what are your views on global warming?
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the global warming theory is driven by politics, not science
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>>>>>Do you know anything bout global warming?\n\nYes, quite alot.\n\n>>>>do you not agree about global warming?\n\nThat sentence makes no sense. Resubmit in English.
482950
I'm a conservative, and I'm also pro-environment and pro-animal rights.  But I do think that the entire "global warming crisis" has been blown out of proportion by special interests.  The scientists who speak the truth are silenced.
1054449
Global Warming is the increase in temperatures in our climate within our atmosphere. It is caused by liberal politicians and environmental wackos from the US and other western countries yakking, crying and complaining about how our modern way of life ( i.e. anything from industrial, technological and day to day conveniences ) is polluting and destroying the planet. The toxic gasses produced by all their whining and complaining is filling up our atmosphere with warm unfilthy air. The result is a "greenhouse" effect. All that hot, vile and unhealthy  gasses coming out of their mouth is a danger to us all. As a sidebar, I have to note that the environmental wackos and the liberal politicians have different agendas as to why they are crying and complaining, but that is another topic all together. \n\nSo in short, Global Warming is caused by hot air coming out environmentalist and left-wing politicians mouths when whining and complaining about anything. Solution: shut them up. \n\nWhat effect does it have in a million years: it will stump human and humanities growth
940204
Go ahead.  Global warming is a MYTH!\n\nWe can treat them like the useless United League of Nations sanctions and ignore them, just like most of the Middle East! Why are you interested in penalizing the countries that have economies that grow instead of trying to become members of the free world economy?
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Your notions are very well-reasoned. You are correct, the down side of accepting that we are responsible for global warming is much smaller than the downside of denial.\n\nThe ONLY reason that the conservatives deny global warming is that they are afraid it will hurt big business and big industry. They are less interested in the truth than they are about protecting their personal  financial status.
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It is clear that we are in a period of Global Warming.  The average temperatures are rising.  That is a fact.\n\nIf you mean, are we suffering from a man-made global warming, that is a tougher question.  A lot of experts have debated this and disagree.  Here in Florida, we have had two really bad hurricane seasons in a row, and a lot of people are scared that this is because of "Global Warming" but the experts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric agency are reporting record warm temperatures and at the same time are downplaying the man-made causes by saying there is no "proof"\n\nAn interesting thing that may happen is that Europe may go through a mini ice age because of this warming.  There is an oceanic conveyor belt that helps distribute heat throughout the world.  This belt ends up in the Artic near Europe.  When the polar ice caps melt, there is an influx of fresh water that changes the salinity in the ocean up there.  This breaks that belt and so the warmth stays in the other portions of the globe.  There was a great special on this a couple of months ago on the History channel.\n\nI don't know if we are causing the Global Warming, but I do know that we are trashing our environment and we should be a lot better consumers so that our children and grand children will have a vibrant and healthy world to live in!
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People babble a lot on this page! If you don't know the answer properly, please don't answer!!!\n\nGo to the link below, it will tell you all about Global Warming and comes from a legitimate source.
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How about the Immigration issue or global warming?\nBoth are highly controversial issues.
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Global warming and cooling, in nature, has cycles beyond our control. AS a species, we have vastly accelerated the warming by CO2 emissions from burning of fossil fuel. The CO2 is/has formed higly reflective shield around the globe that holds heat IN, yet allows sunlight to go through it. The heat builds up, but cannot escape fast enough to prevent warming of the planet. We have reached a critcal stage in this cycle. IF we do not greatly reduce CO2 emissions within the next 10 years, it will be too late for us to stop the cycle that has started. Ice caps will melt and the surface of the Earth will change drastically. Storms will intensify dramatically, having more and more heat to power them. WE are within just a few years of a catastrophe, and yet, no one seems willing to act upon it, in fact, no one seems to even acknowledge the pending disaster. Life as we know it will be very different than it is today. WE are, time wise, just around the corner from a life threatening climate which will be conducive to an instant ICE AGE. If you have any doubt, see the movie, "Day After Tomorrow." The premise of the movie is NOT sci fi...it is very real.
