Debate: Is global warming an issue?
Side: Yes

NASA seems to be your only source. Although NASA has done some pretty incredible things, they're not always right.NASA is NOT my only source. As I said a few times, ANY credible scientific source agrees with NASA. Like the NOAA: http://www.climate.gov and here's what Stanford University has to say: http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-earth/glob-warm.html. If you get your information from scientists, they will support that global warming is anthropogenic because it's true. So, with that being said, science is not a secret global liberal conspiracy. You do not know more about science than the world's top scientists. -Former NASA scientist Dr. Roy Spencer is quoted saying that the climate models used by government agencies "have failed miserably."-James Hansen of NASA predicted that the West Side Highway in New York would be under water by now due to global warming.Now let's move on to other predictions gone wrong, shall we?-In the documentary called An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore predicted that all of the Arctic ice would be gone by 2013.Need more?-The co-founder of The Weather Channel, John Coleman, was in an interview about a week ago admitting that global warming is a huge myth. He said that it was "bad-bad science."-31,000 scientists signed a petition saying that global warming is not caused by humans.-As I said before, ClimateGate is a huge scientific scandal basically exposing that "credible" scientists have lied about global warming. Emails that were leaked showing conversations between scientists at the Hadley Climatic Research Unit at Britain's University of East Anglia show that they were talking about doubt or SCIENTIFIC WEAKNESS in the global warming theory. They were even planning to evade legal requests for their data, which violated the Freedom of Information Act stated in the United States Constitution.I'd like to see your sources for these. I'll bet they aren't credible and unbiased scientific scholarly sources.The ice caps are increasing and I do have the sources to prove it:http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2014/05/15/someone-tell-record-polar-ice-cap-it-should-be-meltinghttp://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/09/23/antarctic-sea-ice-hit-35-year-record-high-saturday/http://www.newsmax.com/SciTech/north-pole-ice-cap/2014/08/31/id/591899/ Your sources are dubious. Newsmax and the "heartland foundation" are both political propaganda sources, not scholarly scientific source. Even your mostly reasonable source supports that arctic sea ice is declining (and all the other facts that support anthropogenic global warming), which means your argument hinges on local anecdotal weather patters in the antarctic, which does not disprove any of the data that supports anthropogenic climate change. You are not a scientist, you're a science denier. The greenhouse effect would work if the Earth was somehow surrounded by glass or something similar to trap the heat. Heat can get into the atmosphere just as well as it can escape.This proves that you do not understand basic fundamentals about science. The fact that you stated this as if it were a fact, proves that you believe it. Okay, so, planets have atmospheres because of the gravity generated by the mass of the object. The gases stay close to the planet because of the gravity. That's why the OXYGEN that is in our atmosphere, or the NITROGEN in our atmosphere doesn't just go out into space. THATS HOW WE CAN BREATHE! The oxygen doesn't stick to the planet because there's a glass bubble around the earth containing the gases from our atmosphere. So, CO2, a gas, ALSO functions like every other gas in our atmosphere. Do you really not understand how the atmosphere works?Back to Venus: Vensus doesn't have a glass bubble around it either, yet, the CO2 stays in its atmosphere. Weird! It's because glass bubbles aren't what hold atmosphere to planets, gravity does! If you're going to make claims about science, at least understand the fundamentals of it.CO2 DOES NOT TRAP HEAT. Look at the facts. Look at the percentages in the atmosphere and then look at the specific heat. Any logical person would realize that CO2 does not trap any significant amount of heat.Yes it does. Every single scientist in the world knows that. You'r the only one denying it. Venus is HOTTER THAN MERCURY (which is much closer to the sun) because CO2 traps heat! If that wasn't true, I wouldn't believe it, and every scientist in the world wouldn't believe it. The only people denying that scientific fact are people like you who don't like it because it doesn't fit the political narrative that you cling to. Are we talking about science or politics? The two are mutually exclusive. The fact that CO2 comes out of cars and factories doesn't mean anything to me. I just proved to you that CO2 is not harmful to the environment and it is food for the trees to make more oxygen for us to breathe.You haven't proven anything. You've made a claim that runs counter to science.The temperature of the Earth has NOT changed in 17 years. I don't know how else to explain this to you.Well, you could start by explaining why the world's brightest scientists disagree with you, and continue by explaining why the global temperature is generally rising. During the 1960s, the heating slowed too, but it continued to rise, as it is continuing to do. I don't know how else to explain to you. Maybe you should just accept that you don't understand science. You should go take some science classes at a community college so that you understand it. I'm not trying to be a jerk, I just think you could benefit from learning about science. http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/08/21/the-new-york-times-global-warming-hysteria-ignores-17-years-of-flat-global-temperatures/ http://www.climatedepot.com/2014/05/04/global-temperature-update-no-global-warming-at-all-for-17-years-9-months/ Neither of these are scholarly unbiased scientific sources. I'm using NASA, NOAA, Stanford University, and IPCC, and you're using newsman, the heritage foundation, and "climatedepot.com." Have you noticed that my sources are scholarly scientific sources and yours are politically charged and aimed at denying science? As for the greenhouse effect, there are recently some scientists that say CO2 isn't even a greenhouse gas. Besides that, it contains so little heat that even with "increasing CO2 levels," it would not have any effect on Earth ant its atmosphere, especially the temperature.What scientists? NASA? NOAA? IPCC? Or Newsmax?Sadly, you've decided to look past the basic fundamental facts of science. I'm not the one who thinks glass bubbles are how atmospheres are held to planets. Put together the pieces yourself.I have. I used to be an uneducated "conservative" that denied science like you. After seeing the facts, and who was telling me the facts (scientists), I realized I was wrong. You'd much rather have the "scientists over at NASA" tell you what to think.At least I'm getting my science from actual scientists and not Newsmax.Do the researchI already have. The facts support that science is right on this one. I did a complete 180 because of the facts. You should get an education and stop letting politicians tell you about science.  Break it down and you'll realize that even the "brilliant scientists at NASA" are not always rightCorrect, and as reputable scientists, they change their views with facts. Science denial is using a lot of ignorance and anecdotes to attempt to "debunk" science. If you still don't see that humans are not the cause of global warming, I don't think there is anyone who can get past your wall of ignorance.You're awfully arrogant to think you know more about science than the world's top scientists, then call people who accept science and have more education than you, "ignorant." Not even if the scientists at NASA told you that you were wrongIf NASA, or the other 99% of the world's scientists said, "we're wrong," I would believe them. I am wise enough to know that I do not know more about science than the world's top scientists. I also don't pretend to know more about electricity than electricians. You might try deferring to people who know more about things than you do, or at least getting an education so you can at least understand the basics. And to say that I'm more politically driven than interested in how science works is extremely ignorant.Not really. You're not using scientific sources, and you do not understand basics about science. You're using political propaganda sites like Newsmax to get your "science." You should try actually understanding the science and getting your science from scientists. I'm looking at the facts and putting it together instead of someone telling me what is true with no actual facts behind it.Then you should actually do the research into science, and learn something basic about how atmospheres work. Hint: atmospheres aren't held to planets by glass balls that go around the planet.Here's the thing: The theory behind anthropogenic global warming is accepted by almost every single educated, formally trained, brilliant scientist on the planet. Almost magically, the only people who are denying science are "conservatives," and oil companies. If it was pseudoscience, then almost every scientist on the planet wouldn't so vehemently support it. So, if you think nearly every scientist in the world is part of a global conspiracy to...do whatever you think they're trying to do, then I can't help you. It's literally you (who does not understand science) and a few politically driven science denial websites (like Newsmax) versus the scientific community of the world. You are on the wrong side of science.