that there isn't enough evidence to show whether or not humans are having the negative impact on the climate that people think we are.

I can if you'd like give you some videos backing up what I said and they are actual climate scientists who are saying these things, so you know the info is legitimate and not just my opinion. Though I must warn you one is like an hour long and the other I think is 2 or more hours long.

[HungLikeAHorsefly]

Lolz it doesn't matter what I think. It's happening, and humans are the reason.

Full disclosure: I used to work on a research team at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). So I guess I'm one of these lucky people who got paid to pull off a global conspiracy.

[Jackblue]

It exists, though from what I can tell the effects nowadays are mostly positive, eventually things will turn negative, but by that time I feel we will have developed alternative energies especially nuclear fusion. Some gas taxes are good, but I don't believe that we should drastically change our way of life. Some people seem to not only believe that global warming will end the world as we know it, but actually want it to. Movies these days promote post-apocalyptic wildness as if it was a good thing.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Is global warming real? Yes i believe it is
Scientific consensus is overwhelming: The planet is getting warmer, and humans are behind it.

www.nationalgeographic.com/.../

[Anonymous]

It's a very good thing if you're smart and think ahead. Some places will be underwater some places whether would change a lot where the people won't like it anymore other places weather is going to greatly benefit.

Take for example the last time the climate change the Sahara Desert used to be a tropical paradise pretty much all the deserts are going to become tropical again.

So if you own land in the desert and it becomes tropical and all this other Land is damaged or underwater or experiencing hurricanes all the time you make it a 100 times return

[IeatChickenandFish]

Global warming does exist BUT not in the way people see it.

Global warming is something we as a human race DO contribute to, but on a scale that is a billionth of a decimal.

What is causing it? Its just nature, why do you think the ice age came? Was it because the apex animals of that time contributed to it? No. Earth has gone through thousands maybe millions of changes, and we are just witness to ONE.

This topic has been going on for decades, and decades more to come.

In all senses, the people talking about it are scamming you to pay more taxes because they are elitist pos. They don't know the science around it, nor do the people they are telling it to, hence why the phrase "fear is the salesman" is so true.

[starfyredragon]

"Humans have minuscule impact" are words spoken only by those who have never taken a moment to seriously contemplate at an image of what the dark side of Earth looks like from space.

This is NOT what a "minuscule impact" looks like:

[HungLikeAHorsefly]

Yeah, cuz out of the 1,600 some-odd climate scientists working in the world who think humans caused global warming, not one of them ever had the idea that it might be a natural cycle. Not one. Even though they all study natural climate cycles. Never occurred to any of them. But that's the first thing lay people with no training, experience or knowledge of the field thought of.

[IeatChickenandFish]

I'm so apalled by the scientists' replies

[goaded]

Why? Because they don't respect your talking points based on lies?

[buttcrackjoe]

Hundreds of years of greenhouse gas emissions don’t just disappear. We can thank the oceans for absorbing a lot of it for us. We are doing better with PV becoming cheaper and more mainstream. Eventually we will figure out how to be carbon neutral we humans are the best animals when it comes to manipulating nature to our whim to solve problems. Better to take steps to protect the earth regardless of your belief in anthropogenic climate change.

[No_Archons]

I just hope y'all know the danger of the carbon tax and what it will do. by the way, we can never be carbon neutral, LIFE IS NOT CARBON NEUTRAL!!!

[abc3643]

@No_Archons Life has been carbon neutral for 4 billion years.

[buttcrackjoe]

@No_Archons im not avocating a carbon tax that’s ridiculous just that we embrace technology and allow the cost per kw/h for renewables to continue to decline. Government subsidies and taxes are not the answer as this is theft but when renewables become cheaper than fossil fuels we will see a market driven transition.

[No_Archons]

Ur right. Life ain't carbon neutral, but thats not important. The path to green energy must be market driven, because right now its fking horseshit, I know there are suppressed. technologies, solar. and wind are a joke'

[goaded]

@No_Archons A carbon tax is to make the market more favourable to renewables, the solutions themselves will be market-driven.

How are solar and wind power a joke? They provide over 25% of power in Germany, 34% if you include biomass (plants use solar energy to grow).

[mattdzz]

All these talking head ideologues, who haven't done a thing but reiterate the talking points of scientists, who are reiterating the views of other scientists, ad infinitum.
I believe it does exist, but is far more a natural cycle than caused by humane activity, but just in case we should take steps towards curtailing this including cutting the birthrate in India and Sub-Saharan Africa.

[rokn69]

Who do you think pays those scientists to do the research? Wake up man.

[Deathraider]

There is no opinion. It’s a fact that Global Warming exist.

[No_Archons]

someone already said it below, so I don't really need to be here, but just to show support...

it is a huge scam to extract more money and push social agendas. Just the next boogey man to keep the population scared, and when they are scared, they can be easily manipulated

inb4 hoards of low iq folk calling me names for speaking the truth

[_乃尺OЩ刀_TITI]

Oh jizz. When I saw the question, I was expecting an opinion on how to tackle it not whether it exist or not!

[CrazyKittyLady]

Lol!

