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Is Global Warming a myth?

Is Global Warming a myth?


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We are having record cold temperatures and snowfall in history across the United States so the question begs to be asked...
 
We are having record cold temperatures and snowfall in history across the United States so the question begs to be asked...

A couple points:

1) a few days of cold in one area do not prove or disprove anything.

2) your poll lacks an option for a "maybe" type answer. I suspect, based on what I have read, that yes global warming is happening, and probably man made causes are contributing to it. However, like most of the people who will respond to this, I am not a scientist. I do not have the background to know for sure. I will not fall into the trap that many will of saying "yes" or "no" when I know full well I am not qualified to say.
 
Yes, & the proof is they cooked the books to get the 'correct' outcome....
Has anyone seen or heard from Al Gore?.....:mrgreen:
 
A couple points:

1) a few days of cold in one area do not prove or disprove anything.

2) your poll lacks an option for a "maybe" type answer. I suspect, based on what I have read, that yes global warming is happening, and probably man made causes are contributing to it. However, like most of the people who will respond to this, I am not a scientist. I do not have the background to know for sure. I will not fall into the trap that many will of saying "yes" or "no" when I know full well I am not qualified to say.

A few days.....Tell that to the people who are suffering through this.....

No maybe, no room for a cop out vote..........
 
A few days.....Tell that to the people who are suffering through this.....

No maybe, no room for a cop out vote..........
of course, the science tells us the earth is warming. the causes are what's at issue.
 
No, it is not, because:

As far as I am aware, the earth has always been warming, cooling, and in general constantly changing its temperature.

Nothing mythical about it.
 
We are having record cold temperatures and snowfall in history across the United States so the question begs to be asked...

Man made global warming is a myth.Natural global warming is not a myth,there is real actual evidence to support natural global warming and natural global cooling seeing how there is evidence of past ice ages. I assume that is what you meant so that is why I voted yes.
 
A few days.....Tell that to the people who are suffering through this.....

No maybe, no room for a cop out vote..........

A few days is nothing in trends over years. A few days in a relatively small area is even less. Don't get all foolish over this, or next heat wave I will do this same crap.

And you are asking people who are almost entirely not qualified to really judge the data their opinions, and not giving a "dunno for sure" type option. That is just foolish, and leading people to make foolish statements.
 
of course, the science tells us the earth is warming. the causes are what's at issue.

There are more and more scientists out there every day that might disagree with you.....Just go to google and type in global warming myth and you will see...........
 
I think the evidence for anthropogenic global warming has been steadily weakening since about 2007, and I feel less confident saying that it's definitely happening than I would have then. With that said, the preponderance of evidence still supports the theory, and cold weather is completely irrelevant to any evidence for or against it.

But regardless of the truth or falsity of the theory itself, I strongly dislike the cult-like following the theory has attracted.
 
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There are more and more scientists out there every day that might disagree with you.....Just go to google and type in global warming myth and you will see...........

All I get is that petition that doesn't check your credentials and actually touts all the Dentists that think Global Warming is a myth (I doubt the people running the petition realized they were dentists and thought that cool group of letters stood for something else).
 
There are more and more scientists out there every day that might disagree with you.....Just go to google and type in global warming myth and you will see...........
they might, and they might not. you weren't exactly clear in your poll, however. so, my take is that global warming is real, but i'm not certain about the causes.
 
they might, and they might not. you weren't exactly clear in your poll, however. so, my take is that global warming is real, but i'm not certain about the causes.


I try and make it as simple as I can for my friends on the left........Its a simple yes or no......I did not mention man made or not...........
 
I try and make it as simple as I can for my friends on the left........Its a simple yes or no......I did not mention man made or not...........
which is the crux of the matter, in many opinions.
 
I try and make it as simple as I can for my friends on the left........Its a simple yes or no......I did not mention man made or not...........
Well, it seems obvious to me that there have been many climate changes in the history of the world, fluctuating up, down, back up, and so on.
So it would seem that “Global Warming” could indeed be happening, or it might be back to “Global Cooling” now. Who knows? Who cares? It’ll happen whether we try to do something about the weather or not.
 
Well, it seems obvious to me that there have been many climate changes in the history of the world, fluctuating up, down, back up, and so on.
So it would seem that “Global Warming” could indeed be happening, or it might be back to “Global Cooling” now. Who knows? Who cares? It’ll happen whether we try to do something about the weather or not.

