global warming!!!!!!!!!?

Hong Hunkin: Oceans are the largest surface area of earth. Their temps. shall have more influence on the overall global temps.

Joan Stavropoulos: An understanding of physics, familiarity with atmospheric CO2 changes, and knowledge of fossil fuel production statistics.

Spencer Heidtbrink: Irrelevant.We are experiencing a collapse of the food chain due to over-population growth.More people, the faster the collapse. When the population goes over 7.7 billion (low) to about 10.0 billion (high), there will catastrophic collapse of the food chain.We need to reduce head count in the entire world.The collapse will be quick. But when it does, it would be quick and very nasty as people start fighting for food and I don't mean 3rd world countries, I mean everyone everywhere.People won't care if it's global warming or not global warming, there will be no food to sustain all of us.When will this tipping point occur? No one knows, but as the population grows, we will hit ! it."Soylent Green may not be just science fiction soon..."How's that for a scary thought......Show more

Marcelle Vanlith: The oceans mainly appear to function as a way to slow global warming, by trapping the heat in the vast quantities of water that we have, and by the ocean currents, which help to rapidly transport that heat energy to areas where it can more efficiently be radiated back into space. As you probably know, there are heating, and cooling cycles, largely dicated by sunspot activity, although currently, we are in a phase of sunspot activity which should correspond to very cold weather, and we've got hotter weather. The belief is that this is either some strange fluke, or that the carbon emissions from fossil fuels which until now had trapped large quantities of greenhouse gasses is causing the warming. Different models show all sorts of possible alarming roles the ocean could play in the process of global warming. The most basic, and obvious issue is that ! coastal areas are the major spots for photosynthetic organisms! . Tidal wetlands, river estuaries, coral reefs, and kelp beds are where a majority of the ocean's oxygen-producing organisms live. Global warming causes the ice caps to melt, which raises sea levels. Changing sea levels make it difficult for the plants which produce photsynthesis to keep doing things the way they always have. Depending on how fast silt deposits in estuaries and deltas, these places can acutally flood over, killing the land-based plants that were working there. Likewise, rising sea levels can eventually block out the light to kelp beds and coral reefs. If this happens gradually, chances are that the plants and other photosynthesizing organisms will just re-colonize areas higher up, but if it happens fast, they may just get killed. Killing off the plants that get rid of CO2 is bound to have an effect on global warming. Changing sea temperatures pose different hazards. A lot of photosynthetic organisms also just float around near the ocean's surface. Since sea! water transfers heat very well, there are vast patches that haven't had a significant change in temperature for centuries. A big enough change could actually burn up all those organisms. Some people have noticed that coral reefs are dying off, and worry that this is the reason. At the bottom of the ocean, the issue is different: It's so cold down there, that methane freezes. Natural gas pockets that were underwater have formed huge beds of frozen methane ice. Methane is a short-lived, but very powerful greenhouse gas. If the temperature gets hot enough in the water, these will start to melt off, and get into the atmosphere, thus raising temperature rapidly. The other issue is the deep ocean currents. These currents are driven by heat, and salt differences, so changes in temperature might affect how they move. These deep ocean currents produce upwellings of nutrient rich waters in coastal regions, so stopping the currents would cut off a huge food supply to the coastal cora! l and kelp bed communities. Changing the currents might also make the o! cean less efficient at transporting the heat energy from the area where the sun is shining to darker, cooler areas, where it can be radiated back into space more efficiently.

Gaynell Pizzaro: I believe in "global warming" - however I do not subscribe to the popular belief that this state is the fault of man.Throughout time there has been temperature changes on Earth - notable the Ice Age....Not just the ice Age but there have been periods when we have had long hot summers, and others when there has seemed to be little change between the seasons.No sign of global warming in many springs when frost has been on the ground until May.From the 19th until the 20th centuries when mills spewed out sulphurous smoke along with millions of households in the UK alone..there was no evidence at that time of global warming - i can only conclude that the present warming of the Earth is no more than as normal cycle....Show more

Pearlie Medora: The water creates moisture in the ai! r, which cool's the earth's climate down. Global warming makes the oceans expand and raises sea levels because of melting ice.

Stanton Degregorio: The oceans have 300 times the heat content of the atmosphere. The atmosphere is at the mercy of the oceans, it's not the other way around.

Caterina Yeargan: I believe we are expeiriencing weather changes in the climate. Not to forget allergy season is coming earlier. Last Snow storm was about up to 2 inches unlike in 2005 there was an amount of almost a foot.

