Do you see any evidence of global warming in your backyard?
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The spiders in my back yard have reached the size of small cats.  I'm not sure if it's global warming or the steroids my wife dumped out last year.
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Read Michael Crichton's State of Fear. From my various reading I have learned that the earth was warmer in 1300 A.D. long before cars and it was one of the most prosperous times in history. This was before the Black Plague, of course. More land was arable and human and animal populations were flourishing. It is really impossible to tell as the Earth is in the middle of a natural warming period right now. The tree huggers will never tell you about the glaciers in Iceland that are getting bigger and the parts of Antarctica where the ice sheet is getting thicker. I am a liberal, I am for nurturing the environment. I believe common sense dictates that vehicle emissions are bad for the earth in making our air more noxious, but to answer your specific question, nobody knows because there are too many factors.
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No and yes. \n\nWith regards to un-educated and mis-informed rubbish that goverments tell us that global warming is an artifact of human activity on this planet no I do not. Global warming is a topic which for the last thirty years or so has been 'fashionable' to study. If you look it at this way, the Earth is approx 4 to 6 billions years old and we are only studying the past few centuries. To me this is not even a dot on the Earths timescale so how can we possibly deduce mans influence on the climate. The climate of the earth is changing constantly. What we recognise as the four seasons; sping, summer, autumn (fall) and winter have only been in existance for the past few million years!\n\nAlthough some scientists have looked at the recent erosion of the ozone, they fail to see the bigger picture and take into account the varying orbit the planet has around the sun, its tilt and wobble (see link below for info on the Milankovitch Theory). They also fail to recognise in they're studies the gravitational pull of the earths core and the movement of the fluids contained within. Additionally the 'hotspots' or 'solar flares' on the sun are not taken into account when global warming is discussed, of which also effects our climate.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
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No. I would call that "continental warming".
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I have no doubt about the fact that the planet is warming up. But it has warmed up and cooled down throughout the history of the planet. It even did this before humans were around. Who was to blame for it then? Nature, same as today. More greenhouse gases are released by natural means (without human involvement) each year than what humans have contributed over the last 10 years.
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Global warming is definately a huge issue.  I don't think any countries are enacting on this issue currently
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Well, the weather changes very quickly, however global warming has been happening for a while. It is in the past while predicting the weather is in the future. There is data that shows a warming trend on Earth. So, you can trust it, at least as fact that is IS happening. Most people agree on that. However nobody is sure whether or not this heating is natural or caused by humans.
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I don't see any correlation of electro-magnetic radiation and global warming at all.  Honestly, I am not even sure that we as human beings have caused what we call 'global warming'.  Every day scientists discover more and more natural patterns on this planet, some of them hundreds of years to work full swing.  This entire 'global warming' may be a 1000 year 'pattern' that we have just yet to discover because we have insufficient data (aka, haven't been measuring it long enough).\n\nBut EMF or EMR having an effect on it?  No, I don't think so.\n\nJust my .02 worth.
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Global warming refers to the increases in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans that has been observed in recent decades.
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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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Global warming is the observed increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans in recent decades
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First you hqve to believe thqt global warming is in fact happening. Second, if it is (it's still a theory, not a fact), what are teh causes. the earth spins like a top. Tops wobble. The last "wobble" in the earth caused the ice age. The next could be an incerase in ambient atmospheric temperature returning the earth to a more tropical cliamte such as the one the dinosaurs thrived in.\n\nWith that in mind, recycling doesn't do anything one way or the other for global warming. It does, however, keep us from filling the earth with needless waste and enables our natural resources to last longer. Rmember, plastics are a petroleum product (oil, gasoline, etc).
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Mission Impossible:  HONESTY AND TRUE REPRESENTATION PLEASE.  As far as issues goes, lets see if the pres. can have the balls to say YES there really is GLOBAL WARMING!!  Not necessarily do anything about it but at least acknowledge it does exist would be nice.
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Yes. My neighbor has collected weather data for the last 15 years.  It's mostly temperature, rain amount, and a general description of the weather.  I did a statistical analysis of the temperature data and discovered that the trend indicated an increasing temperature.  I used a least squares analysis and plotted the graph.  I did this for a monthly average, and a yearly average.  The trend is upward for both, and some record highs were recorded in several months. I don't want to get into the details for anyone who is a statistical genius at this point.  The outcome seems to depend on which political party you belong to in the US. \nThere are also some wild fluctuations in temperature, and wind events.  We have had some severe storms that have damaged large areas of pristine forests, and we have had some major flooding. I live in Pennsylvania and, yes, I would say the temperature is changing somewhat by inching upwards, based on temperature data.  The voracity of some storm events are very damaging, as viewed over my lifetime in this geographic area.  Friend to friend, I would think about moving to Europe if I was you.  You are going to experience a cataclysmic event in the near future that will have devastating effects on the UK.  At least that's what my research shows.  But, it's just the rantings of a conspiracy nut, that's what my friends say.
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I'm very skeptical of global warming. When I was a kid back in the seventies the conventional wisdom was there would be a new ice age sometime around the year 2000. It was even a front page story in Time magazine. Fool me once...
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No. There are plenty of other theories. The EPA can't and hasn't proven any of their theories. Even a Harvard scientist said that we may just be recovering from a mini Ice Age that caused famine for 400 years (Ireland's potato famine). Who am I supposed to believe? I am not scared, although I do believe it is a good time to start reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Who knows what the cause of "global warming" is? Oh well. Let's just reduce greenhouse gas emissions. There's nothing harmful in that.