Well someone cares because I got almost 20 responses to this thread in a half hour...........
 
Given that the issue with global warming is that scientists are alarmed that the global average temperature might raise 1 or 2 degrees celsius over 100 years, a little snow is not enough to prove or disprove anything.
 
Well someone cares because I got almost 20 responses to this thread in a half hour...........
Perhaps that is because they (as I) thought it might be asking a different question, as in:

Is human caused Global Warming or Global Climate Change a myth?

In which case, the obvious answer is a resounding no. IMO.

And that is where the debate takes place.
 
Given that the issue with global warming is that scientists are alarmed that the global average temperature might raise 1 or 2 degrees celsius over 100 years, a little snow is not enough to prove or disprove anything.

Last year in the PNW we had record breaking tempertures and snow so my question for you is how many years does it take? a few years ago the same scientists that are predicting global warming today were predicting a new ice age..........
 
But there have been hints that it was coming. The 2009 U.S. Climate Impacts Report found that large-scale cold-weather storm systems have gradually tracked to the north in the U.S. over the past 50 years. While the frequency of storms in the middle latitudes has decreased as the climate has warmed, the intensity of those storms has increased. That's in part because of global warming — hotter air can hold more moisture, so when a storm gathers it can unleash massive amounts of snow. Colder air, by contrast, is drier; if we were in a truly vicious cold snap, like the one that occurred over much of the East Coast during parts of January, we would be unlikely to see heavy snowfall.

But as far as winter storms go, shouldn't climate change make it too warm for snow to fall? Eventually that is likely to happen — but probably not for a while. In the meantime, warmer air could be supercharged with moisture and, as long as the temperature remains below 32°F, it will result in blizzards rather than drenching winter rainstorms. And while the mid-Atlantic has borne the brunt of the snowfall so far this winter, areas near lakes may get hit even worse. As global temperatures have risen, the winter ice cover over the Great Lakes has shrunk, which has led to even more moisture in the atmosphere and more snow in the already hard-hit Great Lakes region, according to a 2003 study in the Journal of Climate.

Snowstorm: East Coast Blizzard Tied to Climate Change - TIME

I must lengthen this post to ten characters.
 
Global warming isn't just a myth. It's a flagrant LIE.

Liberals cling to this nonsense because it is politically beneficial for them to do so. If they can pass their green agenda, it will result in an unprecedented governmental power grab.
 
Last year in the PNW we had record breaking tempertures and snow so my question for you is how many years does it take? a few years ago the same scientists that are predicting global warming today were predicting a new ice age..........

This entirely random photo from google images that I do not believe is any sort of evidence one way or another in this debate (I am an agnostic on the issue) shows a warming of somewhere between 2 and 5 degrees C over 100 years, so you will likely be dead before the bad stuff being predicted hits.

Global-Warming-Predictions.jpg


However, the important thing is that this is an average increase. It doesn't mean we won't have temperature variations from year to year or region to region.
 
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The planet goes through warming and cooling trends. Since 1998, we've been in a cooling trend, prior to that was a warming trend. These things happen and have happened throughout history. Right now though, you've got a lot of liberals who are running around screaming the sky is falling and, of course, it has to be all our fault. Never mind all the money they're making off of it, it's got to be all our fault!

The fact is, there isn't any significant evidence that the current trends are anything out of the ordinary or that they have much, if anything to do with human activity. But don't tell that to the liberals who are selling books and carbon credits, they'd lose millions.
 
The planet goes through warming and cooling trends. Since 1998, we've been in a cooling trend, prior to that was a warming trend. These things happen and have happened throughout history. Right now though, you've got a lot of liberals who are running around screaming the sky is falling and, of course, it has to be all our fault. Never mind all the money they're making off of it, it's got to be all our fault!

The fact is, there isn't any significant evidence that the current trends are anything out of the ordinary or that they have much, if anything to do with human activity. But don't tell that to the liberals who are selling books and carbon credits, they'd lose millions.

Even if the earth is warming and it is our fault, there is very little we can do to prevent it, aside from abandoning industry altogether. IMO the better solution would be to press forward as quickly as possible to develop some good geoengineering solutions. Those would be much cheaper, more effective, and more plausible than cap-and-trade.
 
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