Jude Kennelly:
Laveta Fathy: dude, you're off the chain for saying something like that!!
Jeff Frizzell: Polluters. But remember, one organisms polution may be another organisms food.
Shad Bushweller: Global warming or cooling is directly caused by activity cycles of the sun which cause sun spots. Until we discover what causes the sun to vary its activity levels and what causes the sunspots we will never know what causes our climate variability. We do know for sure that when sunspot activity is high we have warm climate periods and when the sunspot activity is weak we have ice ages. This has been clearly identified by more than 3,000 years of scientific observation by at least 4 cultural groups. The idea that human activity does this is just another silly fundamentalist religion like those that brought us the inquisitions of the middle ages. I prefer science to religion, but liberal minds are always trying to take control of the worlds governments throug! h new fundamentalist religions like AGW.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galileihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_reviewhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_methodhttp://www.examiner.com/x-4648-Atlanta-Weather-Exa...http://docinthemachine.com/2007/02/15/flawedpeers/http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.htmlhttp://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message30...http://m.climaterealists.com/index.php?id=2516http://minnesotansforglobalwarming.com/m4gw/2009/0...http://swampie.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/what-the-v......Show more
Ardath Templer: i don't think so...
Barton Morfee: Yes!!! ,and whoever farts and therefore adds to the problem should be ashamed of themselves for not keeping a record of how much and sending it to Al Gore so he can add this info to his charts.
Verena Koop: Watch a movie called the great warming swindle it explains everything in that it's actually a documentary with real scientist the world has heated up and cooled down the I've! sheets melting has always happened even before our time the w! orld can self heal it's self . The people who gathered information about global warming was not real scientist the basically was paid to gather info al gore is just profiting from this scam . People are just being programmed to believe that there is global warming from people yes we do create a lot of pollution , but believe it not volcanoes , forest fires and a lot of other natural things give of gases....Show more
Janean Guz:
Brian Freedland: If it wasn't for global warming -- Chicago would still be under a mile of ice.Fortunately, Cro Magnon people learned how to make fire and the smoke from their campsites melted the glaciers.
Wilbert Shellgren: Global warming is the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans since the late 19th century and its projected continuation. Since the early 20th century, Earth's average surface temperature has increased by about 0.8 °C (1.4 °F), with about two thirds of the increase occurring since 1980. W! arming of the climate system is unequivocal, and scientists are more than 90% certain that most of it is caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases produced by human activities such as deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels. These findings are recognized by the national science academies of all major industrialized nations.Climate model projections are summarized in the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). They indicate that during the 21st century the global surface temperature is likely to rise a further 1.1 to 2.9 °C (2 to 5.2 °F) for their lowest emissions scenario and 2.4 to 6.4 °C (4.3 to 11.5 °F) for their highest. The ranges of these estimates arise from the use of models with differing sensitivity to greenhouse gas concentrations.An increase in global temperature will cause sea levels to rise and will change the amount and pattern of precipitation, and a probable expansion of subtropica! l deserts. Warming is expected to be strongest in the Arctic and would ! be associated with continuing retreat of glaciers, permafrost and sea ice. Other likely effects of the warming include more frequent occurrence of extreme-weather events including heat waves, droughts and heavy rainfall, species extinctions due to shifting temperature regimes, and changes in crop yields. Warming and related changes will vary from region to region around the globe, with projections being more robust in some areas than others. If global mean temperature increases to 4 °C (7.2 °F) above preindustrial levels, the limits for human adaptation are likely to be exceeded in many parts of the world, while the limits for adaptation for natural systems would largely be exceeded throughout the world. Hence, the ecosystem services upon which human livelihoods depend would not be preserved.Most countries are parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), whose ultimate objective is to prevent dangerous anthropogenic (i.e., human-induced) ! climate change. Parties to the UNFCCC have adopted a range of policies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions:10:9 and to assist in adaptation to global warming.:13:10 Parties to the UNFCCC have agreed that deep cuts in emissions are required, and that future global warming should be limited to below 2.0 °C (3.6 °F) relative to the pre-industrial level. A 2011 report of analyses by the United Nations Environment Programme and International Energy Agency suggest that efforts as of the early 21st century to reduce emissions may be inadequately stringent to meet the UNFCCC's 2 °C target....Show more
Christopher Calcano: Bottom line is that Milankovitch Cycles were never meant to predict warming or cooling trends on the scale that everyone in these forums seem to think they were. Prior to Global Warming hysteria, everyone in the scientific community disregarded Milankovitch for this very reason. People just didn't care!Once Warmers thought they could build a case ! that the Milankovitch was a useful tool to sell Global Warming, then Mi! lankovitch became a weapon in the AGW arsenal.Look closely at the duration of the cycles and their variability and you will see that their precision is + or - several thousand years.Transgressive marine cycles in the geological record tend to be serrate in nature, but have time spands that last at a minimum 5 million years and some last 30 million years. Trying to micromanage thermal cyclicity on the scale of 12,000 years is a horrible horrible joke!The "peaks" alone in the historical Milankovitch exceed 20,500 years in duration and can be as long as 50,0000 years in duration. Additionally, there is an obvious rythm at 400,000 years (check the theory section, that results in a protracted warming cycle despite a n otherwise "cooling" cycle. Check out the precession and obliquity at today...400M years and 800M years and see what happens to warming.What a bunch of BS...look at the actual data...measure it with a darn ruler or dividers!!!...Show more
George Dingeldein: un! awareness towards global warming goverments of most of the countries r dull they r not strict towards industries
Sammy Kar: So let me get this straight. Everyone has been telling me that chemicals never leave the atmosphere, that's why we can't wait for adaptation of technology. Even though almost all experts predict atleast a hundred years before global warming destroys us, we need to act now, and yet there's always been methane on the planet. Does methane escape the atmosphere? If so then we can wait for technology to catch up, help out the economy by not raising environmental standards, and be fine over the decades....Show more
Oscar Wieland: sorry bob when combined with solar cycles they are the climate driversnot the cooked data you worship from your alarmist priests
Michel Mccaulley: if you're a cow,yes...
