Your take on Global Warming??

I am just gonna say two things, 

• there is not the IPCC opinion and the "other" opinions, the IPCC makes it his task to review all the scientific articles. So yeah, there is climate change, and it is as bad as they say. Or, wait, maybe 1000+ scientists in the field are all part of a conspiracy theory, and you're ignorant physics teacher is right.
  
• About this winter, it was freakishly cold here in Germany as well, and it was long and very snowy. Still, globally, it was the second warmest January in the last 200 years.

"I agree with many of you.  It doesn't matter if "Global Warming" is happening or not, we should still aim to reduce pollution. "

People at Giantbomb care more about lolicon laws than global warming.

Global warming was changed to climate change because "global warming" is not an accurate way to describe what is happening.

" F.    It's happening but its not our doing.  The world heats and cools naturally. "

Every time our planet cools most of the life on it dies you fucking retard. Being a natural occurrence doesn't change the consequences nor does it change our ability to counteract it. I bet you felt like you dropped a big ol trump card on the thread huh dipshit.

 
Its fake.
 
Dont trust me,but i think its fake.

" @ReaperOfLiving   Back the time line up a few thousand years and you will see it used to be much higher and came down "

I think there is Global Warming, but that it is a normal occurrence.
 
Median temperatures fluctuate wildly as time passes, and we were in a period of global cooling in the past 30 decades until Global Warming started.

Glad I didn't make this a blogpost, then i'd have like 300 in my inbox

" @VoodooTerror said:

" the climate is changing but because it always has and always will, we have nothing to do with it "

@ShadowofIntent said:

" F.    It's happening but its not our doing.  The world heats and cools naturally. "

man it's just too bad the thousands of scientists who've spent their entire lives studying the earth's climate weren't aware of that durhurdurhurdurhur video game forums, where the world's problems are diagnosed and solved by under-educated children "

The world cools and heats naturally. This is true.
 
Carbon emissions exacerbate this process by trapping the suns rays (can't remember what kind they are) inside our atmosphere. This is also true.
 
Carbon emissions also make it harder for the sun's rays to get in in the first place, which causes certain parts of the world to cool. This, suprisingly, is true as well.
 
Overall then, part of it's natural, part of it's our doing. However, people seem to think the idea of half of the UK being underwater in 100 years time isn't a problem because we'll have nice weather. I would suggest that the weather wont be half so nice once the mass exodus of people from these unliveable areas forces us into the underground slums of cyber-London.

It's not a decision of whether you think it is real or not... because it is real. I'm an Environmental Engineer, and I have studied it first hand. But global warming is a dumb name, and the green house gas effect is not the only reason why the Earth's climate is changing so much. 
 
The Earth has a few cycles in its rotation that effect the warming of the planets surface, including its eccentricity period (a 100,000 year cycle where the earth rotates around the sun in different shapes), its precession period, and its obliquity period. The fact is, about every 100,000 years, the Earth has always cycled between heating up and drastically cooling down (ice age). What worries scientists is the rate at which it is happening this time. 
 
Green House Gasses (GHGs)  are gasses that react with UV light rays which causes them to disperse light radiation that is being given off by the Earth. Some of this radiation will go back to the earth and warm it up. These GHGs include CO2, CH4, NO2, O3 (ozone), and most of all... H2O (water).  
 
There are two general things we can do to ensure the ice age doesn't come 50,000 years early is take measures to reflect the light out of the earth (space mirrors, salt clouds, even pumping silicon into the atmosphere) or reduce the amount of GHGs being pumped into our atmosphere. Developing countries like China are very apposed to reductions of the use of cheap energy like coal, and stubborn countries like the USA won't do it unless the developing countries do it.  

" I am just gonna say two things,  

• About this winter, it was freakishly cold here in Germany as well, and it was long and very snowy. Still, globally, it was the second warmest January in the last 200 years.

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" Fact: Pirate ladies are way hotter than ninja ladies.   "

The way the government would like to portray global warming is a hoax. 
 
The fact that the Earth goes through these cycles every couple hundred years or so...is not.

think about it this way.  the earth doesn't release air into space.  that means that all the poisonous fumes spewing out of factories, cars, etc.  are just staying in the atmosphere swirling around and gathering.  granted some does get absorbed by water, plants, etc.  but its a very very small percent.  have you guys not seen pictures of Beijing or L.A. where theres just a shit load of poisonous air/fog....that's not normal. the earth doesn't do that in its "cycles"

" The way the government would like to portray global warming is a hoax.  The fact that the Earth goes through these cycles every couple hundred years or so...is not. "

" The way the government would like to portray global warming is a hoax.  The fact that the Earth goes through these cycles every couple hundred years or so...is not. "

For fucks sakes. Your logic is flawless and your attention to scientific data remarkable.

