Global Warming

They have flip flopped and been caught lying on many issues.

The hockey stick graph was the focal point of the first report. It was discovered that the data was just not factual. They made no retraction.

Climategate proved that many of the leading experts were lying about data. No retraction was made.

The IPCC has very few actual scientists and even fewer climate experts in their working group. The leader is an Economist. Of the 3000 people involved, only fewer than 60 are involved with science at all.

There models ignore and negative feed backs of water vapor and have managed to be unable to reproduce the past. (An essential element of the models ability to reliably predict the future). They place 90% realiability on models that are 60% accurate.

There projections have continuously been far more extreme when compared with the real weather patterns.

They claimed we should see an increase in the size and scope of hurricanes. Level 5 hurricanes are currently lower in number and NASA claims we are seeing a 30 year low in storms.

Arctic is is predicted to melt. Since 2007 Arctic summer ice has grown by 26%.

The 2007 report claimed a sea level rise of 3 to 5 mm. Less than 1 mm has been seen.

Would you trust a group that has no background in the subject and been wrong every time they suggested an event?

The IPCC has also been involved in other scandals including:

Himalaya-Gate - Alarmist report by the IPCC that the Himalyan glacier will have melted by 2035. As it transpired the report was without any scientific basis.

Amazon-Gate - The IPCC claimed that up to 40% of the rain forests in the Amazon were at risk from global warming and would likely be replaced by "tropical savannas" if temperatures continued to rise.

The scientific-looking report, on which this claim was based, was a non-peer reviewed article for the WWF, by an Australian policy analyst and a freelance journalist for the Guardian newspaper (not even experts let alone scientists!).

But the biggest scandal to date is the IPCC's claim, made in 1995, that it had found "a "discernible human influence" on the earth's changing climate. The claim was inserted by the report's lead author, Ben Santer of the Lawrence Livermore government laboratory, after the IPCC's consulting scientists had agreed a draft that specifically said no such "human fingerprint" had been found.

Due to this deliberate reversal of the report's findings, Santer also altered the trajectory of every IPCC document since. He argued that the alteration that it was justified based on two of his own studies, which "cherry-picked" the earth's temperature record from 1963-1987, deliberately ignoring temperatures that didn't confirm the Greenhouse theory. Thus the "discernible human influence" as claimed by the IPCC remains without scientific support to this day.

Global warming has occurred across the world, including in regions such as the Arctic, where temperatures have risen at a faster rate than the global average. Other impacted areas include Antarctica, where ice sheets are melting, leading to rising sea levels. Additionally, many regions have experienced extreme weather events like heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires due to global warming.

Polar bears do not cause global warming. In fact, polar bears are affected by global warming due to the shrinking of their sea ice habitat. The loss of sea ice reduces their hunting grounds and threatens their survival.

We certainly should not change the natural processes of global warming. It is well known that greenhouse gases, at about the right concentrations, keep the world at a comfortable temperature suitable for human existence.

But by adding new greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), we are changing that natural process. We need to stop interfering with nature and reduce our production of greenhouse gases before the recent rises in average global temperature cause irreversible damage.

Global warming can lead to changes in the state of matter by increasing temperatures, causing substances to shift from solid to liquid or liquid to gas more readily. For example, rising temperatures can accelerate the melting of glaciers and ice caps, turning solid ice into liquid water. Additionally, higher temperatures can increase the rate of evaporation, turning liquid water into water vapor more quickly.

• Riding bicycles.
• Walking to school.
• Walking to the corner shop instead of driving.
• Dressing warmly on cold days and leaving the electric heaters off.
• Dressing cooly on hot days and leaving the air conditioning off.
• Turning off your TVs and appliances at the wall instead of with the remote control.
• Turning your lights off when you leave a room.
• Turning computers off when you are finished reading WikiAnswers.

In the scientific community and especially among climate scientists, the most widely accepted theory is that global warming is real and is substantially caused by human activities such as burning fossil fuels. It is accepted that sea level rises of around 20 centimetres over the course of the twentieth century are the direct result of global warming, due to melting of glaciers and the polar ice cap, as well as the expansion of warmer water. It is believed that global warming is beginning to result in other climate changes such as more prolonged droughts and more frequent severe floods.

Average global temperatures are predicted to rise by a further 1 to 2 degrees Celsius over the course of the twenty first century, although some areas will be much hotter, while some could even be cooler. Sea levels are expected to rise in the present century by between 90 and 150 centimetres.

The greenhouse effect is the natural process by which greenhouse gases keep the earth's temperature at a comfortable level suitable for human existence. The enhanced greenhouse effect is the increase in greenhouse gases that is leading to global warming.

The term "enhanced greenhouse effect" is also referred to as the "anthropogenic greenhouse effect" and is the idea that humans may have an effect on global climate. It is also referred to as the "runaway greenhouse effect".

The earth has been warmer than this in the past, but before humans existed. Changes of temperature in earth's history have taken thousands and thousands of years to change. The global warming we have now, that has seen a speedy rise in temperature over 200 years, has never happened before.

Ice burgs are melting because of us; human beings, we are using cars, buses, trains etc. etc.

