Poll: Global Warming?

[Eddi]

There has recently been an enormous heatwave where I live, which got me thinking...

Is there such a thing as global warming?

And if so, is it due to humans?

I don't know any of the facts and if I did I wouldn't know how to interpret them

Question: What should I believe, if I want to be right?

I have made a poll, but if you vote in it please explain how you voted!

And if you can, please cite an authoritative source or sources

 

[sayak83]

There has recently been an enormous heatwave where I live, which got me thinking...

Is there such a thing as global warming?

And if so, is it due to humans?

I don't know any of the facts and if I did I wouldn't know how to interpret them

Question: What should I believe, if I want to be right?

I have made a poll, but if you vote in it please explain how you voted!

And if you can, please cite an authoritative source or sources

Global warming is real and is happening due to human actions. Go to any IPCC website and you will find it full of scientific evidence for this fact.
AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis — IPCC

 

[Erebus]

Climate change is real and humans are the primary reason for it. While the climate can change naturally over time, the changes we've seen since the industrial revolution have been dramatic.

The NASA website has some fairly easy to digest information about it:

Evidence | Facts – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

I'll copy/paste the takeaways from the start of the article here for the sake of ease:

• While Earth’s climate has changed throughout its history, the current warming is happening at a rate not seen in the past 10,000 years.
  
  
• According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), "Since systematic scientific assessments began in the 1970s, the influence of human activity on the warming of the climate system has evolved from theory to established fact."1
  
  
• Scientific information taken from natural sources (such as ice cores, rocks, and tree rings) and from modern equipment (like satellites and instruments) all show the signs of a changing climate.
  
  
• From global temperature rise to melting ice sheets, the evidence of a warming planet abounds.

 

[ChristineM]

Yup it's real, Europe has just felt the effects, with more to come

There is considerable research available on the internet, there is also a great deal of fake bs so i suggest you do some research using reputable, unbiased scientific sources and not political denialism.

A couple of sources

10 myths about climate change

Evidence | Facts – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

 

[ChristineM]

Climate change is real and humans are the primary reason for it. While the climate can change naturally over time, the changes we've seen since the industrial revolution have been dramatic.

The NASA website has some fairly easy to digest information about it:

Evidence | Facts – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

I'll copy/paste the takeaways from the start of the article here for the sake of ease:

• While Earth’s climate has changed throughout its history, the current warming is happening at a rate not seen in the past 10,000 years.
  
  
• According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), "Since systematic scientific assessments began in the 1970s, the influence of human activity on the warming of the climate system has evolved from theory to established fact."1
  
  
• Scientific information taken from natural sources (such as ice cores, rocks, and tree rings) and from modern equipment (like satellites and instruments) all show the signs of a changing climate.
  
  
• From global temperature rise to melting ice sheets, the evidence of a warming planet abounds.

Oh look, we posted the same source. Are we sharing the same brain cell ;-)

 

[Secret Chief]

There has recently been an enormous heatwave where I live, which got me thinking...

Is there such a thing as global warming?

And if so, is it due to humans?

I don't know any of the facts and if I did I wouldn't know how to interpret them

Question: What should I believe, if I want to be right?

I have made a poll, but if you vote in it please explain how you voted!

And if you can, please cite an authoritative source or sources

Only denied by idiots (or those with an agenda such as a CEO of an oil company), but it'll kill us indiscriminately.

NASA:

"It’s important to remember that the focus of scientists is always on the evidence, not on opinions. Scientific evidence continues to show that human activities (primarily due to the human burning of fossil fuels) have warmed Earth’s surface and its ocean basins, which in turn have continued to impact Earth’s climate. This is based on the weight of over a century of scientific evidence forming the structural backbone of the science and technology underpinning much of our civilization today."

- Scientific Consensus | Facts – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

 

[sayak83]

There has recently been an enormous heatwave where I live, which got me thinking...

Is there such a thing as global warming?

And if so, is it due to humans?

