Global warming Definition and 217 Threads

Currently where I live, we are experiencing very cold winters (average temperature during the day is about 35 degrees Fahrenheit). Last summer was also a surprise where the average temperature was about 105 degrees Fahrenheit. I know that the latter event might be a cause of Global warming...

Quite a while ago, someone posted a flow-chart that showed how the "global warming lie" is repeatedly supported (one bubble being that scientists need funding for their research) I was wondering if anyone remember/knows of it and could dig it up and post it here for me. I'm not sure whether...

Global warming theory It is being observed that the earth’s atmosphere is warming up and it is speculated that carbon emissions are the cause. Since the atmosphere is getting warmer it will contain more moisture due to additional evaporation and warmer air holds more moisture than cold air...

Is it just me, or those studies show results that are extremely blown out of proportion?

This is the follow-up question. Assuming that there is a warming trend, please give your opinion as to the human contribution to this trend. Once again, I would hope that the opinion is informed and not fanciful or political. Sorry if none of these match your true opinion, but please choose...

Let's suppose that, as many of the posters here believe, there is a good possibility that global warming is not priimarily caused or even signficantly contributed to by human CO2 emissions. Let's suppose that there is a very good possibility also that CO2 concentrations are not signficantly...

The reason why this thread is here instead of the Earth science files, will be clear in the last sentence In the spring of this year I received a discussion-group E-mail with an early draft of this paper: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/0606291103v1.pdf Emphasis mine. As a reaction...

Can this be a "Global Warming" Solution? This has been referred to before, at least once in the article "Would You Buy an American Car?" Still, it would be interesting if we could get some opinions. It's along the lines of the T-Zero, but they make their own components. Here are a few sites...

Ok guys, this is the poll. Is there only a very small minority of educated people that are AGW skeptics? Global warming skeptics? I think most of us here are aquainted with the subject's aire de academia, but, please vote only if you know more than what was served to you on a silver platter...

Edit by Evo:Due to claims of plagiarism, certain posts have been deleted from this thread.

If you have ice cubes in a glass of water and they melt the level of the water goes down. Why are glaciers in the ocean different?

Is "Global Warming" hot? What is your sense of public awareness of and the attitudes towards this subject? It seems to me that in the US we have finally reached critical mass. Since to a large extent TV merely feeds people what they want to watch and what they already believe, and since TV...

If ocean levels go up enough, will they have an impact on the Earth's rotational speed and the Moon's orbital radius? If so what will the effect be? It seems that all these things are tide to one another.

I read an article on global warming stating that it is way too late to stop global warming, too late by far. Here is the link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/02/13/INGP4B7GC91.DTL Despite the fact that I consider myself to be an eternal optimist, I personally think...

yes this meteor is responsible for global warming. http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/tunguska.shtml

http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0510042 He says a rise in temperature, which began between 1906 and 1909, is not caused by rising CO2, but is attributable to the Tunguska Event, which rocked a remote part of Siberia, northwest of Lake Baikal on the 30th June 1908. The Tunguska Event, is...

It's going to be interesting to see how this all affects trade, politics, agriculture, navigation... and even travel. Talk about irony! http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2034643,00.html

Have a look at the recent model (link below) of how much space junk is orbiting Earth and please comment on if this amount of debris could contribute to what is known as global warming. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/01/0119_060119_space_junk.html

"If you love Jesus, you'll fight global warming" Talk about a paradigm shift! http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1594855

Although the titel suggests that the thread is about another planet, the real subject is the forcing character of CO2 greenhouse gas and so it's about global warming and hence it should belong in the Earth forum. If you write a Assessment Report for the IPCC about greenhouse effect on Earth...

Finally, we now know the cause of global warming http://www.nunatsiaq.com/news/nunavut/51223_10.html Here is Simeonie Aqpik describing the shift in the weather, and why the Inuit knew the climate would change. Most of what tells is exactly what the AGW scaremongers love to hear, but wait...

There is a warming cooling pulse in Earth’s life exemplified by tracks left from ancient glaciers to deserts once flush with flora and fauna. When did all this occur and why? Here’s what I think: Moon orbits Earth, Earth orbits Sun, Sun orbits Milky Way, Milky Way orbits ? Each event takes...

This paper has been stalled for almost a year and concequentely misses the latest climate reconstructions (Moberg etc) but finally somebody got the most brilliant and original idea:rolleyes: that the heating source itself may perhaps not be ruled out completely as a factor determining...

When researching the climate during the ice ages (Pleistocene) large isotope jumps were discovered in the ice cores , and obviously they were tied to the supposed large temperature changes. This was quite logical since those spikes seem to be co-dated with ice age transitions to moderate...

so I am thinkin of wrting and essay on global warming... ive kind of decided if I am going to write it on global warming i want to argue that it does not pose a real threat. Its so cliche to write essays on effects of glbal warming and how its going to ruin our Earth and all that media hype. If...