" The way the government would like to portray global warming is a hoax.  The fact that the Earth goes through these cycles every couple hundred years or so...is not. "

" @jakob187 said:

" The way the government would like to portray global warming is a hoax.  The fact that the Earth goes through these cycles every couple hundred years or so...is not. "

Basically this. Shit happens. We get the occasional ice age so why not the occasional warming? "

See, South Park is correct.  Around 25% of all people are retarded.  This and the 911 thread support this. 

If it is there, then I believe it is natural. It also doesn't seem that significant to me right now. I just act like it's not there.

" @chrissedoff said:

" @VoodooTerror said:

" the climate is changing but because it always has and always will, we have nothing to do with it "

@ShadowofIntent said:

" F.    It's happening but its not our doing.  The world heats and cools naturally. "

man it's just too bad the thousands of scientists who've spent their entire lives studying the earth's climate weren't aware of that durhurdurhurdurhur video game forums, where the world's problems are diagnosed and solved by under-educated children "

To the defense of forum goers: our well being isn't bought and paid for grants.  When money is the influencing factor over whether a scientist takes one side or another on a political issue, then I suggest you learn to doubt those defend global warming regardless of data available and condemn the opinions of those who want a true scientific debate through ridicule and shouting.  Scientists will lie for grants and fame regardless of what the truth may be. "

" Yes, they will lie if they work at a university as these professors will do anything to be tenured and gain fame.  They know that receiving grants and being published are a major part of the tenure process and will do anything to meet these requirements.  Actual research and teaching comes second to this.   They will lie to further their career at the cost everyone around them.  Having worked for professors in various fields, this is sadly the state of the college systems.  There are honest ones as well, but they are generally not the ones with a great deal of fame attached to their name.   As I stated before, people such as yourself use ridicule to try to reduce the opinions of others.  If you wish to simply believe the words everyone else tells them just because they are scientists and they couldn't possibly be wrong, then so be it.  I personally prefer to review facts for myself that are presented and not that of those who questionable motives. "

" @Eisen said:

" Yes, they will lie if they work at a university as these professors will do anything to be tenured and gain fame.  They know that receiving grants and being published are a major part of the tenure process and will do anything to meet these requirements.  Actual research and teaching comes second to this.   They will lie to further their career at the cost everyone around them.  Having worked for professors in various fields, this is sadly the state of the college systems.  There are honest ones as well, but they are generally not the ones with a great deal of fame attached to their name.   As I stated before, people such as yourself use ridicule to try to reduce the opinions of others.  If you wish to simply believe the words everyone else tells them just because they are scientists and they couldn't possibly be wrong, then so be it.  I personally prefer to review facts for myself that are presented and not that of those who questionable motives. "

if were talking about "a small number of climatologists" or "a significant minority of climatologists", i would applaud your initiative into looking into the matter for yourself. but instead, here's you, staring down 90%+ of the world's most qualified climate scientists from dozens of nations and just assuming they're lying, because apparently you met a shady professor one time when you made him a salad in the cafeteria.  the very idea that you have done any kind of serious investigation into this subject is laughable. i don't know where you're from, but i learned the principles behind global warming in high school. and i went to public school. so i would be very surprised if your research wasn't primarily based on a tv cartoon written by a pair of college dropouts, or a tv show hosted by libertarian magicians. i'd be very curious to know whether your "facts" are coming from peer reviewed scientific journals, or articles you read in us weekly, because as much as you'd love to take a "fair and balanced" look at the subject, all of the hard data supports one side, and you choose to ignore it because it doesn't support your world view (or, more likely, you aren't able to interpret the data and, for all your boasting about making up your own mind based on the FACTS, you're too lazy to learn). get over yourself. you aren't galileo. you're a part of the church that excommunicated him. "

Climate change is definitely real, I just have no clue if it's my fault or not.

I'm not a big fan off all this global warming stuff but i'm not saying its not real it is real but just a short few months ago, I seen a comeback movie to AL Gore's "an inconvenient truth" called a convenient fiction which will give you all the real facts and as most people on the post have said the world has been heating and cooling thats the truth. 

i want to bump this

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