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I think Al Gore jumps on the warming evidence and assumes the cause.  They just discovered that Antarctica was once tropic.  This planet has gone through ice ages and warming trends over and over.  So far I have seen no proof whatsoever that the current warming trend is anything more sinister than what has happened so many times.  I have looked to find it, expecting to find it, and couldn't find a link.  If someone has one (not a person saying 'it is caused by industrialization' but actual proof of that) I would love to see it.\n\nHaving said that, I think Gore legitimately believes global warming is something that can and should be stopped.  To that extent I believe he is genuine.\n\nWould he make a good President?  - No.
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That's a pretty silly question.\n\nI don't know any Libertarian that claims to be stupid.\n\nIn fact, I'm a Libertarian. And even though I am open to the possibility that current climate changes could be part of a larger natural climactic cycle, I still feel that global warming is most likely due to the effects that humans and pollution have on the environment.\n\nAs a Libertarian, there aren't very many things at all that I feel should trump personal freedom and personal choice, but if I had to pick one thing to trump those, it would definitely be protecting the environment from permanent, irreversible damage.
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Yes, it does worry me a lot.\nI try to do my share in order to give a better future not only to other people but to animals as well.\nAnd I think it is very insensitive and selfish to say that one is not worried, because we have seen and read the effects of global warming in our daily lives (floods, heat waves, cold waves, etc).\nWhat happened in New Orleans last year, was a sign of the climate change and people's actions towards the environment.\nIt won't be only our great-grandchildren to feel the consequences, we are feeling them right now. Open your eyes, the changes are out there!\nAnd together we can do something to save the planet, but as long as we have people that won't give up their cars, that will take baths instead of showers, that will light up all the lamps in their houses when they only need one, countries that don't honour the Kyoto Protocol etc. This planet, as well as humans, are condemned.
100431
global warming  im not kidding
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It wasn't as bad as I expected it to be.  To a certain extent, he's right.  The media does tend to give more air time to violence and destruction.  It is also true that many environmentalists are blind idealists that can't face reality.\n\nOn the other hand, people who claim that global warming doesn't exist are usually trying to say that pollution doesn't matter.  That simply isn't true.  Pollution is a serious problem in the world today.  Proof of that can be seen in the massive dead zones that show up in the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean Sea every year.\n\nRegardless of the state of global warming, pollution should be kept to an absolute minimum.  Remember, our children will have to live on this planet.  We have no right to destroy it for them.
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Global warming is caused by greenhouse gas emmisions, like CO2 and CH4, cheifly added by humans.\n\nCO2 is 30% higher than it has been for 650,000 years. Methane is 130% greater. These are two of the main pollutants humans put into the atmosphere in excess, and they are two of the primary greenhouse gases.\n\nLook at the 'hockeystick', which shows a dramatic warming since 1950 after a fairly stable climate for 1000 years. In fact, the 10 hottest years in recorded history have all happened since 1990, with 2005 being the hottest, and 2006 is shaping up to maybe break that record.\n(see links below)\n\nHow's that for proof of man's fault in this? There is ample proof, any real scientist will tell you that.\n\nThere has NEVER been an article doubting man's influence on global warming published in a peer-reviewed journal. A recent study of almost 1000 proved that.\n\nYes, the earth naturally heats and cools, but the rate and amount we are warming now is unprecedented in the recent geologic past. We are doing this, and we must stop it. This is not some political statement or rhetoric. This is science trying to educate a crass, ignorant public of the damage they are doing. The magnitude of temperature increase ALREADY is about 10x that of the 'little ice age' of the middle ages, and rate and amount are only going up. \n\nJust to be clear, glacial and interglacial cycles are mainly controlled by astronomical fluctuations, but we have a detailed record of the last 7 cycles, and what the climate and CO2 is doing now is way different and extreme. The rate of increase is much higher than in the past AND the value itself is much higher.\n\nHI CO2: \nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4467420.stm\nHOCKEY STICK: \nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5109188.stm\nGeneral climate stuff: \nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3897061.stm
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Global Warming.....glaciers melting and too much water for the land.