Hey there.. My pops read a book by Michael Crichton or someone like that that basically says global warming is not occurring. Every science magazine I read continually talks about global warming and shows how physicsists, climatologists, etc, are all working on ways to help remove CO2 from...

"Key Argument for Global Warming Critics Evaporates" http://www.livescience.com/environment/050811_global_warming.html

"Oregon summers reflect global warming" http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/uoo-uoo080805.php

The vote of the majority may say more about the convincing power of the ideas than provide an good understanding of the reality. But what do we think?

Global warming and "glaciers melting" In another thread I promised to go over all the alarming climate features like glaciers melting, sea levels rising etc, I think that was actually off topic over there so I start a fresh one. About the glaciers and ice sheets; yes, most glaciers are...

Wow! Bush says humans contribute to global warming! http://news.ft.com/cms/s/cb0c3b94-ee84-11d9-98e5-00000e2511c8.html Has hell frozen over?

Monique: Thank you for posting links to the two reviews on climate change, in the sticky thread. I am heartened to see that in fact, the PF are not comprised of global warming skeptics, as was my first impression. Both reviews lie with consensus opinion. It's been my experience that all "anti"...

According to http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/figspm-2.htm the carbon dioxide level has been rather constant thougout the last millennium before it started to skyrocket in the late 19th century. This information is based on the contents of ice cores of Polar ice sheets and glaciers...

http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/31031/story.htm

There is controversy about how certain the scientific community is of its conclusions about global warming: whether humans are influencing the climate and whether global temperatures will continue to rise rapidly in this century. There are two reviews that can be used as a reference for...

This number came up regarding the Permian mass extinction http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/da yearthdied.shtml I never realized that the threshold was so low. http://www.solcomhouse.com/metnoaa.htm This also ignores any potential tipping points which could come much sooner.

I know this may sound extremely silly... but, all ice at the north pole is floating... creating mass that would make the ocean higher than it would be... would that ice not be there, when ice melts it takes up less volume than when it is frozen? How would the north and south poles melting raise...

I doubt it, can anybody back up their opinions with credible sources and/or reason's why they think global warming is, or isn't human caused? I am interested in your opinions, that's why I am posting this topic. Edit: 78 members and 558 guests and 213 spiders (whatever the hell those are)...

Hi, Hers's my simple idea about global warming. The suns energy is absorbed by the earth. The Earth re-emits this energy as heat. Human technology emits greenhouse gasses and produces more heat. Green house gasses are increasing in the atmosphere. The more CO2 and other...

At the latitudes of the UK and Northern Europe we would expect a climate similar to that of Alaska or central Canada. Thanks entirely to the gulf stream, which bathes our shores with water carrying the heat equivalent of one million power stations, we currently have a much warmer climate. The...

"Unexplaining" global warming Realclimate is an initiative of concerned climatologists who may seem to fear that the global warming message is waning. I tested the objectivity of the place by applying the next comment: Obviously, the comment was not honored. Anyway, to anybody...

Article in the Daily Express by David Bellamy OBE Feb 3 2005. I first heard about global warming in the eighties and right from the start i didn't believe in it. I teach botany. i have researched and taught plant anatomy, ecological physiology and the history of vegetation at universities...

Suppose I am a defense attorney--I am NOT--arguing for an underdeveloped old-growth tropical rain forest and a coral reef from tumultuous destruction by development. If I could only save ONE, it would be the coral reef. (My instructor said something along the lines of: "The destruction of our...

I read somewhere that one of the dangerous consequences of global warming is another ice age, kinda like what we saw in the movie "The day after tomorrow" . My friend was arguing with somebody about whether global warming will cause a drop in temperature or instead rising temperatures. When I...

The global warming bane for flooded civilization, geology and ecosystems at low altitudes can be a bonus for glaciologists "while they last" in higher latitudes. Would you like to predict what treasures the thawing climate will reveal in the world's remaining glaciers?

Is this fair? Full Story I know this forum is full of arguments over whether or not global warming is even taking place, but even if it can be proven that it is, and that it is largely caused by greenhouse gases, is it fair to sue a nation for that? What is the U.S. doing that 90% of...

After writing this essay I decided to stop fighting the global warmings. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Recommendations For Global Warming Skeptics, an armchair analysis by Andre Apparently, one of the instincts for survival of a social species like Homo sapiens is social...

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-11/uow-std112904.php

Since there seems to be a lot of controversy about this, I thought I'd do a little poll to collect the oppinions of you guys. Is global warming a real threat caused by us, a purely natural occurence or a cross between misleading figures and political spin? Views & opinions appreciated.

Just a question I am a little stuck on. I missed last week's chem lecture: What effect would each of these changes have on global warming? a) volcanic eruptions b) CFCs in the troposphere c) CFCs in the stratosphere Here's what I think so far.. a) Volcanic eruption release large...