Babette Deloe: It's the event that happens naturally after global cooling.
Lino Cawthorne: The Milankovitch cycles trigger tr! ansitions between ice ages and interglacial periods. They are amplifie! d by various feedbacks like increasing atmospheric CO2. So yes, they partially explain some periods of warming.However, according to these cycles, the planet should be very gradually cooling right now. Which it was for about 8,000 years until 100 years ago. So they don't explain the current global warming. Quite the opposite....Show more
Woodrow Neyman: Actually, yes farting produces carbon monoxide, which is a greenhouse gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect...
Ollie Hamiel:
Barton Sease: people are the main cause. throwing out trash in the wilderness instead of garbage cans. Cars and all engines. boats also.
Elmo Tervo: mostly people trucks cars factory's huge trucks roads everything does actually
Walter Scordino: What is global warming, and how is it affecting the Earth and its inhabitants? Global Warming is sometimes referred to as the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is the absorption of energy radiated from the Eart! h's surface by carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere, causing the atmosphere to become warmer. The greenhouse effect is what is causing the temperature on the Earth to rise, and creating many problems that will begin to occur in the coming decades. For the last 10,000 years, the Earth's climate has been extraordinarily beneficial to mankind. "Humans have prospered tremendously well under a benign atmosphere," (Bates 28).Today, however, major changes are taking place. People are conducting an inadvertent global experiment by changing the face of the entire planet. We are destroying the ozone layer, which allows life to exist on the Earth's surface. All of these activities are unfavorably altering the composition of the biosphere and the Earth's heat balance. If we do not slow down our use of fossil fuels and stop destroying, the forests, the world could become hotter than it has been in the past million years. Average global temperatures have risen 1 degree Fahren! heit over the last century. If carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gase! s continue to spill into the atmosphere, global temperatures could rise five to 10 degrees by the middle of the next century.
Krystal Cordovano: believe it or not, it does. so i would cut down on those busch's baked beans. i know there good, but your killing us all. literally
Shane Getler: Global warning includes : global warming, economic and financial crisis, natural disaster, etc.
Dalila Yoon: maybe.
Lita Thammorongsa: Doesn't even BEGIN to explain the extremely rapid rise in CO2 and global temperatures of the last few decades.
Romana Stiman: we are the main reason because we provide bathrooms for clean and green environment but outside there are no bathrooms for animals so, we prevent 20% of air pollution but 80%pollution is encouraged by us.no shelter for animals
Wilfredo Muldoon: Global warming is the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans since the late 19th century and its projected continuation. Since the ear! ly 20th century, Earth's average surface temperature has increased by about 0.8 °C (1.4 °F), with about two thirds of the increase occurring since 1980.Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and scientists are more than 90% certain that most of it is caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases produced by human activities such as deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels. These findings are recognized by the national science academies of all major industrialized nations.
