Global Warming

I think that global warming is not only real, but a real threat and concern for all of humanity. If things escalate in the direction in which they are heading- in a few years none of us will have to worry about what jeans to wear, our make up or anything: we will all be fried to a crisp... Whats your opinion?

Global warming is definitely real. All the science is conclusive, the CO2 levels are rising and so is the ambient temperature. The only people who disagree with it work for oil companies.

Global warming is real no one is over reacting, its a deadly phenomenon and we all should try to do our worth to avoide it

My suspicion is that there are two sides to this issue. One is the usual media hype that goes with anything odd happening in the world today: the so-called Millennium Bug, the supposed bird flu pandemic, SARS. The first was a real nothing; the second two, in spite of all the panic, have hardly affected many people at all. This is the typical Chicken Little approach to anything unusual happening in the world. "The sky is falling." The other side of the issue is that there are certainly things we need to concern ourselves with. Firstly, we will run out of oil in due course; we waste an enormous amount of petroleum by our overuse of plastics; we are polluting the atmosphere, and unfortunately the new 1st world nations, like China, are doing it at an alarming rate. We will have to find better ways to produce electricity; our current methods aren't going to work for much longer. These are just some of the real issues. However, mixed in with all this is the real possibility that the world is experiencing one of its regular climate changes - and we happen to be living in the middle of it. Locally there was a great deal of hype recently when icebergs started floating north along our shores, from the Antartic. Many people acted as though this was the first time this had happened for millennia. However, my mother remembered it happening in the thirties - and there was no global warming then.