Is this "Global Warming" problem just a popular thing to talk about, or is it really an issue?

Despite what Slim Whitman says, global warming (at least based on scientific EVIDENCE) is a real occurance and as such will develope into an actual problem. Slim is correct in his assertation that the earth has experienced warming and cooling trends over the course of its history. Where he and most other "anti-global warming" people tend to falter, is the fact that these periods of change take place over thousands to tens of thousands of years. Subtle changes in atmosphere such as a volcano venting gases or a shift in plant-life to a less nitrogen consuming species can result in variences of global temperature. One needs to look at the fragility of this planet and how such minute changes can have global temperature effect spanning generations... then take a step back and observe the vast amount of atmospheric change that the human race is accountable for. How many vehicle emissions, how many production factories, and just how many people exist in general... if subtle changes in nature can have such climate altering effects such as the last ice age, then how can we NOT be affecting global climate. This fact in conjuction with all the scientific evidence concerning green house gases and volumetric quantities of additional chemical production, as well as the recent shift in global climate that has been readily recorded within the last 80 years... the melting of the poles resulting in reduced habitat for the indiginous species, the abundant amounts of tropical storms (which will only get worse and cover a larger distance as ever increasing warm fronts react with cold fronts as the tropical belt moves northward) all resulting in arid areas expanding, resulting in larger rates of famine and less nourishment production all the while the population will continue to increase. When given thousands of years to adapt to climate change, the world has time to adjust accordingly. When given a hundred years to adapt to that same level of climate shift, will the world yield the same results? My guess is that it will not, likely in my lifetime I will see the extinction of the Polar bear, penguin and arctic versions of sea lions as their hunting grounds are continually depleted at a rate to which they cannot adapt (do some research, this is already happening). We as a species need to be more consciencous of our actions and hopefully someday we will find a balance with nature. In the meantime, do not listen to party line rhetoric, from either side, and look at the facts of nature... it is happening, and its happening faster than it has in ANY recorded history. Is it coincidence to be written off by those who stand to gain? I do not believe so.

It is both a popular thing to talk about and really an issue too. However, this world has been going to hell in a handbasket for a very long time, at least as long as there have been people and handbaskets. Global warming is just the newest popular problem. As in the past, the problem is both worse than and not as bad as people say, depending in which people you listen to.

it is a serious issue .In my country (china ) ,more and more people are paying attention the global warming.several years ago ,it was very cold in Oct.but in the recent 2 year it is hot in Oct . i think it have something to do with Global Warming.and i believe we should do something about it if we want to live in a healthy circumstance

It depends on who you ask. If you ask an oil company or a politician who has oil interests then no, global warming is no problem at all and anyone who says otherwise wants to harm western economies. If you ask a scientist they might say maybe, we can't really tell right now but with everything that is going on, something bad might happen. If you ask an eco-warrior then it would be a big yes, the greenhouse gasses caused by burning fossil fuels will cause dramatic climatic changes. Where I live the different layers of rocks show desert, then warm tropical shallow seas, then muddy sea and finally deep valleys caused by massive glaciation and that was all before any people existed at all. The climate changed by itself. I personally think that we need to cut down our energy habit for all sorts of reasons including global warming, just in case.

I'm no scientist, just an englishman living in Russia. For the last 3 years the snow has come about one week before Christmas, yet before the snow arrived the beginning of November. There aren't even any records to compare with this years mild winter's start. So I would have to say that it isn't a trend or myth but fact. Unfortunately the situation is getting worse..... Syntax Wizard

There is a small percentage of people who think global warming is just a hoax, but an overwhelming majority of scientists believe it is a virtual certainty. If you want more information on the subject, I would suggest watching one of 2 documentaries: HBO's "Too Hot Not to Handle" or Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth"

Hi, Global warming is a real issue here. If people could reduce the amount they drive, if President Bush would stop bombing countries, if factories reduced their smog output we would not be facing this global warming issue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming please visit this page for all your answers to global warming. The earths temperature will continue to get warmer the more we pollute it and don't respect mother earth. I worry that my children will not have a wonderful place to grow up because of global warming. Global warming is one of the reasons our weather is so unpredictable.