Elden Bardach: nope
Palmira Lochridge: global warmingLooks like you have you eyes open. Can’t say that about to many people in society today. Most of us walk around with blinders until a catastrophe hits, then we wake up pretty quick. Unfortunately we go blind again a few months later…Let me start off by saying we (my family and I) live 100% off of the grid and are completely self-sufficient with a 0% Carbon footprint. I believe this is the first step anyone can make! “help the environmentâ€. Once you convert your own life style to a ! greener more eco friendly route, you can start helping others.if your interested feel free to contact me personally at www agua-luna comWe definitely didn't start global warming, but we definitely do contribute to it now.Natural gas (or Methane along with other thanes) for example, is completely a natural contributer to global warming and is derived pretty much the same way as oil. ie. Matter (animal, plant etc) decomposes over time resulting in a anaerobic (hope I spelled that right) decay of non-fossil organic material / gas (natural gas or methane).One problem with global warming is that the concept is so vague in the minds of the people. The critical interpretation is basically how it’s explained in school and the news. However most of the public see global warming connected with the ozone and pollutants which cause harmful greenhouse gasses, etc. therefore investigating and fighting for things like alternative energy (ie. Solar, wind, hydrogen, ethanol, biodiesel, et! c)Greenhouse gases are real and do contribute to global warming. Think of the different gas layers like ozone (o3) that circumference the globe as the clear plastic on a greenhouse. Longer rays of light from the Sun go in and reflect off different thermal masses bouncing back and creating shorter lengths of energy that cannot exist the plastic barrier. These beams then just continue to bounce around inside the green house until they’re finally absorbed completely (some do escape but very few), thereby warming the greenhouse greatly even in cold temperatures.Basically there are 2 ways that this reaction (or lack of) affects the planet. Global warming and global cooling.1. as we add to the gases in the stratosphere, where the ozone layer is (Carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, etc), we add to the plastic of the greenhouse, trapping more short wave length energy and heating the earth more.2. as we deplete the ozone (with chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs), we allow more long wave len! gth energy, which bounces back out to space without heating any thermal! masses on earth, thereby cooling the planet.It’s pretty easy to see the results..Melting ice sheets & glaciersFloods & droughtsGreat hurricanes & cyclonesSeasonal extremesSeasonal phenomena’sSpecies extinctionNew & resurgent diseasesThere are many ways to stop both global warming and cooling from accruing or at least slow them down until we can discover a way to reverse it, but Stop burning fossil fuels is the biggest.I currently own 2 converted h2 vehicles which run on 100% hydrogen and 1 EV (electric vehicle), not to mention our home is completely off the grid, using alternative energy (solar, wind, etc)If you interested I offer several DIY alternative guides to walk you step by step threw Greener living, how to run your car on alternative fuels and being self-sufficient, at agua-luna com orwww agua-luna comHope this helped, feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions if you’d like assistance in making your first self sufficient steps, I’m willin! g to walk you step by step threw the process. I’ve written several how-to DIY guides available at www agua-luna com on the subject. I also offer online and on-site workshops, seminars and internships to help others help the environment.Dan MartinAlterative Energy / Sustainable Consultant, Living 100% on Alternative & Author of How One Simple Yet Incredibly Powerful Resource Is Transforming The Lives of Regular People From All Over The World... Instantly Elevating Their Income & Lowering Their Debt, While Saving The Environment by Using FREE ENERGY... All With Just One Click of A Mouse...For more info Visit: www AGUA-LUNA com Stop Global Warming, Receive a FREE Solar Panels Now!!!...Show more
Tyrone Disanti: Hell yeah! Excuse my horrible language. Hello I am Marty Jean Baker (elaney) you might've seen me on American Idol with Miley Cyruss. If not Life of Llama Organizations wants you to help promote our new Campaign "LLAMAS GO GREEN YOU SHOULD TOO" to become a part! of this please email me at dawlfacex3@yahoo.com. it's alll free and no! personal info reqiured. We are all in this for the llamas and that's what we do here at life of llama organzations! So please come and be apart of our new campaign and lllo. "LLAMAS GO GREEN YOU SHOULD TOO" Is strictly about global warming and llamas. The first 82 members to sign up will recieve a free trip to Peru and walk with the llamas to promote "LLAMAS GO GREEN YOU SHOULD TOO" with Miley Cyruss. -Marty Jean B. Buffy Ling...Show more
Elmo Tervo: Have a look at this (hi-def) video,called "HOME"....It's all about our world, pollution and global warming..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU
Ervin Overbee: These cycles tend to be very long term. The current situation is different. Atmospheric gases can and do retard heat transmission....CO2, methane and water vapor. CO2 occurs naturally and it's natural formation and distribution is measurable. Most methane is currently locked up in frozen deep sea methane ice and in tundra. Warming will release it ! and add to the problem. Man made CO2 is a different story than 'natural CO2 and it can be measured by the industrial odds and ends that accompany it in deeply bored ice cores. Ice cores show that before the industrial revolution of the early 1800 there was very little industrial soot and going back even further there was none. So we can tell what part of the CO2 spectrum is man made and what part is 'natural'. Today a significant amount of CO2 is man made and the data shows that. Currently our CO2 load stands at 386ppm....before the industrial revolution it stood at 284ppm, an increase of only 4ppm in 10,000 years as shown in ice core samples. At 400ppm the greenhouse effect is strong enough to stop a significant amount of IR radiation from escaping into the night sky so there's no scientific reason for heating NOT to occur. The amount of man created CO2 increases about 12 to 15ppm per decade....this brings us perilously close to the the 400ppm mark. One can argue w! ith some of the data collected, and even argue with the effects so far,! but nobody can argue with scientifically proven heat physics. This is serious business. I think some of the deniers may be trying to prevent a world wide panic by playing down this aspect of the situation. Maybe that's a good thing. A better thing would be to stop adding CO2 to our paper thin atmosphere....Show more
Giovanni Malool: people's ignorance and unconcernedness ):
Cedric Grimstead: 1
Dannie Briseno: Yes!