Jorge Gerrero: in case you opt to acquire furnish money for climate analyze, do you think of which you will get a cheque in case you assert," i choose the furnish, as i think of that i will practice that the figures that the present paradigm relies upon are incorrect" ? the great environmentalist, David Bellamy, has been silenced, and refused airtime. there continues to be no shown causative link between the quantity of Co2 in the ambience, and a upward p! ush in international temperatures. The WWWF pictures of the polar bears! swimming have been taken in the Arctic summer season; while the ice cap in part melts, as they could no longer upward push as much as image in the wintry climate. The ice replaced into too thick! The East-Anglian uni analyze figures. "Oh! The figures do no longer tournament our expectancies. Oh properly. save quiet. using fact all of us understand that we are suitable." while the notion, and the religion is greater significant than squarely dealing with the valid doubts of a superb form of non furnish-supported scientists, technological information has been superceded via religious zealots. As Oliver Cromwell colourfully reported." I pray thee, in the bowels of Christ, evaluate that thou mayest be incorrect."...Show more

Dick Ovdenk: The ocean is the engine that drives our planet’s climate. From the 2nd link below: The ocean has absorbed over 80% of the excess heat produced by the greenhouse effect and roughly half of the carbon dioxide (CO2) we have pumped into th! e sky. Consequently, the ocean has warmed steadily over the last 50 years, especially at the surface. This has led to the melting of polar ice, rising sea level, loss of coastal habitats, coral bleaching, and a likely increase in the intensity of hurricanes. These are but a few of the serious consequences for the ocean.From the 3rd link:Recently it was found that the Southern Ocean, the most important "carbon sink" of all the oceans, has greatly slowed its uptake of carbon dioxide because of climate change. The absorption of heat and carbon dioxide by the oceans is currently slowing the effects of global warming; however, the oceans are becoming overburdened and may not be able to perform this function for much longer.One could write a book about this -- I'm sure someone already has or will -- so will stop here. But check out the links below. Some duplication of information, but the message is the same: the oceans are a major player in what's unfolding.

Vida Miss: h! ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming

Elfreda Grossen: Yes,T! he present Global Warming is a reality but its causes are still to be understood.Urbanisation induced terrestrial reflection of radiation or albedo has increased with “Improvement of Quality of Life” and to some extent this is responsible for shifting of weather and climatic patterns. However, it cannot be said with certainty that the present Global Warming is a result of increase of albedo only. The total annual Sun's radiation to earth and total annual evaporation from earth seems to have not changed significantly and similarly total annual precipitation has not changed except local shifting patterns.To me main cause could be short period climatic aberrations or changes within the “Inter-Glacial” period we are living in. The earth’s history is punctuated with such short period climatic imprints within Glacial and inter Glacial periods before “Man” entered this arena.Thnks...Show more

Shandi Wedge: EverythingThey bring warm air to places tha! t are cold, eg EnglandWhen the ice caps melt the release of fresh water in the ocean will stop the currents and stop bringing warm air to places. The world will freeze

Peter Lapoint: & why do you believe this way?

Jacinta Moitoso: When the polar caps melt, that is a good definition of global warming. also the glaciers and ice caps on the mountain tops are melting and volcanoes have become more active. I do not believe it is man made although we humans are not helping the matter in any way. Common sense tells me that the world wide rerouting of major water ways has done more to bring about global warming than anything else we could have done. Of course no country will ever agree.

Filiberto Ranalli: The oceans store massive amounts of heat for hundreds of years. When more solar energy reaches the ocean, as it has for the past few decades, it warms the water and circulates all over the world. In the past few years, solar energy reaching the surface of the oc! ean has declined, but the oceans have already stored much heat and they! take much longer to cool than the atmosphere. They cool by evaporation and that adds water vapor to the atmosphere, which acts like a greenhouse to help slow the heat loss. The next two solar cycles have been forecast to be much weaker than they have been for 200 years, so we can expect the cooling to continue if the forecasts are correct.

Kalyn Proietto: Yes, they certainly can. People can become kinder or less kind; more thoughtful or less thoughtful. They have their destiny and character in their own hands - although the actions of other people can alter the course of their lives.

