As an avid gardener I have noticed changes in my own space. Some plants survive over the winter that never would 20 years ago. When there are fires ravaging the west coast we eventually get downpours on the east coast. Definitely a cause and effect happening. SES http://www.metalcyberspace.com

climate change is happening..if we believe or not…the real question is…what are we prepared to do about it…and what will we require our governments to do about it… what will happen if we do nothing? If the ‘believers’ are wrong and we become a world of conservationists ..what will be the negative outcome? If we do nothing…what will be the outcome? I don’t think I want to take that chance…I plan to do all I can & urge strongly everyone does at least whatever they can to inform themselves of the science not just theories.

Global warming??? Puh-lease. Al Gore just loves to hear himself talk. Do i believe we are — as someone else prior said — experiencing climate changes? yes. however, i believe that this is a cyclical occurrence since the dawn of time. do i think we need to be more considerate of Mother Earth? you betcha. but i’m not getting my panties in a wad over “global warming” and the Chicken Little’s who are proliferating the story.

I believe in global warming and I also believe that we are will see the end of things as we know them soon.

It doesn’t take a Princeton trained scientist to know that there is a BIG difference in the world today…some of us have been on the planet for a while now, and can certainly tell the changes….YES!!!!!

Princeton Schmensten, Harvard Snarvard. Just because you have a fancy rich education does not mean you did not graduate without still being an idiot that you were before you graduated.( I.E. Graduated top of the class versus the bottom of the class! ) This male scientist is in denial which ain’t just a river in Egypt. My Degree in Environmental Studies was not from a rich University however just an average one. Greenhouse gases, thinning of the ozone layer, skin cancer rate spikes, these are just some of our modern human made realities that we live with ervery day now. I remember our Canadian summers were hot at 90 degrees and humid. Now the humidity chokes the breath out of you and you can only stick a few minutes outside without getting lightheaded and relentless days upon days of 100 and 110 degrees and power outtages and warnings over not to use the air conditioners too much, yet without the AC you could not live for long in your house without serious headaches and heat sickness. The weather has indeed changed. Everytime we put a rocket up in the air it eats up more ozone ect. Liz I beg to differ on the nukes thing. Read my thesis on Chernobyl and then we’ll discuss the success (NOT) of the French nukes program. They have had more near melt downs and runaway fission accidents than the US had had. Nuclear energy does not help with the greenhouse effect/global warming problem. You can’t ever get rid of the pollution caused by spent reactor fuel for the next 10,000+ years. What a fine legacy to leave future generations. The radioactive emissions from daily operations taint our air, water and soil as it uploads into the ecosystem. I should know, I come from Canada whose proud CANDU reactors is a world export and we are a very pro nuke country. France is the biggest nuke pusher in the world. It ain’t all its cracked up to be Liz. Please read the Greenpeace reports on the state of European and Russian RMBK reactors to learn about why nukes should never be an alternative energy option for any country’s future on earth. I agree with Lily that we all need to learn, educate and research these issues much, much more to keep fully informed of what is going on daily in our small global village that we call earth.

This Just In: Major Antarctica Ice Shelf about to collapse. Disbelievers yawn and open a Fresca. http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080325/sc_livescience/vastantarcti…

Do I believe in global warming? hummm. Does it really matter? Shouldn’t we feel a responsibility to take care of this planet that God put under our care? We take care of our houses, our cars, our “things”, but not our planet? Shame on us. Will we wait until it is too late and then cry and point fingers? Yeah, that sounds like us.

I most certainly believe that global warming is a fact and like some others have mentioned I’ve seen evidence of it’s effects in my own area. I live in Virgina so while we’ve never had bitter winters such as in New England or the upper midwest, we definitely have had four distinct season up until about the last 5 years. Now the only thing we can be sure of is scorching heat and drought from June to September. For about the last 3 I’ve had spring blooming irises bloom in November. I’ve had petunias that wintered over. I had robins in my yard in February this year. I have blue birds staying all year round in the house in the backyard. There are species of birds here that nobody I know has ever seen here before. I got a bird book and it seems that this area is on the borderline of the natural territories of a couple of the ones I’ve identified. One other that I think I’ve identified shouldn’t be here at all but there’s no other bird in the book that looks like it. Frogs and snakes aren’t behaving the way they’ve always been known to around here either. There is something happening and I think the atrocities human beings have committed on this planet play a huge role in it.

An argument that makes whether you believe, or disbelieve, in Global warming mute: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDsIFspVzfI

A degree from Princeton does not necessarily a brilliant scientist make.

It’s not a religion and I’m not a scientist, but any time we take a good look and act on our best natures, the planet thrives.