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Debate Score:64
Arguments:58
Total Votes:68
Ended:03/24/10
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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."

-George W. Bush  

So what do you think?

  • is it true? Please give a reason why
  • is it a joke? Please give a reason why

Joke

Side Score: 24
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Fact

Side Score: 40
Winning Side!
2 points

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.

Supporting Evidence: Global Cooling is the Real Deal (hubpages.com)
Side: joke
gcomeau(536) Disputed
1 point

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!

Yes. That's it. It all makes sense now.

Side: Fact
1 point

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

Side: Fact
thomasiscool(1) Disputed
1 point

Then where are the polar ice caps going? Punched a couple of holes in your logic there didn't I?

Side: Fact
1 point

well they are melting. because of global warming, it is causing ice caps to melt and cause sea levels to rise. Check this link for more detail

Supporting Evidence: Check this out (www.capmag.com)
Side: Fact
1 point

I think that global warming is a joke because why is it still cold here??

Side: joke
1 point

well maybe because its still winter XD There was snow still like last week but its still winter.

Supporting Evidence: When winter ends in 2010 (wiki.answers.com)
Side: Fact
1 point

there a possibilty that global warming is a joke. i just watched this video and i think you should see it.

Global warming scam?
Side: joke
cedcal1(17) Disputed
1 point

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.

Side: Fact
1 point

Dude, global warming is so BS!!!! The government has been making this all up to gain more money for themselves. Have you ever thought about that?

Side: joke
cedcal1(17) Disputed
1 point

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?

Side: Fact
Globalwisbs1(7) Disputed
1 point

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.

Side: joke
2 points

i totally agree its a fact i mean come on look at the ice caps!

Side: Fact
TERMINATOR(6780) Disputed
1 point

What about the ice caps? Give a complete statement.

Side: joke
1 point

well global warming is causing the earth to get warmer and causing ice caps to melt. This is causing sea levels to go up because of the extra water.

Supporting Evidence: Here (www.awitness.org)
Side: joke
0 points

Agree, the ice caps are melting and we should do something right away to prevent global warming is getting worse

Side: Fact
2 points

we need to keep on reducing the causes of global warming.

Side: Fact
1 point

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.

Side: Fact
1 point

Though we had a very cold winter, global warming can cause climate changes of both extremes........... THINK OF THE PENGUINS

Side: Fact
TERMINATOR(6780) Disputed
2 points

'THINK OF THE PENGUINS' is a faulty appeal to the emotions.

Side: joke
joscoh1(28) Disputed
1 point

Yeah, so is think of the hungry in Africa, or think of the children, are you complaining about that?

Side: Fact
1 point

So true. Penguins are also dying because of the green house effect. having the earth warmer and having Ice glaciers melt having animals drown.

Global warming
Side: Fact
TERMINATOR(6780) Disputed
1 point

Polar bears can swim more than 60 miles - get your facts straight!

Side: joke
1 point

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.

Side: Fact
1 point

its completely a fact. global warming is effecting the climate extremely! just look at the poor penguins and polar bears.

Side: Fact
TERMINATOR(6780) Disputed
2 points

There is nothing wrong with the polar bears - your argument is based on faulty information and an appeal to the emotions.

Side: joke
joscoh1(28) Disputed
1 point

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?

Side: Fact
1 point

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.

Side: Fact
1 point

it is a fact because of the icecaps are melting and animals are dying from that

Side: Fact
1 point

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.

Side: Fact
1 point

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.

Side: Fact
1 point

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.

Side: Fact
1 point

Well it is real becouse if many logical reasons first of all the noth pole is melting and the polar bears are dieing.

their have been high floods too

Side: Fact
0 points

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.

Side: Fact
Globalwisbs1(7) Disputed
1 point

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?

Side: joke
cedcal1(17) Disputed
1 point

Dude.... like i said. look at the other links on this debate page. They will show how much info there is that global warming is real.

Side: Fact