Does "global warming" exist or is it horse hockey?

I believe that global warming is a credible problem

I believe global warming is one of a number of overpopulation-induced problems caused primarily by the fact that there are five times as many of us humans on the planet as it can comfortably support.

I think there's evidence that it exists, but I don't think it's an absolute certainty.

To what extent mankind is having on global warming is moot; debatable at best. The next meteorite the size of a football field or whenever the Yellowstone caldera eventually erupts again, we'll be plummeted back into another ice age. What caused the previous ice age periods to end? Not modern man. We're actually at the end the current ice age, which began slightly less than 3 million years ago, and global warming is expected.

Definately exists - polar bears are struggling/starving because the ice is melting. Just 1 degree change in temperature affects tons of different life forms - their reproduction, viability, choice of habitat. And I think the weather's changed noticeably from when I was a child. We used to get more snow in the winter (winters were colder) and have warmer, brighter summers - am I wrong? I would love to be wrong.

I have never understood why scientists would make this up. But I'm sure Kaleb666 is going to tell me.

I don't know enough about it to have an opinion.
Is true that summers are getting hotter,but maybe this is for a different reason.

I thought it was his survey!

Me too!

I suspect that it depends on how the terms are defined. This certainly isn't my area of expertise, but from what I understand, global weather and climate conditions are in a constant state of flux. 1000 years ago you didn't see a lot of snow in central Europe for example. I certainly don't think that it is a bad idea for us to be concerned about our effect on the environment; trying to control the release of CFCs into the atmosphere for example.

So what IS horse hockey anyway?

"horse hockey" was a game played by the giants that inhabited the Appalachian Mountains. Once a year, in the dead of winter, the giants would trek over to the great lakes and skate on a frozen lake and use small trees to bat horses back and forth on the ice. This explains why horses evolved to be able to run so fast - it was to be able to get away from the giants before they caught them for "horse hockey". Of course, the term is long since obsolescent, following the giant migrations millenia ago.

I don't know what global warming really is, but I am pretty sure it exists.

Like...God??

I think it exists.

I thought "horse hockey" was just the proletarian name for the game of polo!

I think it exists.

Oh! Well, that makes sense!

I do believe God exists, if that is what you mean.

I know...your answer,I know it exists but don't know what is can be applied to God too.I mean you believe in God,but can't comprehend him totally,because you're human.
Sounds like something a believer might say about God.

OIC! Yeah, you are absolutely right!

I believe it exists.

People talk about it, so I guess it does exist.

It is all a bunch of left-wing B.S. created to get government money to fund their pot smoking. (Now hiding under my desk) I don't know about where you live, but this is the coldest summer in Michigan USA that we've had in a long, long time.

Other. Of course global warming exists because if it didn't we'd be stuck in a permanent ice age. Global warming is natural, as are the small variations in temperature that are directly related to solar cycles and match graphs of solar energy variations.

Human induced global warming however is a bunch or horse crap. It's a silly theory based on flawed science and any climatologist will admit it is impossible to prove. The sooner people wake up to this fact and stop allowing their lives to be dictated by green nuts, with God knows what real agenda, the better. The worst environments on this planet are in nations that are economically backward. The worst thing for the environment is to keep people in poverty by taxing fossil fuels out of use because of a baseless theory.

Right on, Brother!

I don't know what Greenpeace wacko told you that but last year the Russians had to blow up ice floes that were frozen in place to allow the polar bears to feed. You see they have used giant ice floes which move to migrate to new feeding grounds. The temperatures at the north pole were unusually cold and the floes were frozen. That's why they were starving.

You should do some research. Never believe what the greens tell you.

Maybe you could ask the 15 people who died of the cold last year in Bangladesh!

Oh yeah, global warming is a real problem...pfft.

Then I guess leprachauns exist too. Gosh!

I think it's incredibly arrogant to think that we humans can destroy something as big as the Earth.
But we humans tend to think more of ourselves don't we?

I do believe that some warming has occurred, but I think it's very possible that it's the cycles. We once had an ice age. There weren't any humans to create global warming then to end it.

That's not to say I don't think we should protect the planet. I'm not about to say let's all go out and kill a bunch of endangered species or start a bunch of wildfires.

Mother Nature has the ability to heal things as long as we don't go overboard.
Greenpeace on the other hand is a bunch of wackos.
And there are scientists who would try to prove "global warming" due to a political agenda.

A metorite destroyed the dinosaurs, and changed the weather patterns on Earth for many years. That was nature.

Back 200 years ago, there was raw sewage out in the middle of the streets because horses were the only transportation. Plus, the only option for many people was to pee or poop in a pot and pour it out in the yard. Don't go thinking that was good for the environment.

And look at what some of the under-developed countries do. Some of them are much dirtier than developed countries, yet the greenies blame us.
Part of it is hatred for the USA and wanting to tear us down.

Too many people have been brainwashed into believing in global warming. It's kind of become it's own nutty religion.

And I'd like to know where that global warming is when I'm shoveling 6 inches of snow off our driveway!!!

You said it brother!!!

The greenpeace wacko was some tv program I can't remember. But, definately, gotta research stuff.

actually crap is excellent fertilizer and is fairly good for the environment (in moderation)

Finally someone with some common sense! Yes, it is amazing how the believers in the religion of global warming attribute any climate changes entirely to humans these days when the climate has been changing by itself for millions of years. Suddenly the atmospheric concentration of CO2 rises from bugger all (260 ppm) to bugger all (320 ppm)and that is supposed to somehow result in mass extinctions? The greenies severely underestimate this planet. I find it strange that although plant biology points to plants having to adapt to an atmosphere that has slowly had almost all CO2 removed by plant and animal life (shells and bones), these so-called greenies have decided that the pre-industrial revolution level of 260ppm is the optimum. All studies on the effects on life of an atmosphere rich in CO2 (up to 500 ppm) show that plant life booms and so does the animal life that relies on it. Plants actually require less water when higher levels of CO2 are present - perhaps an answer to desertification is human liberation of CO2 trapped in fossil fuels. Not that any of the facts mean anything to people blinded by ideology.

I agree with you. The environments that are most protected are those in rich capitalist nations. North Korea uses more energy per US$ of production than the south. While the greenies attack the US for using fossil fuels and having intensive farming, poor countries burn off their forests and eat everything that used to live in them. Idiot greenies should be called brownies. They seem to hate anything to do with life, human, plant or animal. This does suggest that they have another agenda. It's no surprise that most environmentalists are also socialists. What better way to reduce the success of western capitalism than to tax fuel out of use?

I'm not sure. I like to trust scientists but at the same time I distrust radical activists who twist scientific findings to make their political cause theories seem valid.

I dont think I would go as far as calling enviormentalism a religion.

I really don't know .

The Earth *is* getting warmer, yes. Whether that's through human action, or is just part of the natural cycle has not yet been proven one way or the other. Personally, I think it's better to be cautious and cut CO2 emissions rather than rue it later. I don't see how it can hurt anyway - especially as fossil fuels are close to running out, we need new energy sources, quickly.