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Do you believe in global warming?

Yes. The leaf buds on the maple trees outside my window are opening ten days earlier than they did in l990. Discounting for inflation, our heating oil bills are 5% lower than they were ten years ago.

Jill, 59
Saylorsburg,
PA

Uh, I guess so. But I think we have more immediate problems to face, such as desertification.

Karen, 20
Marshelltown/Ames, IA

Yes, Virginia, there is a Global Warming. Pro's: better weather, less pain  for people with fibro and other weather-sensitive illnesses. Con's: skin cancer and global flooding.

Alias Irrelevante

Do I believe in global warming???? The question is raised in a strange way. My smart aleck response is, "no, I believe in God". Do I think there is evidence to support the theory of global warming? Yes, but I don't think the extremist projections that we'll be under water in  10 years and life as we know it will cease are without support.

Laura, 35
Lowell
, MA

What's not to believe?

Amy, 23
Baton Rouge,
LA

I live in Louisiana. It has been 432 degrees here since I moved in 1984. The only way it could get any hotter is if the earth fell into the sun,  and to protect myself, i cut myself with razors and jumped into a barrel of tabasco.

Anthony, 24
Baton Rouge,
LA

Yes, in the sense that the Earth goes through cycles of warming and cooling as a natural process. If our species has contributed to that process than it was only natural. If it leads to the death of our species, than that was a part of the natural process.

Cindy, 41
Lowell
, MA

We have expereinced milder and milder weather and more extreme weather in the last decade.  So some sort of warming is going on.  and it is global.  Now whether this is part of a decreasing ozone or natrual rhythm of the earth that is so large no single human generation would know of it I can't say.

Felicia, 34
Somerville, MA

Global Warming is not a myth but something real. The earth is heating itself and the atmosphere is trapping the heat inside. And it is true that the earth is gradually getting warmer my fractions of a degree. The concepts are easy but the rest of it is complicated to understand. However, global  warming is real and not a myth.

Meredith
Cambridge, MA

i really don't know. . . .I am not sufficiently concerned to even micro-obsess about it (yet). . . . .

mothmc, 35
Pensacola,
FL

Do I Beleive in Global Warming?

No, I believe in Irreparable Global Damage. Global Warming is too sincere.

Behold! Venus the goddess of Global Warming. 350 degree days with an atmosphere so thick the sun appears green, stretched and faint at the equator. Nothing grows with storms of methane, carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid. It's even too hot for water vapor to become rain.

As Mother Earth wobbles around the sun, the deserts expand and life runs extinct, 'Modern Man' focuses on the Technological and Monetary environments over the Ecological one. The depleting Ozone layers at the polar caps and accumulated carbon in the atmosphere, are only after effects of a greedy, short sighted, society. My prediction is that drinkable Water will be the first element man will have to replace before the Earth becomes sleepy with Carbon Dioxide.

Today is an age where the Virtual world over fascinates the Living world. Earth therefore becomes the paradox herself, the death of life.I want to personally apologize on behalf of 'Modern Man' for the entire mutated Earth of tomorrow. Damn Sorry!

Jami
Lowell, MA

I believe that we have to be careful with the emissions factories and cars emit, however, I do not believe global warming is as big a problem as the media may have us believe.

Kevin, 32
Sugar Hill,
GA

Yes, but not in the "hole in the ozone" theory. the hole in the ozone is natural because ozone is produced when sunlight contacts oxygen and there is less sunlight around the poles. (It's ironic that people think the hole in the ozone is caused by human developement when there is none in the south pole, where the hole is.) Global warming, on the other hand, is real.

Socrates One
Lowell, MA

Not really, long story...as a phenomonem, yes...but as something new that modern civilisation has created...no.

Helena, 31
Sydney AUSTRALIA

I didn't for awhile, but now that I'm hearing about all these icebergs melting and seeing the clear evidence for myself, I'm starting to get a little concerned.

Nicole
Elk Grove, CA

I don't know - there are too many conflicting reports to make a decision.

Janet, 42
E. Brunswick
, NJ

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