An Inconvenient Truth, A movie on the topic of Global warming. Options

[Spartan]

I write this now to Inform You all that you should watch this movie..."An Inconvenient Truth".

This Movie Is all about Global warming effects on earth. The Prompter Is none other than Former American Presidential Candidate "Al Gore". He speaks about how The world is changing for the worse and how WE are contributing to the problem..He talks about Floods, Destruction of Rain forests, Melting of the Ice Caps, etc. He even goes on to talk about our car emissions and so forth. I urge you all to watch this movie Not only to inform yourselves of the problem but also to see what you can do to help reduce global warming.

Their is a survey in on a website "ClimateCrisis" which gives a rough estimate as to your current Contribution to the greenhouse effect. Mine a stunning 18.75...the average being 7.5..I was truly shocked by this movie and I hope that it will change your outlook on the subject as well. I urge that you go down the corner to your neighborhood blockbuster and Rent this movie. There were soo many shocking and disturbing Images and Graphs and Calculations from Leading scientists that it was simply and utterly shocking. I overuse the term when I use "shocking" but I mean it.

this movie is fascinatingly Interesting so if you have the time I recommend that you watch it.

[Bargod]

I don't know if there is "Global Warming" or not. All I know is that in my lifetime (at 35 years) I've seen it swing back and forth. I remember distinctly in 4th grade (you do the math) hearing about "Global Cooling". Oddly enough that was one of the "snowiest" winters I remember. I was living on the Jersey shore at the time. I remember walking out of school one day and seeing HUGE snowflakes. To this day I have not seen snowflakes that large ever again, (my brother in Jersey tells me the snowflakes were that large again this year).
Anyway, in college I took some science. I studied a bit about thermal dynamics of the oceans. The fact is, when the ocean (Atlantic) has more salinity (warmer) the storms are worse. When it is cooler (less salt in the water due to more fresh water off the polar ice caps) the storms are fewer.
So, if global warming meant the ice caps were melting than there would be more fresh water in the ocean making it less saline and hurricanes less frequent and weaker in strength. I'm not trying to prove anything. I'm just saying that not all arguments about global warming stand up to independent science, as far as I can tell. Here is a link to back that from National Geographic: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...rricanes_2.html

Also, after Katrina many people used recent hurricanes as evidence of global warming. Well, oceanographers pointed out that we are just in a cycle of bigger hurricanes. http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/s2540.htm
Oddly enough, the same evidence is used to "prove" that it is the result of global warming.

To me this argument reminds me of the argument over the Sphinx in Egypt. Geologists look at the Sphinx and say the erosion was caused by rain and floods which dates it at X number of years. Egytologists don't like that. Nobody tells them their business of Egyptology. The sphinx can't be as old as it is, because it doesn't fit their research. The erosion to the Sphinx was caused by wind and sand, not by rain and floods. What would Geologists know about Egyptology?

I'm not saying I know what is right. But I know the planet is huge and regulates itself and has been very hot and very cold. Man has been on it for a very short time. For us to say with any certainty what is up is silly. For us to say that greenhouse gasses don't cause problems is silly. We need to learn about these things and make changes. The sooner the better. But I can not bring myself entirely buy into the nightmare stories being told. Not as long as regular science doesn't back up government science.