I know i am rather fresh in here but this is a topic i have a very strong interest in. Feel free to bash in at any moment.

Global Warming, is an old term, its "climate change" now, because in some areas it will get warmer and in some it will get colder. The change is a very bad one. We will have more droughts and more floods. More harsh winters with record minus temperatures and blizzards and also more over the top heat summers that will melt the glue thats holding in the windows of your black SUV.

If you do not believe that humanity is responsible, then you have to look simply at one fact: Carbon in the atmosphere. This was also something nicely demonstrated in the inconvienent truth. Lots of carbon equals climate change. Again something you cant dismiss. Yes, the planet has had its fair share of movments in the carbon levels. But in the past 650'000 years, or about 325 times as long as christianity exists, these levels have never risen above a certain level. Now we are here, and lo and behold the levels rise to record heights and just keep climbing.

Now i hope nobody makes an ass out of themselves and denying the existance of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere or its rather grave impact on the climate in a very global way. So with that off the table, anyone want to tell me, that this increase is not from us human beings? If not, where else does it come from?

If some of the bigger ice formations come lose around the planet, there could be increases in water levels within months, in the range of multiple meters.

And if we just continue to pump out CO2 as we do now, the concentration will reach a very neat mass in 2100. At that point, there will be no ice left on both poles and for that matter most areas in the world. Water levels might rise up to a hundred meter. Again, thats one hundred meters. Forget the ice shelfs coming of and making a big splash with 10 meters, thats 100 meters. three quarters of the worlds population and almost all of the very fertile land we are currently using for farming is gone with that. And thats in only 93 years.

It wont happen overnight, it will take a long while, but it will get worse and worse.

Buy solar panels, use compact flouressencnt light bulbs, get a more fule efficient car. If you simply value your money, do those things, you save a TON of cash right there. One CFL bulb saves me around 50 bucks in power alone, not even talking about how cheap they are now and that i dont have to replace them every few months. My two solar panels i got off ebay, the electronics for it as well, all dirt cheap. I paid 300 bucks for all together, my power ill went from over 100 bucks (becuase of all my computers) down to 30. I am thinking about getting another cpuple batteries and another panel and push that even further down.

I wouldnt tell anyone to go and live in a cave, throw out their car or anythig like that. But at least make some intelligent choices that are easy, save you money and help the environment in one single package. Everybody wins.