MYTH created for social control by liberals. Tell liberals to quit acting like pseudo-scientists and look at the earth over the last 4.6 billion years. the Global warming "pseudo-science" fails as science because it lacks factual data to back it up except for short-term fluctuations.. The real science of geology and other earth sciences, have empirical data that show our climate has fluctuated many times through out the existences of the earth. This happens for a variety of reasons, (not human related and thus not controllable by humans.) The arrogance of the left is that we can some how control "weather and climate" by reducing CO2 emissions from everything from Cows to Cars. Astronomers have proven the earth has an eliptical orbit around the sun that oscillates over 180,000 year period, in the fluctuation in apogee / perigee in proximity with our sun we are in what is called an "interglacial period" this has lasted for the last 10,000-20,000 years, as the cycle get closer to the sun, DUH the earth will warm. Over the last 4-6 billion year CO2/02/NO2 levels fluctuate as well, with or without human present. I really wish you DOLTS would wake up and smell the coffee. Pick up a book on geology and paleoclimatology instead of buying the myth of AlGore hook, line and sinker. For crying out loud, at least read Michael Crichton's "State of Fear" for an alternative piece fiction to AlBore's work of fiction. I cannot believe the percentage brain dead sheep that have bought into this drivel.. Wanted to add this article I found this morning: 12/18/2006 Media Shows Irrational Hysteria on Global Warming "The Public Has Been Vastly Misinformed," NCPA's Deming Tells Senate Committee 12/6/2006 5:57:00 PM To: National Desk Contact: Sean Tuffnell of the National Center for Policy Analysis, 972-308-6481 or [email protected] WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- David Deming, an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma and an adjunct scholar with the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), testified this morning at a special hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. The hearing examined climate change and the media. Bellow are excerpts from his prepared remarks. "In 1995, I published a short paper in the academic journal Science. In that study, I reviewed how borehole temperature data recorded a warming of about one degree Celsius in North America over the last 100 to 150 years. The week the article appeared, I was contacted by a reporter for National Public Radio. He offered to interview me, but only if I would state that the warming was due to human activity. When I refused to do so, he hung up on me. "I had another interesting experience around the time my paper in Science was published. I received an astonishing email from a major researcher in the area of climate change. He said, "We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period." "The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) was a time of unusually warm weather that began around 1000 AD and persisted until a cold period known as the "Little Ice Age" took hold in the 14th century. ... The existence of the MWP had been recognized in the scientific literature for decades. But now it was a major embarrassment to those maintaining that the 20th century warming was truly anomalous. It had to be "gotten rid of." "In 1999, Michael Mann and his colleagues published a reconstruction of past temperature in which the MWP simply vanished. This unique estimate became known as the "hockey stick," because of the shape of the temperature graph. "Normally in science, when you have a novel result that appears to overturn previous work, you have to demonstrate why the earlier work was wrong. But the work of Mann and his colleagues was initially accepted uncritically, even though it contradicted the results of more than 100 previous studies. Other researchers have since reaffirmed that the Medieval Warm Period was both warm and global in its extent. "There is an overwhelming bias today in the media regarding the issue of global warming. In the past two years, this bias has bloomed into an irrational hysteria. Every natural disaster that occurs is now linked with global warming, no matter how tenuous or impossible the connection. As a result, the public has become vastly misinformed." --- The NCPA is an internationally known nonprofit, nonpartisan research institute with offices in Dallas and Washington, D. C. that advocates private solutions to public policy problems. NCPA depends on the contributions of individuals, corporations and foundations that share our mission. The NCPA accepts no government grants. http://www.usnewswire.com/

colder winters more rain, that's what AL ignorantass Gore says. global warming is a gigantic farce.