Elfreda Grossen: Global warming/cooling is cyclic and has been going on for 4 billion years.
Dionna Doyel: It does contain methane, but not much.
Raul Tllo: Nope.The timing is all wrong. The cycles are pretty regular. We had a warming Milankovic cycle about 12,000 years ago, it got us out of the last Ice Age. Since then we (until recently) were in the slow cooling that follows a warming cycle. The next warming cycle isn't due for 80,000-90,000 years.Also, the Milankovic cycles aren't some magic. They cause an increase ! in solar radiation that would be EASILY detectable. But measured solar radiation shows the slow decline related to the slow cooling mentioned above.This graph shows the slow decline in temperature, after the last Ice Age, and before global warming.http://www.globalwarmingart.com/images/b/bb/Holoce......Show more
Elva Batie: There is no man-made Global Warming.Watch and Learn.The Great Global Warming Swindlehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov0WwtPcALE
Kellie Waycott: Not as much as the hot air coming from Spotted Al's mouth. If you pay Carbon Offset you can pollute as much as you want and it won't hurt the environment.If only we could eliminate all of the Co2 on earth. Oh wait a minute that would make all the trees die. You know what causes the earth to get warm? The SUN.
Dedra Furguson: They explain long term trends. Shorter term trends are caused by a myriad of other factors. Bacheous is incorrect if he assumes that short term trends such as that rela! ted to warming since the Little Ice Age for the last 300 years, is rela! ted to to Milankovitch cycles. Perhaps the general cooling for the last 6000 years is but that isn't relavant to the more recent cooling and warming IMO.
Marco Stolarz: Farting has methane, yes, but it's already factored into the atmospheric load to expect a certain amount. Think of a buffered system such as your body. You can expect a certain amount of a chemical and it won't hurt you because your body can absorb it and use it. Over a certain amount and it can cause problems.Same thing with methane from farts. Sure, it releases methane, and methane does cause warming. But the atmosphere needs SOME methane to keep us all warm and cozy down here. It won't produce enough emissions to actually push us over the threshold, though. You need massive industrial-strength emissions of methane to do long-term damage....Show more
Maria Devenney: A fart is made up of;Nitrogen: 20-90%Hydrogen: 0-50% (flammable)Carbon dioxide: 10-30%Oxygen: 0-10%Methane: 0-10% (flammable)Out ! of these gases Methane and carbon dioxide are what we call greenhouse gases, among others. We call these greenhouse gases because they refer to the analogy of 'the greenhouse effect'. The analogy used is to depict that the greenhouse traps or seals in the heat. The volume of gases is linked with a rise in temperature as they trap heat produced from the sun and the infra-red radiation produced by all things. Although farting is an involuntary biological bi product of digestion we can affect the amount of CO2 being produced through the burning of fossil fuels....Show more
Kaley Lappas: I think it is excellent that any one is ultimately discussing the crisis of overpopulation. That this guy is concerned rather would not topic to me a technique or yet another. Halting overpopulation and getting our numbers more under manipulate would permit us to curb pollution, aid the species which can be going extinct to recuperate, gradual the reducing down of ancient growth forests, ! decrease ailment, diminish the severity of fresh water and meals shorta! ges, and so forth etc. Our population has grown too fast in too in need of a time. At it can be present expense, it will proceed ballooning out of manipulate. Keep in mind the truth that we simplest reached 1billion individuals again within the early 1800's. We're now over 6.5 times that 200 years later. That's roughly eight new generations considering the fact that the 1billion mark, going by way of the common. There's no method the sector would have all set for over 5.5 billion extra men and women over just eight generations.
Valentine Michaud: Cow farts especially
Soraya Coodey: Nope. As others have said, we were in a natural long term cooling period due to Milankovitch Cycles. Greenhouse gases have overwhelmed that.To Jim Z -- No, there is no assumption that the short term warming is related to the Milankovitch cycles. There is no possible way. We are agreed. The warming is too rapid to be related to anything natural. And that's the point. The warming! is not related to the Milankovitch cycles and is therefore not related "coming out of the little ice age". There is no known natural reason for the warming: it is not Milankovitch, not ice ages, not changes in the sun....Show more
Antonia Mogg: Only if your lighting them!