Where we are using cars and buses there fumes are being put with lots and lots of other chemicals and fumes and gases which is making a dome of greenhouse gases; which are melting the ice burgs !!

for a long as we know it, as we humans became more civilized we started using machines that polluted dangerous materials into the air. It may not have been a big deal back then but over time the build up of pollutants became worse off as technology evolved and mass producing increased.

In the long run, yes.

Terrorism has our attention because the dangers are now, here and measurable. But we can also do something about terrorism, both by destroying the target and by making civilised behaviour more attractive to potential terorist recruits.

Climate change can do far more economic harm than terrorism has, displace far more people from their homes, and result in the deaths of many, but that is a problem for the future: more especially for our grandchildren and their children. Those of us who are past childhood and early adulthood have less to fear from the consequences of global warming and can focus on the short-term economic advantages of doing nothing.

Reducing carbon emissions by using renewable energy sources, conserving energy, planting trees, and supporting policies that promote sustainability can help prevent global warming. Additionally, reducing waste, promoting clean transportation options, and advocating for stronger environmental regulations can also contribute to combating climate change.

Carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas) is given off by all animals when they exhale. Methane (another potent greenhouse gas) is emitted by ruminant animals as they digest cellulose with the aid of their intestinal bacteria. Humans are not ruminants and emit almost no intestinal methane. Burps are generally swallowed air which contains little or no greenhouse gas of any variety. The exception to this is when burping results from drinking a lot of carbonated beverages quickly. This gas would contain carbon dioxide.

Well, I'm not sure if this was a deliberate mistake but not every one believes what you are suggesting. There are many ignorant people in the world who just don't accept the facts of reality. Therefore, there is "doubt" that the world is becoming warmer. In my opinion, I think it would be best to change the imperative nature of the sentence. Hope this helped!

Latest evidence suggests the world is actually cooling...

These gases are called greenhouse gases. They act like a blanket, trapping heat in the atmosphere and contributing to the Earth's greenhouse effect. They play a vital role in keeping Earth's temperatures suitable for life.

Yes, the greenhouse effect is impacting our climate by trapping heat in the Earth's atmosphere and causing global temperatures to rise. This leads to various effects such as melting ice caps, rising sea levels, and more frequent extreme weather events. It is a major driver of climate change.

Forest fires release a lot of carbon dioxide that was being stored in the trees. This adds to the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. On the other hand, large amounts of smoke from forest fires can block the rays of the sun for a time, causing a temporary cooling.

The level of nitrogen gas in Earth's atmosphere increased over time due to the process of nitrogen fixation, where certain bacteria convert atmospheric nitrogen into forms that can be utilized by plants. Human activities like the burning of fossil fuels and industrial agriculture have also contributed to the increase in atmospheric nitrogen levels through the release of nitrogen compounds.

Scientists say that, as a consequence of human activity, global average temperatures are now rising faster than they have at any time in the past. Climate change is one of the predicted results, and includes more prolonged droughts in some areas, more severe and frequent flooding in others, as well as more severe storm activity. Rising sea levels will affect the littoral zone that provides feeding and breeding grounds for fish, as well as inundating coastal and riverine areas.

In past periods of temperature change, this occurred over a period of centuries and even thousands of years, allowing species to adapt or evolve to meet the environmental challenge. This time, change is occurring in a period of only decades, so that many species will not be able to either adapt or evolve and will simply become extinct, leading to a major loss of biodiversity.

With rising sea levels and increased storm surges, we can expect the destruction or abandonment of valuable coastal properties and, in other cases, the total displacement of entire populations. Many of the other direct consequences of climate change will result in economic losses, higher insurance premiums and potential food shortages.

Yes. It is embarrassing that the world's richest country wants to take a free ride on this issue, by letting other nations lead the way in reducing their greenhouse emissions. The science is in, and it is no longer possible to hide behind a claim that somehow we are not sure climate change is happening. It is simply a lack of political will on the part of some, and political opportunism on the part of others, that prevents more decisive action being taken

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Unfortunately, even the latest working report admits that there are many questions regarding the issues.

Even more amazing is the fact that so much of science needs to be ignored to make the comment that man is causing climate change.

The fact that 1850 was the low temperature portion of the last mini ice age should be noted and we can take hundreds of years to exit an ice age.

The fact the there are over 90,000 science observations from the 1800's that show CO2 levels slightly higher than today are also ignored to make the comment.

The Government should be allowing business to develop alternative energy sources. Focusing on a questionable issue with no honest method to recover from seems silly. This is different than focusing on CO2 reduction.

If global warming turns out to be an actual issue, and the science is still out on this (the politics certainly says the debate is over) then we will need to make changes. Drastic changes possibly. Until then, it is irresponsible as a country to force issues based on political science and mumbo gumbo.

Notice that the major producer of CO2 is given a pass? China can double it's output next year and no country will complain. The United States should take billions of it's dollar and waste it on, what results to no reduction during the worst economy in a generation? This would be foolish.

1. Burning of fossil fuels which releases long held carbon dioxide into the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
2. Deforestation: cutting down forests all over the world that used to hold vast amounts of carbon within their wood.