Well, I am not going to provide/aruge each specific scientific evidence, but it is already recognized by major international organizations such as U.N if you ask me.

We are already suffering from global warming (New Orleans, for instance.) and all three major candidates in this election made global warming as one of major issues here.

One thing I dislike is that if we really work on something about global warming, ALL of nations need to do same thing. It is not fair to U.S to put regulations itself while China and India make even more pollutions. :/

The fact that global temperatures saw an increase over a certain period of time was proven, yes. You are right on that point.

The theory that the temperature increase was not cyclical, and more to the point, was man made, was not proven, and would seem to be undermined by events such as the warming on other planets in the solar system over the same time which cannot be attributed to human habitation.

How do you consider random name calling intelligence? Sorry, I don't get the connection. TP has offered little constructive to the conversation, and has, in fact, refused to support his own ridiculous assertions.

I am willing to bet that, SUV aside, my family and I leave less of an environmental impact than you do. I believe in taking care of the environment because it's good sense, not because of chicken little extremism that is highly questionable in its nature.

If you read through the entire post, the only person who has made insults and non-intelligent remarks is that person.  However, that is typical from the left.

 

LOL, the U.N.  They have no credibility for anything.

 

New Orleans?  You really should take a look at history and see how many hurricanes have hit the Gulf.  Not only that, lets not forget the fact that New Orleans is under sea level. 

The things people believe....

 

 

Liar. You have never offered even a shred of evidence. And I know you wont now, just some more childish taunts and lies.

*Brinks on some of comments.


Calm down guys.

I am not going to say that all people who drive SUVs should be burned in hell.

I just want to point out that the temperature record clearly shows that the current rise of the temperature is not a normal at all. We just put polar bears as threatened species because the ice on the north is melting. Do you really need more evidence for rising temperature?

On top of that, IPCC already declared that the cause of the global warming is most likely due to people' activities, and the majority of scientists agree that it is true. I don't know what other organization have more authority than IPCC on this subject, other than U.N itself which created IPCC a long time ago.

To people who dislike/distrust the U.N, I highly recommend you guys to search for what are the things U.N does. The 'political' part (which criticizes U.S.A) of the U.N is just 'part' of the U.N. The U.N does really a wide range of works, including quite a large volume of scientific researches which is not related to 'political' part of the U.N.

For New Orleans case, granted. I admit that this is still less than a theory which is not fully supported by proofs. But indeed we have more intense hurricanes each year, and the numbers are already published as evidence. I never said hurricanes did not exist before the global warming. (Come on, do not try to intendedly misinterpret my writing like that. You can do better than that. )

I was just curious how many, out of all of you here arguing on this topic (more of the global warming topic than the obama sucks topic), actually have taken a wide curriculum of science at an accredited university, or at least just plain understand the various principles behind science. I just implore anyone who doesn't truly understand science past "science is what the lab guys do to figure stuff out" to please stop having scientific debate. It's not constructive and for the most part many of the points are born from ignorance, not necessarily stupidity. I don't know who you people are, and most likely the majority of you will happen to hold advanced degrees in whatever the topic of choice is, but if any of you aren't 100% on exactly what science is and how it works, go read something somewhere and hopefully that can clarify things. If not ..I guess that just sucks.

What an elitist, bigoted and completely stupid arguement. I don't have to have a PhD to be able to think for myself.

Actually, your SUVs and thermostats are killing the planet. You know how much gas an SUV guzzles? Too much! It is a waste, no wonder there are now UN sanctions being placed on the car companies unless they comply with green regulations. If we dont start trying to save the environment, we can kiss any future our children might have good bye.

For those who buy in to the man-made global warming idea, how do you explain the corresponding temperature changes on other planets in our solar system? Do we have people there driving around in SUVs of which I am not aware?

Geologic and fossil evidence indicates clearly that the planet has gone through periods of warming and cooling in the past and is likely to do so in the future. Get over it and find something truly worthwhile upon which to spend your energy and dollars.

I don't quite do not understand what are you saying about. You mean all of planets' temperature is increasing at same time?

For instance, I am not surprised the such extreme temperature change in Mars, Mercury and Plute, since they have little/no atmosphere. You know, they are different planets and I wonder how these could be counter example for the Earth case.


We all know there is warming period and cooling period (a.k.a Ice age.) And even thousand years of scale, we have a little warming period and little ice age. The problem is, the current rise of temperature is just beyond those previous changes.

Then you don't understand much about the subject at all. We're talking relative temperatures here. Temperatures on planets with or without an atmosphere are directly related to solar radiation. We know that the sun's radiation levels go through cycles. The temperature changes on other planets near us have gone up at about the same rate over time as here on Earth. The only explanation for this is solar activity unless there are cities and SUVs on those planets.

Well, Republican nominee John Mccain has some fancy section in his website, carefully covering global warming issues.

http://www.johnmccain.com/climatechange/