Sylvie Snetting: Yes, I absolutely believe we are having global warming. Why? Because the OTHER planets in our solar system are warming up also. This is a totally natural cycle of our sun.I do not believe man is causing global warming. I DO believe man is poisoning the heck out of the world. Many of the efforts to stop global warming also help reduce poisons released into our! air, water, and earth....so you might say I'm all for global warming.~GarnetHomesteading/Farming over 20 yearsP.S. The earth is either doing one of two things...warming, or cooling and heading into an ice age. Global warming is actually much friendlier to our environment, than an ice age....Show more

Alisa Kaleiwahea: I choose to read the opinions of scientists.They tend to have the more believable opinions on matters of science...If someone wants to listen to the right-wing nut jobs who seem to think their political opinions make global warming a myth, then they should go right on ahead and do that.Edit: [re: Percussim's answer]>> I know they are onto a fiddle because they always blame air planes.I think you are confused. It's the science deniers who constantly whine about those who accept the science flying here or there...>>The 777 is the most efficient passenger carrying vehicle man has ever made. It gets about 90 miles per gallon per passenger,Is that fully l! oaded with passengers? Hate to break it to you, but my car comfortably! seats 4 and by my calculations that makes my miles per gallon per passenger 120+. Now I could actually carry 5 people, but that's pushing it. Hell, my truck loaded with 5 people gets 90 miles per gallon per passenger.>>Indeed the greedier of them travel worldwide at your expense to their summit conferences on pollution in the very same planes.See? >>Look at what a man does, not what he says.Cool, I'll just completely ignore everything you say and continue to accept what the scientists do.>>It only refers to the weight of air that is going through the engine because the fuel is so minuscule as to not effect the thrust equation.Except for the tiny fact that the engine would have 0 brake horsepower without the fuel. You do understand that any piston-driven engine is also just an air pump when you remove the fuel from the equation, right? Neither one turns all by themselves...>>Furthermore they use photos of fossil fuelled power stations for their propaganda as well and ne! arly always show huge chimneys belching white "smoke" - those are the cooling towers and the white stuff is condensed pure water cloudLet me guess... We can just throw the fuel out of the equation there because the turbines actually generating the power are water pumps?>>but both pictures (chimneys and jet engines) will convince an unwary non engineering public which it is all aimed at.I think that any real engineer [or just little ol' me...] could tell you exactly how much CO2 is emitted when a given quantity of fossil fuel is burned and calculate how much CO2 is emitted annually from various sources [such as jet fuel or coal] based on how much of said fuel is burned annually.>>Then genuine engineers and scientists are scorned as conspiracy theorists.I scorn people as conspiracy theorists when they claim that scientists who accept AGW are "paid scientist puppies".>>They always play the man, not the ball - it's characteristic of the deceitful.I'm sure that makes sense some! where in your head, but I'm not getting it.I find it deceitful to claim! that fuel isn't an important part of the equation when calculating the dynamics of a jet engine..._...Show more

Arnette Dominici: New England should get it's first snow before January. Maybe the sun got bigger or the planets shifted, too. I believe it's too warm and I am not qualified to fix that problem.

Francis Stickle: we really are experiencing global warming.First, the changes in temperature. Temp. drops in countries were it's not supposed to be that cold on certain seasons. It's either too hot or too cold.Then flash floods everywhere. In the US for example, there are states that don't really get flooded, but now they have flash floods alot. Another is the issue of Tornados. In the Philippines, even in areas where tornados have little or no chance to be formed actually occurs. It already has destroyed homes & livelihoods....Show more

Elbert Donatelli: Everything you hear about Global Warming has to be taken with grain of salt. We know so very litt! le about the actual history of weather and climate that anything about global warming can only be theory.Is the Earth warmer than it was 50 years ago, Yes. But it also should be noted that the output of the sun has also increased over that same period. Could that be the reason, very much so. It only take a small change in the sun's output to alter conditions here on Earth. There have been studies done, remotely mind you, and astronomers have noted an increase in temperature on our planetary neighbors, specifically Mars, Venus and Mercury.So we still should be mindful of what we are doing to our planet, but the planet's greatest polluter is still the planet itself....Show more

Ronnie Sardi: they are one of the two key things, the other is the land. Air temperatures mean nothing. We have been using diving temperature records in the ocean and the latest dat says the oceans waters are not warming up. so, this means the whole earth is not warming. Look up the heat c! apacity of the air and its density., then look at water and land. A 1 ! degree change in air temp is equal to a .000001 degree change in water and land. So, yes water means the most.

