I think it is true, but i don't care about it because it won't happen to me in my generation.

well, global warming is occuring. however, it is occuring very slowly. the average temperature rose about 2 degrees over the last CENTURY. that means it will not have severely high temperatures for many many years.

I think that the governments all over the world will not do a lot, we already have ethanol but ethano just made it worse because it takes more energy (gas and fuel) to make ethanol than it can create. We could try to do some expensive and drastic changes on how we use our resources and prevent global warming. we already have that ozone hole in anarctica and its slowly growing.

(This answer was written by ImAlec, who is so good at science answers he should have his own statue out in front of the Answerbag headquarters. Cloned here from another global warming discussion without permission, but I don't think he'll mind) -Stableboy ImAlec says: I have been asked to put in my $0.02 on this. There are actually three questions here: 1. Is global warming occurring? 2. Is it caused by man? 3. Does it matter? The answer to #1 is pretty solid - it is occurring. Even some of the skeptics are now agreeing that it is happening, and the evidence, as Stableboy has pointed out, is overwhelming. *All* the major scientific institutions accept it. And in answer to Mr.McClister, scientists are not so stupid as not to notice the towns growing; the measurements they use are taken at that sites that are still isolated. Or, more certainly, use indirect measurements like isotope ratios in coral and Antarctic ice. The fact of warming is beyond reasonable dispute. #2. Is it caused by man? People point out that the world has been both warmer and colder in the past. Maybe it is just the sun, or something to do with the earth's orbit, or a regular cycle, or something else. This is a comforting thought, because (a) there is nothing that we can do about it, so we don't need to worry and certainly don't need to change our habits, and (b) whatever the effect is, it may have stopped, so we can stop worrying about it going any further. The trouble here is that no-one has come up with a convincing case for any other theory. The case that warming is cause by CO2 emissions is not quite as strong as the case that it is occurring at all, but it is pretty good - and it is the only working theory in sight. If a policeman finds a body and a man standing beside with a smoking gun, he doesn't think that it might be someone else who had rushed out of the room - he arrests the man with the gun, and they can sort it out later in court. Burning fossil fuels are the smoking gun in this case - there is a very strong case to answer, and we need to act on it until something else is found and demonstrated to the same level of conviction as the greenhouse effect. #3. Does it matter. Hey - throw away your parka and buy a new pair of Ray Bans - summer is a-coming! Well, it doesn't work so easily. The problem is not so much the absolute temperature as the change in temperature. Give enough time, the Earth will stabilise in a new pattern - as, detractors point out, it has so many times before. True - but that time is measured in thousands if not tens of thousands of years. And during the change a *lot* of damage will be done. In the natural world, thousands of species will go extinct. Of course, in a few thousand years, their ecological niches will be occupied by new species - but there is a gap when the world ecosystems will look significantly more battered. And the effect will be worsened because of man's other effects on the environment. When forest is felled, the seeds left in the ground will be the wrong kind to grow in the new climate, so man's harm to the environment will be increased. And for the man-made word, lots of systems and structures designed for the world as it is now will malfunction in the new environment. Hurricane Katrina was an example of the sort of thing that will become more common. Of course, New Orleans was uniquely vulnerable, and Katrina may have occurred without warming (or may not), but weather systems will continue to attack the chinks in our armor ever more aggressively. And 200 million people may be made homeless when most of Bangladesh disappears under water. More subtly, the wheat growing belt of the US Mid West may move north, so that wheat can only be grown near the Canadian border or north of it. Farmers will have to change crops. For US farmers, this is handleable. OK, the wheat growing equipment becomes obsolete and they have to switch to other crops. This means that all their customers have switch as well - wheat bread may become a luxury. But we in the developed world can handle it. But in the poor world, without agricultural advisers and crop research institutes, their crops will fail and they will have no substitute. And they will start moving, because the alternative is death. If you take the outer space view, in ten thousand years it will all have settled down - and with 6 billion of is, there are already too many. The human species can lose a few hundred million without being at any risk. But if you take an earth based view, those ten thousand years are the ones we, or children, grandchildren etc. have to live through. And those few hundred million people, if not ourselves, are our fellow humans. Normal human decency demands that we take action.

I do believe that global warming is occurring. Scientists have a lot of proof that it is happening. As for whether or not man has anything to do with it, scientists are still not completely sure. CO2 emissions probably do contribute to global warming, but the extent to which they contribute is not fully known. I personally believe that CO2 emissions do feed global warming, but I believe that global warming is caused mostly by natural causes.

i think that it should be stopped, i don't like not having snow where we live. we used to have a lot, and now we maybe get 4 in. I also don't like the fact that animals are suffering in the polar region because of warming. polarbears don't have as much ice junks to rest on. some observers have spotted 4 dead polars because of exhaustion of swimming. that's a little sad. i hate global warming and i wish that it would be stopped before it's too late.

Total BS. We do not have the power to change mother nature.

I read a article in TIMES about the global warming. The world will be a lot worse in approx. 10 years

It'll mess us up, if HIV doesn't get us first.

The ice caps on Mars are melting, so if it is occurring, it has to do with a warming trend on the sun and a recorded increase in cosmic rays. But you don't hear anything about either, because neither one serves the higher-taxes, bigger-government, prior-censorship agenda of Al Gore, Michael Moore and their fellow Stalinists.

I have been following this subject and study it.I have experienced it dramically for I had lived near the acrtic for 30 years.The following statements are not opinions but are facts based on what scientests say and some of my personal experience.Scientests from around the world have been meeting in Paris.They have come out with thier results from 6 years of study.They say the climate changes in the last fifty years have been dramatic and the future climate changes don't look too good.The 2 degrees we hear of stands for a world average temperature change.Close to the arctic I have seen personally winter temperatures 15F+ warmer,and snow fall that was 2 feet now barely inches.I have see wild animals dying because of this.People more south will not see much temperature changes so it seams that everthing is fine.Scientests say that strorms like Katrina will be more common.Draught and floods will happen more often.We have seen changes already.I hope we pay attention and use less fossil fuels which are causing the problem.

IT IS THE END OF THE WORLD