Is there a such thing as Global Warming seriously I want a really smart person to answer this!!?

Yes. But your local weather right now is not proof. Global warming is a slow, global change. This is proof. This is science and what counts is the data. "I wasn’t convinced by a person or any interest group—it was the data that got me. I was utterly convinced of this connection between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change. And I was convinced that if we didn’t do something about this, we would be in deep trouble.” Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, USN (Ret.) Former NASA Administrator, Shuttle Astronaut Here are two summaries of the mountain of peer reviewed data that convinced Admiral Truly and the vast majority of the scientific community, short and long. http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html summarized at: http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf It's (mostly) not the sun: http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-earth/FAQ2.html And the first graph above shows that the sun is responsible for about 10% of it. When someone says it's the sun they're saying that thousands of climatologists are stupid and don't look at the solar data. That's ridiculous. Science is quite good about exposing bad science or hoaxes: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/ATG/polywater.html There's a large number of people who agree that it is real and mostly caused by us, who are not liberals, environmentalists, stupid, or conceivably part of a "conspiracy". Just three examples of many: "Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich challenged fellow conservatives to stop resisting scientific evidence of global warming" "Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming." Senator John McCain, Republican, Arizona “DuPont believes that action is warranted, not further debate." Charles O. Holliday, Jr., CEO, DuPont There's a lot less controversy about this is the real world than there is on Yahoo answers: http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_page/412.php?lb=hmpg1&pnt=412&nid=&id= And vastly less controversy in the scientific community than you might guess from the few skeptics talked about here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686 "There's a better scientific consensus on this [climate change] than on any issue I know... Global warming is almost a no-brainer at this point. You really can't find intelligent, quantitative arguments to make it go away." Dr. Jerry Mahlman, NOAA Good websites for more info: http://profend.com/global-warming/ http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462 http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/ http://www.realclimate.org "climate science from climate scientists"

Yes, the Earth is warming.

there is global warming there is no intelligent design

Global Warming isn't to blame for one warm December. Yeah the warmest 10 years on record have occurred in the last 14 years with 2005 being the hottest. Global Warming is happening but its not responsible for a warm December, at least not yet. What is going on here, is the weather pattern is a bit off. Weather is a current state of the atmosphere and climate is the average of several 100 years. One warm December doesn't really mean anything, all it means is an abnormally warm winter. And yes i do believe in "Global Warming."

There are a lot of reasons for global warming or global cooling, and it's called natural climate change. This is what the planet does. Nothing is constant. We have been in a warming trend since the end of the last ice age, approx. 10,000 years ago. In another 100,000 years or so we will be in a cooling trend and eventually Canada, most of No. Eastern U.S.A., and northern Europe will be under ice sheets as they were before. Yes, it's true. Read any book on climatology and you will have the facts.

http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462

just because it isn't snowing yet, may or may not be an effect of global warming. for those who say it is a theory need to catch up on the gossip. it is no longer a theory but a process the earth goes through continuously through its lifetime. However, man is speeding up this process, and carbon dioxide emmissions are depleteing the ozone layer. Which means our "protective layer" is no longer protecting us from the sun like it should be. therefore, it gets hotter and hotter each year. and it's not just Co2, it's chlorofluorocarbons as well. Chlorofluorocabons(CFCs) come from aerosol cans such as hairspray and other cleaning and household items. When chlorofluorocarbons are released into the atmosphere, the carbon molecules detach and "meet up" with other ozone molecules, the detach again, "killing" the ozone molecules. the cycle continues over and over. but since there are so many CFC molecules the ozone molecules cannot replenish them selves. Therefore, the ozone is vanishing. for more facts on global warming go to stopglobalwarming.org

Why don't people just automatically go to wikipedia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming

If you haven't chosen a side on this by now maybe it would help if you look at the bigger picture. The climate does change and weather or not people have caused any of it does not matter. The real issue is polution of the air, land and water and pumping CO2 into the atmosphere is just a small part of the total problem of polution. Why not fix the problem and stop the finger pointing and dumb projects to reduce the use of energy? This is a problem that has been growing for a few centuries and there are lots to things that need more attention than global warming.