[RawIronhide]

I think that turm is a misnomer, climate change due to carbon emissions is more accurate. I don't know to what extent humans are accelerating the neggitive affects but I don't think it's disputable thate there are accelerating affects.

[Anonymous]

I will freely admit that I haven’t done much research on the subject but I think it says something about it if scientists have predicted global warming to have a devastating effect happen at least fifteen years ago the first time and kept bumping it up every five years and here we are not destroyed.

It also says something if politicians nowadays started calling it climate change as if to imply that it could be warming or cooling. The fact that they can’t keep their story straight kinda says something.

You can’t keep everyone from leaving a carbon footprint without compromising the technology we have created that greatly expanded our life expectancy, it’s impossible. If it’s real it’s probably gonna happen anyway.

Also, is it bad that I don’t care? It’s probably because I lost my will to live a while ago. If anything watching the world end might be the most exciting thing I will ever experience.

[goaded]

I think the move from global warming to climate change was because a couple of degrees warmer sounds quite nice to people in temperate areas, and bearable to people in warmer areas, but it doesn't capture the reality of more and deadlier storms (powered by warmer seas), flooding from melting ice in Greenland and the Antartic, and droughts or floods (or both) where there had rarely been any before.

If every south-facing roof in the United States was covered with photovoltaic cells, how would that reduce anyone's life expectancy? How would closing down coal mines and fracking reduce anyone's life expectancy? Not breathing poisoned air and drinking poisoned water usually improves life expectancy.

[Anonymous]

Big BS to charge everybody more tax.

There is other proven theory why it is happening, that nobody talking about as there is no more money in forced taxes in there and it makes all global warming big scam BS.

Just look at biggest polluters, they are not interested in all that and do not even supporting it.

[JayParris]

Sums up my opinion pretty well

[goaded]

What do you think that proves?

What I see is that it's been mostly cooler than now, sometimes slightly warmer, but it went down again. I think your point is that it didn't kill off all apes that could cook, back when there were thousands of our ancestors around, not billions.

All human civilisation is at the very far right, after the last ice age.

Also, that graph's from 2008, ten years ago. Since then, there have been eight hotter years. All of those previous peaks would be much nearer the line, maybe even below it, if you made the same graph today.

[JayParris]

@goaded it proves that the temperature spike we're seeing now is a normal part of climate trending.

[Phanta]

Global warming certainly exists. It's probably better to call it climate change. However, it is not posing such as speedy threat as many Democrats make it out to be. That causes many Republicans to deny the reality of climate change.

[Anonymous]

I think it is real but it is also blown out of proportion to get attention drawn to it and the nutty fixes the Left wants.

The high end increase in the seas in 2100 was said to be 3 feet or 1 meter. Now they want to make it double that as it would impact many more people. This is done for effect and attention.

[goaded]

Or, possibly, because of more data.

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded @goaded Not more data. 1 meter was the UN high level. But when you review the maps of projected flooding it isn’t so scary. So they doubled it. They would live to say it will be a mile deep but it is all just to scare people.

New technologies such as better batteries and solar energy panels will overtake the main contributors of warming in the next 30 years and all will be well. The plastic pollution is a bigger issue I think as the work becomes richer and more people want items covered in plastic wrapping, carried in plastic or simple made of plastic. That will be solved too though. They even have had a recent breakthrough in biodegradable plastics this month.

[goaded]

Of course it was new evidence.

"... new research suggests this estimate is too conservative. There have been reports of the rate of glacier melt in Greenland and Antarctica is accelerating at a faster than expected rate. According to the authors of the new study, there have been advances in modeling of ice sheets since the IPCC report was released. The world is facing a risk of sea level rise “substantially higher than were in the 2013 assessment report of the IPCC,” Kopp says.

The study took into account “new observational evidence” in Greenland and Antarctica, which Kopp says helps “play an important role what the worst-case scenario might be.”"
time.com/5592583/sea-levels-rise-higher-study/

[Anonymous]

Now I know most people out there see it on the news all the time so they believe Global Warming is real 100% but I am skeptical because years ago scientists said it was Global Cooling and the opposite was happening. Scientists today are saying ridiculous things like there are 99 genders so that makes scientists way less truthworthy for all we know it could just be the weather.

[goaded]

THE MYTH OF THE 1970s GLOBAL COOLING SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Vol 89, No 9
journals.ametsoc.org/doi/10.1175/2008BAMS2370.1

Science gets closer to the truth every day.

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded It's not a myth they actually said it was global cooling. Also today scientists are saying there are 99 genders and your sex and gender are separate which is not what they said before and it is also totally ridiculous so how am I gonna trust scientists ever again if they say there are 99 genders? They are lying now so why would they not lie about something else?

[goaded]

You obviously didn't look at the PDF of the whole paper I linked to. It reviewed papers from 1965 to 1979 and found 7 suggesting cooling, and 44 suggesting warming (and 20 that were neutral). journals.ametsoc.org/.../2008BAMS2370.1?page=8

Or, you did, but you deny facts, facts like global warming.

[SuccessfulHornDog]

It exists and is measurable but the cause is conjecture and the forecasting models are nothing short of propaganda