Is global warming a myth?
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Pankaj , Shimla: Feb 26 2008
Made Popular Feb 26 2008

global warming myth# One set of scientists claim it’s global warming and another believes it is not, then a third group of scientists say we might be heading towards global cooling.

# Every set of experts have impressive credentials and statistical data to support their claims, but, these contradictory statements fail to bring out the truth.

# It’s emerging more like a battle of the experts, who seem to make their own ends meet – political or otherwise.

# However, we are witness to riverbeds drying up and the icecaps melting and it’s hard to ignore how our planet is responding to human activity.

# The dilemma still continues whether global warming is a myth or earth’s way to respond to external stimuli. What do you say?

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Avadhut
Calicut, India
Whatever it is - be it warming or cooling - it is a fact that the nature is going to be punish human beings hard in coming days.
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Sweta
Gwalior, India
Avadhut said it correct, we humans have done a lot against nature and now nature would punish us. Global warming and global cooling, both are dangerous for the existence of earth.
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Jeanelle
Calgary, Canada
How can you insist that global warming is a myth? Aint you able to feel it by seeing decreasing level of rivers in mountainous areas?
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Desirae
Toronto, Canada
Of course there is an equal danger of global cooling. China has experienced its deadliest winter in a century. Canada, Siberia and Mongolia are facing the similar climate that can't be said as global warming.
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Matthew
Orlando, United States
What are you talking about??? Global warming is not a myth...it is real! The impact of Global warming is getting more and more evident day by day.
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Thinakaran
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
We are damaging our own planet, our home, our environment. The time is running out fast. It will be too late if we took much time in becoming 'selfless' because by that time the Arctic won't be more 'shelf less' then.
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David
Kansas City, United States
Global Cooling? Even Moscow has no snow this year when I had visited Russia.
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Kim
Los Angeles, United States
China and India are two of the world's biggest polluter countries. It's not just we Americans who need to change the lifestyle.
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Ashi
Perth, Australia
Global warming is not a myth. The Earth is getting hotter everyday because the Sun is burning more brightly than some 1,000 years ago.
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Chandni
Allahabad, India
Average global temperatures have gone up by about 0.2 deg Celsius in past 20 years. The years 1997, 1998 and 2002 were the hottest years since the year 1860 when the worldwide weather records were first collated.
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Keith
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Canada, Northern part of Russia and arctic area are the worst affected part of global cooling. China also felt it now.
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Jamie
Vancouver, Canada
Yes Global warming is just a myth. The last time when the sun had become inactive, the planet had suffered the little ice age and it ended in 1850 after about five centuries. This time it will go upto 10 centuries and destroy the species and crops across the world.
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Shehzad
Islamabad, Pakistan
Let the experts fight, just invest time in saving environment to protect the earth. Its everyone's duty.
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JR
New York City, United States
let us decide what is it Myth or Truth, then only we would start thinking how to protect the planet...
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Michael
Jakarta, Indonesia
NO THIS IS TRUTH AND GLOBAL WARMING IS ALSO A TRUTH. NOTHING IS MYTH IN THIS CASE.
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Global warming is a reality. It is the result of man’s abuse, misuse and overuse of the natural resources of the world.

Experts are simply guides who tell us the veracity of the damage. But before our very eyes, we see the products of environmental degradation and the scarcity of resources.

Anyone who says global warming is a myth is not a human being. Maybe, he belongs to the lowest kind of animals, where he is not endowed by rationality and intelligence.
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Dale
Pretoria, South Africa
Experts are there to fight with their concepts. people should start concentrating how to save planet from global warming.
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Stacey
Liverpool, United Kingdom
I do agree with what Maynard has written here. How can one deny that there is no global warming by advocating the concept of global cooling?
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Pang
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
For Canada it can be myth but for the rest of the world it is absolute truth.
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Nishi Roy
Bangalore, India
Global warming is a reality...look around you, if you see how our seasons have changed...places which did not have rainfall for years, are witnessing floods, summer is becoming unbearably hot...we would be fools to think that it is a myth.
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Hemant
Varanasi, India
What I get from the question is something different from what others are getting. I think the author is asking - Is global warming a myth and global cooling a reality? No one is putting question against global warming. People are discussing global warming more than global cooling but both are dangerous for us.
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Helen
Manchester, United Kingdom
I would prefer to repeat what Avadhut from India has written here and repeated by Sweta and Hemant. Excess warming and excess cooling both are dangerous.
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Ibrahim
Male, Maldives
Don't call it a myth. Countries are investing millions of dollars to restrict global warming. Come to Maldives, I will show you the impact of global warming in rising sea levels. We are living in dying islands.
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Aree
Jakarta, Indonesia
OK call it a myth coming generation would abuse you for ignoring such kind of threat to life.
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Jonty instablogs.com
New Delhi, India
I have personally believed and have said in so many such discussions there and other places that I don’t believe in the school of thought that says we are inducing climate change.

In fact, there had been long period of chill periodically called Ice Age. We are lucky to be in between the period where the earth is enjoying relative warmth.

Global temperatures are maintained by oceanic currents and oceanographers will say that ocean current patterns change with time. It has happened before and it will happen again. The polar caps will melt first submerging many coastal nations. This has perhaps begun already and we can see a noticeable rise in global temperatures. However, this is a sure shot sign that we are advancing towards Ice Age now.

It is natural.
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Feng
Shanghai, China
100 pc myth to plunder money and divert attention from real issues. but it is good. why? because it raises concerns abt pollutions and environment. so myth but good.
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Tracy
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Those who call it as myth are conspiring to kill the only habitable planet we have. :-(
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Brooke
San Diego, United States
Do they think we are fools? It is NOT a myth but real threat and we have the power to stop it if we act NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Shlomi
Chicago, United States
Al Gore is a showman. After losing to Bush, he took on this cause and won the Nobel Prize.
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Jomay
Manila, Philippines
Mynard:

i like your compassion for the cause. but scientific studies are inconclusive.
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Tommy
San Diego, United States
Give the earth a break to heal itself. Would you 'myth-busters'? This planet belongs to the future generations too................ keep that in mind!
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Lutful
Dhaka, Bangladesh
This is a rich countries problem. What can Bangladesh or Maldives or Sri Lanka do? They are waiting for doom.
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Glenn
Perth, Australia
Myth?? You mean earth is getting hotter by itself? Is it closing in to the sun? You must be kidding. Haven't you heard of Greenhouse Effect? Oh God! This is a dangerous debate to have. Will pollute the minds of people.
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Eugene
Moscow, Russia
Strong science evidence proof |= myth
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Salim
Vienna, Austria
explain the ice age then. it cooled down without any reason?
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Ismael
La, United States
First prove that GW is caused by greenhouse emissions. Then we can proceed from there. So far both theories are contested.
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Dimitri
Berlin, Germany
People who say this is a myth are US agents. US is the world's main culprit for global warming.
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Ebrahim
Al-Manamah, Bahrain
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