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Global warming has quickly become one of the most heated issues in America (pun intended). Rising temperatures and melting icebergs are indisputable evidence that the Earth is warming, but is this global heat wave a man-made crisis or just overblown hype?
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Science Is on Our Side
Do we know it's our fault?
Well, the overwhelming concensus of scientists say that the earth is getting warmer. It's obviously a crisis, and it seems pretty likely that humans are at the root of it, but I don't think that the scientific community is so unanimous on what's causing global warming, but rather just that it's happening and that it is quite menacing. It's irresponsible to ignore it, whether it is the fault of humanity or not.
- Professor Chris July 11, 2008 5:36PM
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earth has cooled in last 10 years
If the overwhelming consensus of scientists is that the earth in warming, then they haven't been reading the temperatures for the past 10 years. In any case, science is not made by consensus; it is made by research. Computer models do not constitute research. And to pick one item, carbon dioxide, out of all the multitude of factors that make up climate and claim that it alone determines everything else would be laughable if there were not so much political control and money at stake.
- Granny A
December 8, 2008 10:49PM
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Warming or Cooling
Either way--the Arctic's are melting, climate is changing, people and animals are suffering and worse. What do we do? Do nothing but argue over the cause or get off our rears and do something?
- Coo July 24, 2009 10:28PM
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IPCC says 95% chance we're causing it
Despite the inane attacks below on consensus, the fact is that the most recent IPCC report says there is a 95% or better chance that the warming that's been observed is caused.
See this summary of the report posted at wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change #IPCC_Fourth_Assessment_Report:_Climate_Change_2007
I agree, we need to do something about it. If people would stop just looking for semantic arguments and start looking at the solutions, they might realize that transitioning to clean energy economy would almost certainly create millions of domestic jobs, reduce costs for families and businesses, and reduce harmful pollution that causes disease and distress while also driving up health care costs,
- ReEnergize Texas
April 30, 2009 3:38PM
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Consensus?
I guess by now we all know what the "overwhelming consensus" was really about, huh? This is the problem with science turned religion . This same phenomena was whipping us around in the seventies when "global cooling" was the disaster of choice. The only difference between then and now is that the internet wasn't available for spreading baseless science, so enabling the crisis-minded lemming a forum for sharing their fear and loathing of the human race . If science truly mattered to you people we wouldn't be here right now arguing "junk science"! It's time to get a life. Put your energy into some real world problems, like people dying by the millions on the African continent, the terrible plight of women 's rights in the Middle East... real problems, not this made-up stuff! The polar bears are fine, really!
- vonstro
November 29, 2009 6:43AM
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