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Is Global Warming A Joke Or Fact?
So what do you think about global warming?
"All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating stores are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, its here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster."
-Barack Obama
"The whole (global warming) thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability."
-Jerry Falwell
"some of the scientists, I believe, haven't they been changing their opinion a little bit on global warming? There's a lot of difffering opinions and before we react i think its best to have the full accounting, full understanding of whats taking place."
global warming is a joke. Government just created it to try to scare us, when really I believe we will be or are going through an global cooling. take it for example that if you were to look up an global cooling site, you would be surprised to see the most recent articles on how we are indeed living through an temperature decline rather than the temp heating up. Dont let people trick you into believing that its global warming when actually its global cooling.
Yes, obviously the government jjust created it to scare us. Because... ummm, because... .well... ummm... because they.... uhh....
Because they've all bought stock in "Planetary Air Conditioners Inc."! And they've offered all the scientists in the world a cut of the profits when they go public in ten years and make a fortune!
hey, theres no reason to be mean and sarcastic. But its true. Animals are dying because of global warming. Ice caps are melting, causing flooding and causing animals to drown because they have to swim longer distances
I don't believe that this video is appropriate to determine if Global Warming is a joke or fact. Yes, the man speaking may have a reputation but he had no facts to back himself up. Global Warming has been going on for thousands of years, humans are speeding up the process. The press may be hiding things, but its much easier to say its fake than to say its real and give facts to convince millions. Unfortunately the press may be taking advantage of the problem, but it doesn't mean its fake.
well I have thought about it but why would the government do that to us? i mean we need a strong economy to create a strong country. Plus if they were making all this up, how would they get all this info/data?
Dude, I cant believe that you believe them. They would make up all the data and make it seem as if global warming is real. This is all for the green stuff.
well many people may be doing this for the money but a lot of them are concerned about what will happen to the earth. And again, is there any proof where the government is making all this up? The EPA gives us so much info on there website. Check it out.
well this site is the hoax. I mean anyone could had written that letter. I still say that its real. I mean there is too much info saying its real than its not. Just check out the other links that i got on this debate form.
wow..... I mean if the government told you that the sky was falling would you believe it? NO!!! And if you did, I bet they would give you BS info like it fell in Canada or something.
Actually no polar bear has been demonstrably tied to drowning from swimming too far, the drowned polar bear evidence is tied to a single event where relatively large numbers of bears in open water were being tracked and appear to have been drowned when a storm swept through the region they were swimming in. Polar bears are well known to regularly swim fifteen miles or more with upper limits for swimming estimated well beyond that with some bears documented to have swum nearly one hundred miles.
Well are you saying they would name every polar bear and start to complain about how a polar bear they named died because they died from swimming too far? What about kids who are dying from starvation? They will find the names of the kids and post it on the news? no. so this is just like the polar bears and penguins. Just because the government has not reported how many animals have died dose not mean its true.
Agreed, people should start to use less electricity and start car pooling to use less fossil fuel, or just drive less and find ways to use less of those two.
well at least your staying consistent, but if people didnt appeal to each other's emotions, especially in advertisement, how would anyone sell their products, or gain money for charity?
hmmm... thats interesting to know, but if you think about it, the red cross, one of the world's largest charities, helps a lot of people around the world, even if they rip us off and take seventy percent, which is probably used to pay the people who work there and get supplies, ect... you can't say their all that bad. after all, they do help, it just might not seem like that if they use seventy percent for whatever, but it's there
Both penguins and polar bears are drowning regardless of how far they can swim, and yes both can swim far and wide, the point is that as the polar ice caps melt faster than usual, polar bears have to survive on less food because they have to spend all of their time traveling back and forth between the mainland and the ice caps to get food. Penguins aren't as effected by the climate change as much as polar bears, its the fact that we are overfishing the seas that is really harming them.
your saying that the fact that polar bears have to swim farther and longer each year to get food in the arctic and then get back to the mainland isn't true? polar bears are drowning because the northern ice cap melts faster and takes longer to reform each year. How can you say that there is nothing wrong with that?
so, your saying that it's normal for polar bears to drown and starve, its a commonly known fact that the ice caps are melting each year and that it is taking longer for them to refreeze, scientists have done extensive research to learn that.
well there are reports from scientists saying how because of the melting of ice caps is causing rising of sea level. check out this site. it goes more into detail.
But they are melting. look at the chart of this website made by the US EPA of a ice cap they were and other country's were recording on how thick the ice were. And as you see, the thickness is decreasing because its melting. Now if you say that ice caps are not melting, please give me proof/a resource that will explain that they are not.
well lets see....... US government website vs. a news website....... who is more supported? The government website is. They also worked with other countrys on this. And what about the website u got it from? Who, how long and is there any proof from them saying/ showing that ice caps are not melting? All there saying is that they are not. But the thing is do hey have proof.
The fact is that scientists are disputing what is really effecting the Earth, is it global warming? is it global cooling, or is it just global climate change. The question isn't what is happening, the question is what are we going to do about it. humans are the cause of so many problems on this planet, we are the reason why the Earth's weather patterns are changing, why the polar bears drown, and why the penguins are starving. We humans are also the reason why i cant see most of the stars from my house. I think its time people accepted that something is happening and that we will have to face it one way or another eventually.
Agree. There is enough evidence saying that global warming is happening. Something should be dune right away to prevent from global warming to get worse. I think that scientists that do not believe in global warming are just getting payed to say this stuff and brainwash a lot of people that do not believe in global warming.
Hold on, so are u saying that scientists believe in it or they dont? because they would need proof that global warming is going on. Scientist cant just say that its going on without proof. so that last part of your statement would be partly false and can just say that they helped out with the research and just do it for the money. but your first part of your statement is true. it is happening and we should do something before its to late.
By the term "global warming" I'm going to go ahead and assume you mean the warming of the planet overall. If my assumptions are right that indeed is fact.
Well Global Warming has been going on for thousands of years. Humans are the reason why its sped up so quickly. Killing people wont do anything, That would be just an easy way for genocide of a race or country ect. Like on a previous comment I have posted, why not spend the money to create Green Jobs. Its a win-win situation, more jobs for the American people (or whoever is capable of the technology needed) and a cleaner, healthier Earth. If the Earth reverses itself, and we go into another Ice Age, that can reverse the Human development to at least a few hundred years, our farms would die, and the world would loose allot of money. The best thing we humans can do, is to create Green Jobs, and cut down on the things that damage the earth, once we get that done, only Mother Nature can decide our fate.
Wow, i cant believe that you fell for that. This is so that the government can make more money for themselves. I mean there is no proof that we are speeding it up. If this started a long time ago and humans were speeding it up, dont you think that we would already be dead because of so much time spent harming the planet?