Think you know about Global Warming? Take the test

[trust me]

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/GlobWarmTest/start.html

[chucky]

Got 6 out of 10..:(

[Bray]

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/GlobWarmTest/start.html

I got them all right, but I have studied "global warming" a lot. I am one of those people that have been brainwashed by the "idustry".

A couple semesters ago I took a Wildlife Conservation Class. Sounds good right, after all I am for conservation. I practice QDM and habitat management. I was hoping a biologist from the department would teach it (it was a night class). Come to find out it wasn't even close to being about true conservation. It was taught by a Vegan Hippie who blamed the "industry" for all of Earth problems. I studied global warming very hard and read peer reviewed articles and not the junk you see in grocery store magazine racks. There is so much more to global warming that the media doesn't tell.

For those looking for a good read Michael Crighton wrote a book called "State of Fear". He uses a fictional storyline to convey a lot of good information. Everything is cited with references. You learn a lot and stay on the edge of your seat.

[trust me]

I put a little more faith in these guys than I do in Al Gore or George Clooney.

This old earth has been warmed and cooled more times than Grandma's meatloaf, and to think we humans can change it is the epitome of arrogance.

I was taught about the earth's tilt and changes in the elliptical orbits in public school 30 years ago.

[killinmammals]

100% for me. But with a mainly geography major and possibly leaning towards climatology I should know a little bit about it:D

[pedigo]

8 out of 10. High school graduate and truck driver. Just proves common sense is all that is needed.

[killinmammals]

8 out of 10. High school graduate and truck driver. Just proves common sense is all that is needed.
No no...you are wrong...hasn't AL Gore proven to you yet that it takes an understanding of the enviroment and us common people couldn't understand;):rolleyes:

[corndogggy]

Personally, I do think the natural course of heating and cooling is in fact the major source of any fluctuations, but at the same time, I don't understand how we couldn't contribute a little. Some people say that we can't contribute hardly at all, and I just don't understand it.

In a year, the U.S. alone burns 146 billion gallons of gasoline. A single airline trip from New York to London burns something like 22,000 gallons of fuel. All around the world everybody else is also burning fuel, and also natural gas, coal, wood, and all kinds of stuff.

Regardless of the greenhouse effect... where is all that extra heat going? The law of the conservation of energy tells us that our energy isn't created or destroyed, it can only change forms. Therefore, that heat doesn't just disappear. Everybody who is a warming skeptic keeps saying that the earth cools itself, which sounds great, but is it really cooling, or is it just displacing the heat? How does that extra heat just disappear?

[trust me]

Everybody who is a warming skeptic keeps saying that the earth cools itself, which sounds great, but is it really cooling, or is it just displacing the heat? How does that extra heat just disappear?

Some radiant heat is undoubtedly dispersed through the atmosphere back into space. It isn't like gravity is going to pull it back.

[Jking]

got 9 out of 10, pretty cool post.

[longhollowhunter]

got 8 out of 10. common sense answers mostly. i personally doubt any information people give me regarding things that supposedly happened 10 or 20 thousand years ago, unless it's in the bible that is. we've only studied these things for a hundred years, and that's a small blip on the radar in the big picture.

[Marko]

I agree that we need to be skeptical of scientific findings based on one or a few measurements. However, I also believe that many of the people who debunk global warming do it so that they can continue to live selfishly on the Earth (present company excepted, of course!). We have to remember that we are stewards of the Earth, not owners. We ultimately have to answer to the owner for how we are treating His Earth, not the government, nor the scientists, or PETA, or the good old boys.

[Auk1124]

The guy behind that test is a supposed one-time engineer for the WV Dept. of Mines, not a scientist, has links to something called "Osama youmama," and also talks about how wonderful strip mining has been for the environment. Turned those WV hills into pure heaven on earth I guess.

I don't trust him any further than I can throw him, same as George Clooney and Gore on the subject. I don't know if global warming is real or not but there are far too many political hacks on both sides pretending to be experts on the subject. Until someone finds a way to de-politicize it I'll take ANYTHING from either side on the subject with a grain of salt.

[killinmammals]

Global warming is real. It has been happening since the beginning of time. I personally don't think we have as much of an effect on it as people think, although we do have somewhat of an effect. There is just no way to really compair it to the past to know the extent of our contribution.

Where most of us are living now, used to be a tropical environment under sea...and gators used to be in alaska. Its been proven

[KY_Fried]

All I know is I've been shoveling "global warming" all morning and it's still coming down full force.