Is Global Warming a fact

[PCunicorn]

I am curious about this one. Is Global Warming a theory? I am pretty sure it is, most people I talk to say it is. And I don't mean "global warming", I am pretty sure it's been proven that the temperature rises every year (right?), but I mean, weather you belive it or now, technically is "Global Warming" a fact or theory?

 

[sandorski]

Both

 

[olds]

It's a fact but it's not caused by man.

 

[sandorski]

It's a fact but it's not caused by man.

Halfish right.

 

[Paul98]

I am curious about this one. Is Global Warming a theory? I am pretty sure it is, most people I talk to say it is. And I don't mean "global warming", I am pretty sure it's been proven that the temperature rises every year (right?), but I mean, weather you belive it or now, technically is "Global Warming" a fact or theory?

Temperature doesn't rise every year, as there are plenty of other factors that can change global temperature both man made and natural. But yes man made global warming is a fact, it is also a scientific theory.

 

[BeeBoop]

Global warming is a fact, the debate is on who or what is causing it. Is it being caused by man or is it the natural cycle of the earth?

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Global warming is a fact, in that we can measure average global temperatures and confidently say whether the number is going up or down. Anthropogenic global warming is a theory, and one that is still the measure of no small amount of debate.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Any scientific explanation regarding global warming, no matter how complete and supported by evidence it is, would always be a theory wouldn't it? Everyone believing that explanation wouldn't have any bearing on it's status as a theory either. What I don't understand is why that matters to anyone. A good theory is as believable as anything in life can be.

 

[MaxPayne63]

Most of it is just a shakedown. Watch what they do, not what they say.

 

[Dumac]

Gravity is a theory. I don't see you claiming that discredits it.

The idea that humans are causing global warming is as deniable of a theory as gravity is.

 

[mmntech]

Meanwhile in Antarctica...
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/cold-dis-comfort-antarctica-set-record-1358

 

[bradley]

It's fact. Leading global warming researcher, Dr. James Hanesen, predicted back in 1988 that by 2028 Manhattan's West Side Highway will be underwater. That's only in fifteen years from now!

In 2007, Al Gore predicted all arctic ice will be gone by 2014. That's less than a friggin' year away!

The only people not frightened are those not easily frightenable. They are part of the problem!

 

[highland145]

It's fact. Leading global warming researcher, Dr. James Hanesen, predicted back in 1988 that by 2028 Manhattan's West Side Highway will be underwater. That's only in fifteen years from now!

In 2007, Al Gore predicted all arctic ice will be gone by 2014. That's less than a friggin' year away!

The only people not frightened are those not easily frightenable. They are part of the problem!

I'm sure I can make some $$ off that info......:hmm:


DINOSAURS

 

[zinfamous]

Global warming is a fact, in that we can measure average global temperatures and confidently say whether the number is going up or down. Anthropogenic global warming is a theory, and one that is still the measure of no small amount of debate.

Well, Gravity is a theory. Evolution is a theory, so is Global Warming.

This means they are all part of this Universe and this Earth, and are very much true.

 

[highland145]

Well, Gravity is a theory. Evolution is a theory, so is Global Warming.

This means they are all part of this Universe and this Earth, and are very much true.

Whoa......


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[Elixer]

I hate to be the one to tell everyone, but we are all being sucked into the sun, and we only have a few million years to stop it!

 

[highland145]

I hate to be the one to tell everyone, but we are all being sucked into the sun, and we only have a few million years to stop it!

Divide that by faps, please.

 

[who?]

If it was untested it would be a hypothesis not a theory.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Meanwhile in Antarctica...
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/cold-dis-comfort-antarctica-set-record-1358

Meanwhile, in that article...

Just because one spot on Earth has set records for cold that has little to do with global warming because it is one spot in one place, said Waleed Abdalati, an ice scientist at the University of Colorado and NASA's former chief scientist.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I hate to be the one to tell everyone, but we are all being sucked into the sun, and we only have a few million years to stop it!

Too bad we mothballed the shuttle fleet. We could have sent Bruce Willis up there to blow up the sun.

 

[blankslate]

I though the sun was slowly expanding and would eventually consume the earth?

 

[Leros]

No, it's an opinion. We don't have the proper equipment to actually measure it. Anybody who says differently is a liar or a communist.

 

[NegativeBeef]

Global Warming and Global Cooling are both facts and have occurred thousands if not millions of times during the Earth's history.

 

[who?]

Say hypothesis not opinion.

 

[DrPizza]

No, it's an opinion. We don't have the proper equipment to actually measure it. Anybody who says differently is a liar or a communist.

Actually, satellites can measure the rate the Earth is absorbing energy from the sun, and the rate at which the Earth is radiating energy.