Luana Carothers: I don’t believe in man-made Global Warming because the advocates of Global Warming have no empirical science to back their claim. And their advocacy movement has been mired in scandal since its beginning. Here are some things you should know:1) The Earth has been both much warmer and much colder in the distant past, long before the industrial age. Climate is indeed changing, but it has always changed and probably always will. These are obviously natural cycles that man does not and cannot control.2) Global Warming alarmist have been caught in one lie after another. Huge scandals have been continuously revealed since the early 1980’s when the campaign began. Some of these are listed below:3) Al Gore’s movie "An Inconvenient Truth" was full of bald faced lies. Like the Polar Bears were drowning, or the Ice Caps were melting, or the ocean! s were rising --- all lies. In fact a court of England ruled the movie was so flawed that it could not be shown to school children without a disclaimer.4) The ClimateGate affair exposed the utter corruption of the Warmist community with their exposed emails speaking of how they intended to “hide the decline” and how to manipulate data and the peer-review process in their favor.5) Then there is the fact that the globe isn’t even warming anymore and the small amount of warming experienced from the 1900’s to 2001 time frame was negligible and well within the envelope of normal.6) During this same period of marginal warming, scientists also noticed that other planets in our solar system were warming. What do these planets have in common ? --- the Sun.7) Phil Jones, former head of the Climatic Research Unit, the Guru and High Priest of Global Warming himself admitted there has been no statistically significant warming. If anyone on the planet would have been aware of sta! tistically significant warming it would have been Phil Jones and he adm! itted there has been none. (Game Over)8) Warmist like Al Gore refuse to engage in any formal debate on the issue. That’s because on the few occasions Warmist have debated openly, they lose, and they lose big . Lord Monckton utterly destroys them time and time again.9) Al Gore and other Warmist have said time and again that they want to make CO2 the object of a global tax. CO2 is the perfect object for a tax for their revenue purposes because you literally cannot live without making CO2. And current science has shown clearly that there is no correlation between the planet’s mean temperature and the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. Demonizing CO2 is all about the tax dollars --- and that’s all its about.See the scam for what it is and don’t believe any of it.-------------...Show more

Elvin Weichbrodt: Apart from my general cynicism with politicians and their paid scientist puppies I know they are onto a fiddle because they always blame air planes. All you! super scientists can look this up if you like. When we do thrust calculations for giant jet engines like the RB211, the ones that power wide bodied jets, we IGNORE the added burnt fuel contribution because it is too small to worry about. In fact of all the gas that comes out the back, pushing you along, over 99% of it is...AIR! The 777 is the most efficient passenger carrying vehicle man has ever made. It gets about 90 miles per gallon per passenger, yet I have not seen one AGW scientist or politician give up his much more polluting gas guzzler. Indeed the greedier of them travel worldwide at your expense to their summit conferences on pollution in the very same planes. Look at what a man does, not what he says.Go to the link below and look for where the burnt fuel vapour is included in the gas that comes out of a jet. It only refers to the weight of air that is going through the engine because the fuel is so minuscule as to not effect the thrust equation.Furthermore they ! use photos of fossil fuelled power stations for their propaganda as wel! l and nearly always show huge chimneys belching white "smoke" - those are the cooling towers and the white stuff is condensed pure water cloud - but both pictures (chimneys and jet engines) will convince an unwary non engineering public which it is all aimed at. Then genuine engineers and scientists are scorned as conspiracy theorists. They always play the man, not the ball - it's characteristic of the deceitful....Show more

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Jimmie Doerfler: Because of the multiple lines of evidence. Global warming is happeninghttp://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/images/wa...And we are causing ithttp://c1.planetsave.com/files/2010/08/Humans_Caus...editIt looks like the denialists are out in full force. I would rather believe scientists than Faux News....Show more

Hal Palowoda: The global warming myth has been hyped by politicians seeking money and supported by scientists that provide credibility and receive funding from the same politicians pushing this! myth.

Cliff Tyre: I don't believe there is any problem with 'global warming'. Why do you? I believe there is a problem with the 'global warming' lobby.

Raelene Cunnick: the warm surface waters drain into the ocean and the currents take it north on the east coast up ,,this warm water flows under the ice shelf and melts it from underneath causing the ice to break off ,,this current is the heart and blood of the ocean circulating in a circle like in us the heart pumps it to the organs and lungs recharges it and cools the body,,the earth is alive so to speak and its wearing a sweat suit in the middle of summer and now its winter and its starting to cool off but its not enough

Erica Bottaro: It's not something you can choose to believe in or not - it's a fact. It's not a philosophical debate.

Inez Relihan: The oceans and Co2 are climate moderators keeping the planets climate from getting to hot or to cold.http://www.weatherquestions.com/Roy-Spencer-on! -glo...http://www.indiana.edu/~geol105/http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossil! s/ice_ages.html#an...http://www.friendsofscience.org/assets/documents/T...http://landshape.org/enm/greenhouse-thermodynamics...http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html#an......Show more

Floy Fague: If it wasn't for global warming, Chicago would still be under a mile of ice. Cro Magnon people learned how to make fire and the smoke from their campsites melted the glaciers.

Raul Tllo: Yes I completely believe global warming is going on. I had to do a research paper on it and It is happening, all the signs add up.

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Terrell Voltz: Yes, primarily because of an increase in solar activity and secondly because of a 20% drop in upper atmospheric aerosols over the last 15 years.