What is the real story on Global Warming?

United States
January 20, 2008 9:22am CST
We've all seen and heard the stories about global warming. How many of you actually believe it is as big of a problem as it is being made out to be? Where I live, we are currently having one of the coldest winters I can remember in 25 years. This kind of makes me believe that we are just in a cycle. Every so many years we experience the same weather patterns. Global warming... fact or fiction, Truth or scare tactic?
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@lucgeta (924)
• France
20 Jan 08
Prince Gustaf Channel - A completely ice-free channel where before the ice slope could be seen to rise to well over 100 feet (30m) altitude into the distance (and 9 to 10 times that thickness under the level of the sea).
It might not have de-iced your driveway, thou it is certainly breaking huge of Antarctica and the North Pole. Some regions are now accessible by boat where before it was needed to walk for days. These huge icebergs then melt in the ocean and some islanders are feeling the sea level rise. Some people might even enjoy a warmer summer while some might starve due to draught. Some people won't mind a winter a bit colder while some are not prepared at all. The average increase does not tell all the story: the truth is the oven and the freezer are to the max and the room temperature goes up a tidy. For every hottest summer in decades a coldest winter will follow, animals that need a environment temperature to live well will perish. Humans have a constant body temperature so we don't feel that much. The causes I will leave it open, we are seeing the consequences.
• United States
25 Jan 08
you are both right...perhaps we will see the consequences, if we haven't aready. and maybe the "bigger cycle" you talk about may only be sped up by today's pollutions ?
• United States
25 Jan 08
I still believe it's part of a bigger cycle. There just aren't records that go back to before the ice age.
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• Indonesia
20 Jan 08
After I read your post, I was very intrigued. Its very interesting. Since i dont know any other story about Global Warming than the Global Warming came made from the polutions that human made, the nature destruction, and bla..bla..bla, I just wanted to say that what you have said could be considerable as a side story.
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• Indonesia
20 Jan 08
I meant "the other side of the story"
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• United States
20 Jan 08
Well, I guess the point I'm getting at is that take the polar ice caps. Science has already proven that it all melted off once. Continents separated, ect ect.... What if it really is just one bigger cycle? Maybe we're headed for another serious melt, and then it will cycle back around to how it is now? What is their reasoning for the first melting on the ice caps thousands of years ago? Wouldn't that have been global warming too? But what caused it, because it couldn't have been polyflorocarbons, or emissions from cars, they didn't exist.
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@men82in (1268)
• India
20 Jan 08
Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation. In the last 100 years ending 2005, the global air temperature near the Earth's surface rose 0.74+-0.18 degree celcius. In November 2007, the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Center for a New American Security published a report highlighting the national security effects of climate change.These security effects include increased competition for resources between countries, mass migration from the worst affected areas, challenges to the cohesion of major states threatened by the rise in sea levels, and, as a consequence of these factors, an increased risk of armed conflict, including even nuclear conflicts.
• United States
20 Jan 08
This is my point. There are all these assumptions out there. Armed conflict, nuclear conflicts.... Sounds like hype out of Washington to me. If global warming is indeed happening, why hasn't the ice melted in my driveway from the storm in mid-december? I've never had it stay on the ground this long. The stats you quoted sound to me more like just one other organization that wants money for research for scientists and the research ideas are created by scientists looking for a job. Why not play on people's fears.
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