What are your thoughts on Global Warming? No expertise required, just curious to hear opinions.?

IMHO and from what I was taught at school. We as the human race do not know enough facts about the earth to make such allegations. We know that once the earth was covered in ice, we know that the continents were joined together. We know the dinosaur's disappeared. We do know that the earth has been through this before. But there is lots we dont know and will never know. Maybe global warming as we call it, is the end of an ice age, and thats why we are getting warmer and the polar ice caps melting. It is just the earth going through its normal cycle like all the other planets out there. 20 odd years ago they predicted we were going back into an ice age! Just because these people are supposed to be intelligent, does not mean they are right. But then again, theres money to be made, and that makes the world go round??

Several months ago, NASA stated that the mean temperature on Mars had increased. In other words, Martian global warming. Since there are no cars or factories on Mars (that we know of) we can conclude that global warming occurs naturally. Take that Al Gore!

i say maybe its the way it is suppose to go, ice age etc now global warming..

facts are, geology shows us the temperature has always risen and fallen over the life of the planet,natural phenomena e,g, the gulf stream (atlantic conveyor) has stopped and started many times in its history, mankind can only have a very marginal effect on the forces that are currently warming us up.

AGW is a political issue not a scientific one and is intended to keep the current mass-market energy suppliers on the top of the heap and prevent independent competitors from usurping their control of energy production and distribution. So far the only alternative fuel that has come to market is corn based ethanol and it is driving the cost of any food made with grain up as fast as oil. There are very few options out there right now for consumers to get away from the control of the big boys. Example, look at what you are paying across the board for every kind of energy compared to what it cost before they came up with the con. What would I do, cut all of my energy use to the minimum possible and shift some of it to solar or wind generation of your own grid linked but with some battery capacity in case of brown/black outs normal or rotating. Read Farnhams freehold by Robert Heinlein!

It's an interesting but unproven theory and the more I look into it, the more I read up on it, the more questions I have than answers. Most of the people now telling us that "it's really climate change, it's really not about the whole planet heating up, it means more 'weird weather'" did in fact tell us, from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, that in fact it was about the whole planet heating up - that "the planet" had "a fever." Only when it was clear that the actual increase in temperatures had leveled off and had given way to what is possibly more volatile weather did they say change the main thrust of their predictions from "global warming" to "climate change." There are too many contradictions, too many story-line changes, too many exaggerations, and too many mis-statements or out and out lies. The theory isn't that the CO2 alone will increase the temperatures to dangerous levels - the dangerous levels prediction is based on a positive feedback from the release of methane that would result from the initial warming. But, it's been slightly warmer, and it's been almost as warm, for centuries at a time, when CO2 levels were lower, and the methane release didn't happen, the warm period gave way to a cool period, and everything was just fine. That doesn't mean it CAN'T happen the way they predict it will - but certainly that's not the most likely scenario.

Global warming is real and has been documented with ice cores dating back tens of thousands of years. What is NOT real is the quackery that humans caused (or can even affect) global warming. The scare tactics being perpetrated upon us are only a money/power grab scheme by bottom-feeder politicians accompanied by their so-easily-led sheeple who take their prattle, even their movies, as hard science . To find that my statement above is true, follow the money. See just who it is who will profit from the carbon offset, carbon tax, & etc. Here is truth about global warming: Global warming is one-half of the climatic cycle of warming and cooling. The earth's mean temperature cycles around the freezing point of water. This is a completely natural phenomenon which has been going on since there has been water on this planet. It is driven by the sun. Our planet is currently emerging from a 'mini ice age', so is becoming warmer and may return to the point at which Greenland is again usable as farmland (as it has been in recorded history). As the polar ice caps decrease, the amount of fresh water mixing with oceanic water will slow and perhaps stop the thermohaline cycle (the oceanic heat 'conveyor' which, among other things, keeps the U.S. east coast warm). When this cycle slows/stops, the planet will cool again and begin to enter another ice age. It's been happening for millions of years. The worrisome and brutal predictions of drastic climate effects are based on computer models, NOT CLIMATE HISTORY. As you probably know, computer models are not the most reliable of sources, especially when used to 'predict' chaotic systems such as weather. Global warming/cooling, AKA 'climate change': Humans did not cause it. Humans cannot stop it.

I think it is the biggest load of poo! lol The sun has no sunspots, and hasn't for a month or two, which means that the worlds temperature is rising but the world needs to heat up before it cools down. Scientists think that in about 30 years there will be another ice age, so then we will all have to move down south to Africa and so on, they find remains of animals and humans there all the time which means that in the last ice age animals and human had to go there too. I think that global warming has nothing to do with pollution and all that, it is to do with nature and its just the way the world is changing, although, saying that pollution probably doesn't help but it doesn't make a big difference. People are saying that the ice caps are melting, that is just nature aswell, what is stopping the ice caps from becoming ice again? I dont know what all the fuss is about really. Thats my point of view.. im only 13 xD but i honestly think that its just the world changing ^^

Its all cyclical, we go through periods of exreme warmth, drought and cold etc. Don't suppose we are helping in reducing the cycle, but hey, we get good tans, no longer have hose pipe bans and the economy makes a good living out of the scaremongering. Oh well, lets burn some more fuel, so I can continue to use this electircal appliance.