I don't know any of the facts and if I did I wouldn't know how to interpret them

Question: What should I believe, if I want to be right?

I have made a poll, but if you vote in it please explain how you voted!

And if you can, please cite an authoritative source or sources

Here is a way to get past fake websites.
Search climate change in Google scholar.
Google Scholar

 

[Secret Chief]

Oh look, we posted the same source. Are we sharing the same brain cell ;-)

Three of us!

 

[Eddi]

Here is a way to get past fake websites.
Search climate change in Google scholar.
Google Scholar

Just had a look at it, I never knew that existed, thanks for sharing!

 

[Eddi]

Only denied by idiots, but it'll kill us indiscriminately.

That's what I thought

Obviously not too many idiots on RF as everyone seems to be unanimously in favour of it being a thing

I was hoping for more of a debate, not a consensus

 

[sayak83]

Just had a look at it, I never knew that existed, thanks for sharing!

I can also restart this thread.
The Science of Global Warming : Explained

I will be teaching a graduate level course on climate science and another graduate level course on renewable energy from August. So I can post a few snippets along the way.

 

[Secret Chief]

That's what I thought

Obviously not too many idiots on RF as everyone seems to be unanimously in favour of it being a thing

I was hoping for more of a debate, not a consensus

Cheer up, there's deniers here on RF, the usual suspects. There's always been climate change, it's just weather, Man doesn't have that level of influence (read that one just the other day), blah blah blah...

 

[Erebus]

Oh look, we posted the same source. Are we sharing the same brain cell ;-)

Three of us!

Did you guys google "Climate change evidence" too?


Honestly there's enough written about it that picking the first reliable source just saves time. It's also a good example of why climate change deniers must have it rough. You have to scroll past so many facts before you get to anything that supports your view.

 

[Secret Chief]

Did you guys google "Climate change evidence" too?


Honestly there's enough written about it that picking the first reliable source just saves time. It's also a good example of why climate change deniers must have it rough. You have to scroll past so many facts before you get to anything that supports your view.

Perhaps they go on the dark web? I just made that up.

 

[Nimos]

There has recently been an enormous heatwave where I live, which got me thinking...

Is there such a thing as global warming?

And if so, is it due to humans?

I don't know any of the facts and if I did I wouldn't know how to interpret them

Question: What should I believe, if I want to be right?

I have made a poll, but if you vote in it please explain how you voted!

And if you can, please cite an authoritative source or sources

Global warming is not something you purely measure locally, so you could have a heatwave even if global warming weren't the case.

It is based on a long range of observations from a lot of different fields of science, it is something that will "slowly" start to affect things on a gradual scale and could spiral out of control as one thing could lead to another.

If you just watch this one, and that is just one potential problem. Normally people talk about C02 when its global warming, methane is around 30 times better at trapping heat, so definitely not something we want to fill the atmosphere with.

 

[Erebus]

Perhaps they go on the dark web? I just made that up.

As a quick experiment, I just googled "climate change isn't happening" and "climate change hoax." I still got bombarded with facts!

Is it an algorithm thing? Would google bring up more climate change denial websites if my search history included more Alex Jones?

 

[Twilight Hue]

Biden's 'climate emergency' is pure politics at the expense of democracy

What's the new plan?

Martial law?

 

[Shaul]

OP used the term “global warming” while the better term would be anthropomorphic climate change. Yes, human activity can affect climate. The more prescient question would be to what extent human activity affects climate. That question is very debatable.

 

[Secret Chief]

As a quick experiment, I just googled "climate change isn't happening" and "climate change hoax." I still got bombarded with facts!

Is it an algorithm thing? Would google bring up more climate change denial websites if my search history included more Alex Jones?

Don't know who he is. Is he a tin foil hat type?

 

[pearl]

And if so, is it due to humans?

That's the question. There has been and probably will be natural climate change, but to what extent do humans have in controlling or slowing the inevitable. Science has shown us the affect we have had and how to at least slow it down.