Do you guys think Iceage is very near or do you think gloobal warming is geting more?
98989
I believe global warming is more natural than the enviro-Nazis are giving credit for. I believe whole-heartedly that the Earth has gone through this cycle MANY times. While our polution is having an effect, and we should not have unlimited polluting, it does not have the effect of a volcanic eruption and other natural events.\n\nI refuse to be one of those uber-whackos that thinks that we should try anything to force the human race to go back to loin cloths and spears, riding on horseback. But I also do not believe we should dump and spew everything back into the environment without thinking of the effects. There has to be a happy medium.\n\nI do not really know, as even the scientists do not really know, if we are still moving away from the last ice cycle, or we are past the opposite point and we are moving back towards another ice age. In any case, we need to try and understand it more, and the effects of everything more.\nGood question though.
549506
Global warming and it is closer to the equator.
946410
actually that's not correct.. because it is at a stasis (not all of it is under water) the melting of an iceberg would have 0 effect on ocean level, positive or negative.. it's the glaciers melting that are over land like at Antarctica that would cause the change, and they would drown most of the coastal US.\n\n\nhah, i wasn't trying to make a political statement about it... in all honesty my personal belief is that the natural cycle is much stronger than anything we can do and would find a way to balance itself out... but sure, if you wanted to harvest some water send someone to chip away at a glacier.. it's all the fresh water anyone would need for hundreds of years lol.. of course there would be pro's and con's for that.. but that's for the philosophers to debate.  I don't mind my hill top becoming beachfront.. but a few billion people might disagree with me.
245034
There will definitely be another if not many more.  I'm pretty that it will come soon, maybe within a thousand years.\n\nWow, I'm suprised I'm the only one to believe this.  People, just because it is getting warmer doesn't mean it always will.  Global climate is constantly changing.
857599
I guess I'm one of those people who notices changes in my own state - winters are NOT the same - but I am aware that our planet has undergone changes in the past. Are humans having an effect? I'm sure of it. But how much? And how much of the changes we're seeing are completely natural in the grand scheme of things? I'm not prepared to answer.
37393
No one really knows if the apparent warming we are observing is natural, a secular increase due to various natural processes. It could be due to changes in the solar constant, it could be because of complicated nonlinear effects we do not understand, it could be that we are in an interglacial period in the Milankovitch cycle, etc. \n\nHowever, it also could be anthropogenic in origin. Evidence is mounting that it might be, but it is not yet certain.
172021
global warming is definitely the answer.  once the polar ice caps melt, the temps will skyrocket.  i expect that this summer will be cool and wet also.  this will continue, more than likely, until the ice caps are gone, then no more moisture, just hot dry temps with no end in sight.
474323
I  am very concerned about global Warming, The east coast could be underwater and the northpole could be gone in as little as 50 years. Today's choices could have a dramatic effect on the future. yet NOTHING is being done :(.
1085632
It is too early to tell but with Global Warming the chances are getting better and better!\nBut it would be pretty weak.
1088549
I have been wondering if I would see a global warming question up here.  I thought for sure there would just be a bunch of answer blaming Bush for it.  I am glad to see it hasn't gone that way yet.\n\nThis whole global warming thing is a complete sham.  When I was in school they used to run stories on global cooling, we were all going to be under ice, because all the air pollution was going to block out the sun.  Now its global warming, just more nonsense.\n\nUnfortunately they don't teach you kids much in school nowadays.  The Earth goes through climate changes ALL THE TIME.  I know you have all heard of ice ages, probably only because of the cute little kids movie, but we have had them its really true.  It has also been really, really hot here.  We have been completely covered by ice, we have been without even ice at the poles.  The poles themselves actually flip from time to time.  One day the north pole will be the south pole, it has happened before and it will happen again.\n\nWe can't even come close to attempting to try to affect the climate.  And nothing we can do, can stop, or alter where the climate is going.  If it does in fact get warmer, we didn't do it, and we can't stop it.\n\nYou really need to understand what is behind things like this though, because it is truely unAmerican.   A large part of the world and more unfortunately a small but significant percentage of our own people, simply believe we do not deserve to be the world most powerful country.  And everything they can do, to level the playing field, they will do.  This is simply one of those devices.  There are plenty and there will be more.
