Global Warming: Fact or Fiction?

[Belac Enrobso]

Is Global Warming a legitimate issue that the world should be concerned with, or is it just a sham?

[Chad32]

The world gets hotter and colder in cycles, and the industrial revolution helped hurry the warming up along. The north pole is almost gone, but I don't think there's been ice in the poles since the beginning. Is the world changing? Yes. Should we try to do as little damage as possible? Yes. Are we going to have a worldwide flood if the polar ice caps melt? No.

[pineapplebunnybounce]

That is a factual question that has a factual answer. Read the IPCC reports, no opinion will sway facts.

[BrokenQuill92]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OA98hl7Q5dQ#

[c172]

I haven't read too much on the issue. My parents are environmental hobbyists. I'm not. I am tolerant of environmentalists, but I'm also tolerant of libertarians. We all have a right to pursue happiness, but it doesn't mean we'll all be happy all the time.

That said, in the past two years, I have been in two heat waves---one in Riverside, the other in Indianapolis, Indiana---where it got up to 106°F (about 42°C). The Riverside heatwave resulted in a trip to the ER for dehydration. I don't remember being in anything like that before in southern California or the midwest. There has to be some reason for it, and we're doing enough industrially that the global warming argument makes sense to me.

[StuW]

I'm on the fence leaning towards fact, but news articles like http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z0dUoPiTkG don't help with trying to determine the real facts.

[Ryantology]

The only reason it's even in question is because of heavily-moneyed interests insisting it is, in the face of tons of evidence.

[Raeven]

Nah. Nothing to worry about.

http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/global...human.html


Global Extinction within one Human Lifetime as a Result of a Spreading Atmospheric Arctic Methane Heat wave and Surface Firestorm

Abstract

Although the sudden high rate Arctic methane increase at Svalbard in late 2010 data set applies to only a short time interval, similar sudden methane concentration peaks also occur at Barrow point and the effects of a major methane build-up has been observed using all the major scientific observation systems. Giant fountains/torches/plumes of methane entering the atmosphere up to 1 km across have been seen on the East Siberian Shelf. This methane eruption data is so consistent and aerially extensive that when combined with methane gas warming potentials, Permian extinction event temperatures and methane lifetime data it paints a frightening picture of the beginning of the now uncontrollable global warming induced destabilization of the subsea Arctic methane hydrates on the shelf and slope which started in late 2010. This process of methane release will accelerate exponentially, release huge quantities of methane into the atmosphere and lead to the demise of all life on earth before the middle of this century.

[popeyespappy]

Anthropic global warming is a fact. Human activity is changing the composition of the atmosphere, and those changes are causing the planet to warm.

[Darth]

Oh were back to global warming are we? First it was global cooling, then warming, then climate change…

Get back to me once you're sure

And besides, people act like it's all bad news, it isn't: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotl...648481.stm