ACCER wrote:Hart,
Part of what irritates many of us is when people such as yourself make the false claim that there is almost total agreement within the scientific community that global warming is man made. There isn't. It isn't even close. Most scientists believe that the climate is changing as per the natural cycles of this planet.
In fact it was released about a month ago that we are heading into a rapid cooling period.
So which is it? Global warming or global cooling?
I don't know it is global warming or global cooling. I live in a tropical place, and it's always hot here and I am used to the weather. But since about a month ago it's much hotter here so that even the natives like us feel inconvenient with it. Maybe neither warming nor cooling is global now. It's better to call it climate change, the term to use now.
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...but according to the National Academy of Sciences, "the phrase 'climate change' is growing in preferred use to 'global warming' because it helps convey that there are [other] changes in addition to rising temperatures."
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Climate change, yes it's part of natural cycle but human activities also contribute something to the change.
The Earth's climate has changed many times during the planet's history, with events ranging from ice ages to long periods of warmth. Historically, natural factors such as volcanic eruptions, changes in the Earth's orbit, and the amount of energy released from the Sun have affected the Earth's climate. Beginning late in the 18th century, human activities associated with the Industrial Revolution have also changed the composition of the atmosphere and therefore very likely are influencing the Earth's climate.
I think the concept behind the global warming...., well, climate change campaign is to minimize human contribution.
Apart from that, encouraging each other to be greener, stop polluting environment and more efficiently use energy harms nobody, right?
source:
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange
Fri Mar 27, 2009 5:51 am 