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Actually both are true.  However, global warming and an impending ice age will not cancel each other out, as far as, average temperatures are concerned.\n\nGlobal warming, whether caused by mankind or nature, will usher in another global ice age.\n\nAlthough this sounds contradictory, there is an explanation that I will attempt to explain:\n\nAtlantic ocean currents circulate from the warmer southern Atlantic ocean northward to the colder waters.\n\nAs the warm waters flow north, they cool down, and thus, begin to sink deeper into the colder northern Atlantic waters.\n\nThis colder water then continues to flow southward, and thus, begins to warm up again the closer it gets to the equator, effectively creating a self-sustaining flow.\n\nAs this colder water warms up, it begins to rise toward the surface where it continues to get warmer.\n\nThen, these warmer waters are caught into the northern flow\nwhere they will eventually begin to cool down again, sink, and continue the flow back southward.\n\nIt is this flowing current from warm to cold to warm again that regulates our weather systems.\n\nNow then, as the Earth warms up because of global warming (manmade or otherwise,) the Atlantic current is in danger of being disrupted and stopped.\n\nWhy?  Because as the northern Atlantic waters warm up, there will be a point at which the northern waters are too warm for the water to cool and thus sink.\n\nOnce the northern waters stop sinking, the whole process will come to a screeching halt.  Therefore, no more Atlantic current.\n\nNo more Atlantic current will then halt the process of "warmer" waters from flowing northward.\n\nOnce this massive amount of warm, energy filled waters stops flowing north, the Northern Hemisphere will then start cooling down enough to mark the beginning of a new ice age. \n\nHope this helps...\n\n-AwareOne\nAwareones@yahoo.com
457897
No.  If the planet were on a cooling trend, and stayed that way for a while, it might be heading towards a periodic Ice Age, as it has done in the past.  We would consume a lot more of outr limited energy resources just to keep ourselves warm.  Also, don't worry so much about Global Warming.  As I said before, nature goes through these cycles of warming and cooling.  Yes. humans have an impact, but it is small.
784011
I don't believe in global warming . .I believe in my opinion is the signs that Christ is coming back soon! If you don't agree that is cool by me.
617090
Global warming is definately a huge issue.  I don't think any countries are enacting on this issue currently
688110
If you can call a 1 degree change in 100 years significant, go ahead. The truth is nobody knows why or what is causing warming. The earth has heated up and cooled down many times. No matter, its just good policy to take care of the environment we live in without being extremists or gloom and doom profits.
833807
I agree, that global warming MUST be a lie, I mean it's fu.ckin freezing here!\n\nI need to start burning my rubbish. Fu.ck the councils and their spy-chips in the bins, If they want to charge me extra on enviromental grounds for taking away my rubbish, I'm gonna start burning it!\n\nand  I am going to part ex my efficient small diesel car for a fu.ck-off huge SUV and have a monster truck engine installed, and then drive my car, with the windows down and the heating up full for miles and miles for no apparent reason.
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Though it may sound crazy, global warming can cause an Ice Age. You see, there's an underwater wall keeping the super-cold water of the Arctic Ocean out of the a lot warmer water of the Alantic Ocean. Global warming makes this wall dissolve, letting the cold water meet the warmer water, overall lowering the temperature of the oceans. Meanwhile, the glaciers start to melt and slide. Now that the oceans aren't as warm, the glacierscan continue to move south and cover a chunk of the Northern Hemisphere in ice. In short, an ice age.\n\nHowever, ice cores are showing that global warming isn't as bad as we thought. the ice cores show that the average global temperature 100,000 years ago would go up and down by 10 degrees in a matter of decades. In comparison, our global warming is warming at a rate of 1 degree per century. Is global warming going to cause the next Ice Age? Or are threats empty? YOu decide.