Is the whole global warming thing a big joke, or are people really that stupid?

These people are not stupid; EVERY major scientific organization has issued an official statement that this is real, and mostly caused by us. The National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Physics, the American Chemical Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Association, etc. Of course you could choose to believe political groups like 'alphapatriot' instead. but these guys think that's a mistake; "Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich challenged fellow conservatives to stop resisting scientific evidence of global warming" "National Review (the most prestigious conservative magazine) published a cover story calling on conservatives to shake off denial and get into the climate policy debate" The ice age ended because of changes in solar radiation called 'Milankovic cycles'; Google it for more info about these orbital changes. We know that's not happening now, because we measure solar radiation, also known as 'solar forcing'. "Recent oppositely directed trends in solar climate forcings and the global mean surface air temperature", Lockwood and Frolich (2007), Proc. R. Soc. A doi:10.1098/rspa.2007.1880 http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/media/proceedings_a/rspa20071880.pdf News article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6290228.stm

I think people can be that stupid; for example, it is impossible not to believe in global warming. Warming is a fact. We burn hydrocarbons to create heat and increase the electromagnetic radiation emissivity of our atmosphere. The discussion is then over the extent of the effects of these actions. I can understand if someone doesn't think we cause a large portion of global warming, I cannot understand why anybody would deny that we have anything to do with it completely, getting thier information from people who went to some right-wing school for political "science" or economics and think they understand more about thermodynamics and spectroscopy than engineers or meteorologists. EDIT: also, Dumdum, warming can cause an ice age because it messes solubility; salinity; density and therefore ocean convection current patterns.

They told people that they were causing an ice age back in the 70s (they also used scientists from NOAA and NASA to support their claims)--I guess people will constantly fall for anything.

There really are people that stupid. Al Gore won an nobel peace prize, that pretty much sums it up.

There are at least 5 recent glacial periods each of ~100000 years with a warm period in between of course these were caused by natural events. At the end of the last cold period 11-12 thousand years ago there were less than a million humans on Earth living simple hunter gatherer lives, now there are 6.7 billion, at present we are producing ~27 billion tons of co2 per year and that number is only going up, most is from carbon fuel sources locked under the ground since the time of the dinosaurs. Now the Earth avg temp is 50F then it was 60-70 and there were no icecaps at all we are turning the Earth back to those levels. How can we not be causing this. With some minor bounces due to weather anomalies the Co2 and temp and sea level have been moving up together over the last hundred years. alphapatriot and americanthinker speak for themselves as sites and what they would have to say i.e. exxon (I didn't waste my time even looking) The only real joke in the AGW debate is how silly some of the denier claims can get.

It is the biggest joke ever. I was looking at some charts this year..... and it has only gone up.. about .3 C since I believe it was like 1980

people want to feel special.. This gives them the oppurtunity, even though the idea of unnatural warming is a load of trash.

No, but the human race has obviously sped up the process of global warming.

apperently global warming shouldn't happen so fast nor should their be a hole in the Ozone layer but thanks to the human race and its reliance on everyday conveniences have sped up the proccess faster that it is possible for people to adjust to