Your opinion on Global Warming? Is it a real threat or just a hoax?

My science honors class is doing a project where we have to study articles on global warming and write a review and an opinion on it.

I'm not entirely sure of my opinion of it, but I think that global warming is a problem, but it won't be as noticeable for a long time.

Of course, my opinion is that of an uneducated 14 year old, and I'm sure everyone of OT has a different opinion, and thats why I made this topic.

What is YOUR opinion on global warming? Is it a threat to our generation, the next generation, is it even a threat? Is it real, or some hoax made up to make us keep the air clean and all of that?

Just don't shoot people for their opinions :P

Of course global warming is real. Are we causing it? I doubt that. Either way, we still need to get off fossil fuels and improve the environment; if it cools the planet down in the process then that'll be an added bonus.

I'm 14 as well. :P

I think it is in the same league as the current recession in the economy--dangerous, but only temporary.

But I still think we should stop polluting the earth and being filthy slobs.

"The suggestion that humans are responsible for at least a significant component of climate change comes from several lines of evidence. Theoretical considerations suggest that discharging carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere will cause atmospheric warming, as can be directly observed above all cities in the developed world where energy use involves burning fossil fuels. Measurements of carbon dioxide and methane preseved in ice cores from Antarctica and Kallaallit Nunaat (Greenland) indicate that the concentrations have been relatively stable over the past 10000 years. However, since 1800, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the ice and the atmosphere has increased by about 30% and the concentration of methane has doubled.

Proxy data, historical records, and numerical temperature and precipitation observations allow comparison between what has happened under the purely natural circumstances that undoubtedly existed prior to 1800 AD, and what has happened since then. The most striking difference is not in the type of climate changes, or the areas of occurrence, or the consequences to organisms: it is the speed at which the changes are occuring. Changes that required hundreds , thousands, or tens of thousands of years in the natural and geological records are now seen within the span of decades. The rates of climate change are increasing, along with increased human production of carbon dioxide and methane. The acceleration of the rate of change began in the early 1800s, just as human consumption of fossil fuels increased. Ongoing climate changes directly above cities are proportional to the amount of energy consumed by each, with differences evident due to city size, lifestyle, and economic wealth. Taken all together, the acceleration of climate change cannot be explained solely by natural causes: human activity is the only factor that has changed substantially in Earth's climate system since 1800."

- Geography 1050: Introduction to the Principles & Practice of Geography. Memorial University of Newfoundland Department of Geography. 2008-2009 version.

(My geography textbook from last semester)

I doubt it's a hoax.

I think either its quite real and we don't care...or it is just, in fact, a cycle of our climate and we will eventually cool down...and then heat up.....and then cool down.....fatjack04

It's real. The threat has been exaggerated but I DO believe that people have suffered because of it.Hungry_bunny

[QUOTE="fatjack04"]I think either its quite real and we don't care...or it is just, in fact, a cycle of our climate and we will eventually cool down...and then heat up.....and then cool down.....matthayter700

[QUOTE="matthayter700"][QUOTE="fatjack04"]I think either its quite real and we don't care...or it is just, in fact, a cycle of our climate and we will eventually cool down...and then heat up.....and then cool down.....fatjack04

it's real and its not the humans causing it its the sun DBScott11

Global warming is a hoax designed and propagated by hippies to reduce the number of Hummers and SUVs.entropyecho

We broke the Earth.

Take from that what you will.

[QUOTE="DBScott11"]it's real and its not the humans causing it its the sun matthayter700

So a high school geography textbook=100% correct?

[QUOTE="fatjack04"][QUOTE="matthayter700"] See the geography textbook excerpt I just quoted; it explains the difference between the influence of natural cycles on their own and the influence of human activity on top of that.matthayter700

The Earth has warmed, but humans aren't to blame. It's also not even close to being a gigantic crisis like all the alarmists want you to believe. This Global Warming "Crisis" fiasco will soon pass just like the Global Cooling fiasco of the 70's did. trix5817

[QUOTE="matthayter700"][QUOTE="DBScott11"]it's real and its not the humans causing it its the sun trix5817

So a high school geography textbook=100% correct?

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It's real. The threat has been exaggerated but I DO believe that people have suffered because of it.Hungry_bunny

[QUOTE="matthayter700"][QUOTE="DBScott11"]it's real and its not the humans causing it its the sun trix5817

So a high school geography textbook=100% correct?

"MY" opinion or anyone elses opinion doesn't matter because we're not scientist, let them figure it out...Trelaf_TheWise

[QUOTE="Hungry_bunny"]It's real. The threat has been exaggerated but I DO believe that people have suffered because of it.MindFreeze

No it is not real. It's weather, and weather changes. When it's hotter than usual, GLOBAL WARMING! When it's cooler than usual, GLOBAL WARMING. The term is actually now called, "Climate Change." How quaint...LikeHaterade

No it is not real. It's weather, and weather changes. When it's hotter than usual, GLOBAL WARMING! When it's cooler than usual, GLOBAL WARMING. The term is actually now called, "Climate Change." How quaint...LikeHaterade

[QUOTE="LikeHaterade"]No it is not real. It's weather, and weather changes. When it's hotter than usual, GLOBAL WARMING! When it's cooler than usual, GLOBAL WARMING. The term is actually now called, "Climate Change." How quaint...matthayter700

[QUOTE="LikeHaterade"]No it is not real. It's weather, and weather changes. When it's hotter than usual, GLOBAL WARMING! When it's cooler than usual, GLOBAL WARMING. The term is actually now called, "Climate Change." How quaint...-Sun_Tzu-

[QUOTE="-Sun_Tzu-"][QUOTE="LikeHaterade"]No it is not real. It's weather, and weather changes. When it's hotter than usual, GLOBAL WARMING! When it's cooler than usual, GLOBAL WARMING. The term is actually now called, "Climate Change." How quaint...LikeHaterade

Of course global warming is real. Are we causing it? I doubt that. Either way, we still need to get off fossil fuels and improve the environment; if it cools the planet down in the process then that'll be an added bonus.

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[QUOTE="matthayter700"][QUOTE="LikeHaterade"]No it is not real. It's weather, and weather changes. When it's hotter than usual, GLOBAL WARMING! When it's cooler than usual, GLOBAL WARMING. The term is actually now called, "Climate Change." How quaint...LikeHaterade

Of course global warming is real. Are we causing it? I doubt that. Either way, we still need to get off fossil fuels and improve the environment; if it cools the planet down in the process then that'll be an added bonus.

[QUOTE="LikeHaterade"][QUOTE="matthayter700"] Did it ever occur to you that it's called "Climate Change" because these changes cause cooling in some areas, such as those next to cold ocean currents that are strengthened by arctic ice melting? (ie. the Labrador current) Or did you just take the idiotic route and jump to conclusions?matthayter700