Man made global climate change or not: Which scientists are correct?

	Man made global climate change or not: Which scientists are correct? We're either going to waste an obscene amount of money or we're going to ignore a global catastrophe. There doesn't seem to be any in-between. How do we reach a consensus? Asked By: Pro Con - 11/4/2009

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This guy who asked this question last week does not realize that this week Colorado is setting record high temperatures. They say that it could get up in the seventies this week. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AiDYS2crqqdcWi_Zoac1GCDty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20091030081821AAZ2Etc&show=7#profile-info-60JDNyQdaa Edit: Kinkade, I know what Colorado weather is like, I've lived here for over fifty years. My point is,you can't have it both ways though. If Dim cites a freak snow storm as evidence that there is no such thing as global warming, then I can cite seventy degree weather here as proof that there is. You're also dead wrong about Antarctica. How can you ignore large pieces of ice breaking off, and still say it's colder than ever? That's absurd..http://www.livescience.com/environment/060330_warming_antarctic.html Here are some pictures of the Wilkins ice sheet breaking off in June of last year. June is Winter for the Antarctic. http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMG58VG3HF_index_0.html So much for your claim of the coldest weather in centuries. Kinkade it doesn't take much research to prove that you are the one who is misinformed. Did you ever hear of science? Edit: Furthermore all of this foot dragging by people here in the US is costing us jobs. The Japanese and the Chinese are going ahead with new solar cell technology while we argue about the reality of global warming. Look at how long it took for Americans to decide to finally start making hybrid and electric vehicles. Edit: As a long time resident of Colorado I would also like to say that the number of below zero days has decreased significantly. I remember when we used to get weather that was 20 below and it would stay like that for a week or more. It doesn't happen anymore..http://www.thedenverdailynews.com/article.php?aID=2249 I keep informed on how global warming impacts the region I live in. I have noticed that my heating bills are not as high as they used to be. Last year in Colorado Springs I would bet that we had less than a foot of snow for the entire Winter. For the snow storm last week we got less than an inch. When you hear about snow accumulations of a foot or more it is generally in the higher elevations. http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20090914/COLUMNS/909139984/1057 Answered By: Stainless Steel Rat - 11/4/2009

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Just take a look at Mt. Kilimanjaro. There used to be snow up there. Look at Antarctica. A lot of melting. That is causing a slow rise in the oceans and a decrease in salinity. These things are measurable. Will they make a difference? As the people who live in Miami what will happen if the Atlantic keeps rising. Answered By: Deke666 - 11/4/2009

The ones with the evidence. Answered By: Holy Cow! - 11/4/2009

You are entitled to your own interpretation, but not to your own facts http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/ Algore is a hypocrite, if he is so interested in global warming why does he still eat meat? Why does he still fly jets? Why does his monthly electric bill exceed the yearly bill of his Tenn. neighbors? HYPOCRITE! Answered By: White House Watching - 11/4/2009

Which Scientists are getting pay by the Corporations to do the research? Answered By: Milk Cow II - 11/4/2009

Why did AlGore tuna disappear ?? He has been given a chance to debate this on a world stage ... and is absent from his pet project Answered By: Cpt Crash - 11/4/2009

When environmentalists can stop the seasons from changing I may believe in man made global warming. Until then, I'll pass on trying to control the climate of the Earth. Answered By: zaza 1ST GRANDCHILD 2/2010!!! - 11/4/2009

This is like asking "who is to blame for a muddy river?" Without man's influence there would still be mud in the river, just not as much run-off from farms. At the same time, those who claim that man isn't responsible for reducing their effect on rivers as a result of farm run-off, are people who love to live in that bliss that intelligent people call ignorance. Answered By: qncyguy21 - 11/4/2009

No one knows the studies haven't been long enough to determine anything Answered By: Jack - 11/4/2009

By listening to expert opinion, rather than dis-information! Answered By: dylanfox - 11/4/2009

The global warming campaign is a farce. However pollution is obviously not a good thing and we should all work to reduce it in a reasonable way. That does not mean a tax or shutting down our small manufacturers. Answered By: Fido - 11/4/2009

The Earth can take care of its self, we are stupid to believe we can change anything for better or worse. Answered By: Docker - 11/4/2009

Further study and observation of what's going on is needed. There is conflicting data, but one thing is for sure. Right now, the globe is NOT warming. Global temps have not risen in over a decade, despite increased C02 emissions. The Pacific ocean is also getting cooler, not warmer When science becomes dogma, it ceases to be science It's become more of a political theory than a scientific one at this point. Lots of money to be made...Right Al Gore? Answered By: Thomas - 11/4/2009

Too late haha Answered By: accretion - 11/4/2009

We listen to 99?f climatologists! The scientists who are anti-Man Made reasons are the same who 10 years ago say it wasn't happening. We need to invest in Wind, Solar and Nuclear - TODAY. Jobs and a better life for our grandchildren. Answered By: Jesse - 11/4/2009

The planet has been cooling since 1998. Global warming is a hoax. Sun spots have more to do with our temperature than anything we could do. This was a cool summer; maybe we are entering a new ice age (joke). Answered By: Booth - 11/4/2009

The alleged science of global warming has never seemed to me to hold much water. To many assumptions based on incomplete data. Too much contradictory data left out and too many political figures who stand to make fortunes if they get enough people to blindly follow them. There is a very good reason that more than 30,000 scientifically educated people in the US signed a petition urging Bush not to sign the Kyoto Protocols. I hold two science degrees myself and believe the theory is wrong. Answered By: Bob G - 11/4/2009

Man has indeed effected the environment. The effect is negligible. The notion that man's puny attempts to keep his butt warm have somehow overcome the fires of nature is absolutely absurd. We have two basic needs. Air and Water. Climate change not withstanding, it makes sense for us not to dirty the air and water. We can do that without bankrupting ourselves and going back to trading Buffalo skins to keep from freezing to death. Answered By: JimSock - 11/4/2009

Ignore the climate crap and just give us clean air and water. What they are doing is trying to get more money from the people. Until China,India and Mexico do something to stop there emissions there is nothing anyone can do to change what we have now. Peace Answered By: PARVFAN - 11/4/2009

DEKE666: You my friend are grossly misinformed. Antarctica is experiencing some of the coldest weather in centuries. It's the North Pole that's experiencing a thaw while the South Pole freezes solid. It all has to do with polar wobble and our orbit around the sun. The side facing towards the sun gets more solar energy and thaws; the side facing away gets less and freezes. It changes over time, guess which is which right now. To my friend the Stainless Steel Rat: What you aren’t taking into consideration is that most of the front range received 12-18 inches of snow in late October, something that hasn’t occurred that early in the season in Colorado in roughly 10 years. It snows one week, then it’s sunny and 70 the next, welcome to Colorado. Answered By: Kinkade 0001 - 11/4/2009

If we use common sense and let nature take its course all will be well Answered By: Paul Grass - 11/4/2009

There is some foundation in what you draw your conjecture but the factor omitted is that the worst polluters are in China and India. Neither of which will participate nor sign into an international treaty to put controls on it. All the fortune and time we invest will still come up for naught considering the far exceeding damage done by those 2 countries. One of the largest polluting items in this country is aircraft engines but are those Americans willing to give up fast transportation? Not likely. Another atmospheric polluting factor is digestive gastric gas of livestock but not many are willing to give up hamburgers, steak, pork chops, and spare ribs, anymore than to give up leather items. Answered By: Raider - 11/4/2009

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