Poll: Do you believe in Global Warming?

[Analog]

Is it really caused by man-made emissions from burning fossil fuels, or a natural course of the earth's temperature swings over eons.

 

[dartworth]

I do not believe in polls.

 

[Spoooon]

I think that, since it may be due to man-made emissions, we should be smart about it and learn to do things cleanly and efficiently just in case.

 

[Zim Hosein]

No, it is a natural phenomena - a cycle of the earth's temperature swings

 

[Feldenak]

Natural climate swings. We're about due for another ice age and the global temperature always rises prior to an ice age.

 

[DT4K]

I'm not convinced.
The scientific evidence is suspect.
But I don't deny that it is possible that our pollution has had an effect.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

There are cycles of global warming and cooling. We are in a cooling period right now. Glaciers are advancing. That doesn't mean that there is abnormal long term warming now, and there is.

-A geography major

 

[IGBT]

Rotational wobble...

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
There are cycles of global warming and cooling. We are in a cooling period right now. Glaciers are advancing. That doesn't mean that there is abnormal long term warming now, and there is.

-A geography major

geography or geology or meteorology?

 

[Maverick]

I think its pretty obvious that its happening...anyone who denies it is leaving in a dream world. You can't possibly think the way we treat the environment like sh!t is going to have no side effects.

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: Maverick
I think its pretty obvious that its happening...anyone who denies it is leaving in a dream world. You can't possibly think the way we treat the environment like sh!t is going to have no side effects.

I see the Greenpeace propaganda is working.

 

[Nebor]

Al Gore invented global warming shortly before the internet.

 

[SirStev0]

Originally posted by: Nebor
Al Gore invented global warming shortly before the internet.

amen

 

[PatboyX]

global warming exists, of course. it is a natural condition. but that process may be aided by emissions. that is relevant only so far as i dont really want to live on venus.

 

[digitalsm]

No, it is a natural phenomena - a cycle of the earth's temperature swings

 

[FoBoT]

these threads really bring out the zealot greenies



the planet works on really really looooong time cycles, a couple hundred years is nothing

just remember, dilution is the solution!

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
these threads really bring out the zealot greenies



the planet works on really really looooong time cycles, a couple hundred years is nothing

just remember, dilution is the solution!

Yes a couple of hundred years is nothing. That's why you should be alarmed when temperatures change drastically on such a small time scale.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
There are cycles of global warming and cooling. We are in a cooling period right now. Glaciers are advancing. That doesn't mean that there is abnormal long term warming now, and there is.

-A geography major

geography or geology or meteorology?

Geography .

 

[Jeff7181]

When Mt. St. Helen erupted, it spewed more harmful crap into the atmosphere than man (and woman for all you politically correct people) ever has. I don't believe it.

 

[Miramonti]

The majority of the scientists around the world who study it believe in it and the data for it.

Thats good enough for me.

 

[IEatChildren]

Global warming is ridiculously overrated. Temperatures taken in so-called global warming polls are taken in major metropolitan centers.
This is a major bias because the rest of the world is getting colder.
It's true that there is a greenhouse effect in major cities due to pollution, but "global warming" in itself is a myth.

 

[nCred]

Originally posted by: IEatChildren
Global warming is ridiculously overrated. Temperatures taken in so-called global warming polls are taken in major metropolitan centers.
This is a major bias because the rest of the world is getting colder.
It's true that there is a greenhouse effect in major cities due to pollution, but "global warming" in itself is a myth.

Where did you get this information from?

 

[Chaotic42]

My calculations predict a spike in the Earth's temperature in about 5,000,000,000 years.

 

[Ryan]

Mostly natural warming, but could possibly be slightly increasing due to green house gasses from humans.

 

[Miramonti]

global warming theory is bad, pollution is good.