trend real?

NO....

Sure thing.

opposing opinions from the get go

i think so

Of course. Look at the icebergs melting. Pollution has caused this mess. Polar bears are endangered due to lack of food. Animals are coming down out of the woods and attacking people because they don't have their normal prey for food. The game don't have their normal fat to get them through the winter (the bears and all). The hurricane seasons are getting worse.

Somebody posted it was snowing in Arizona today, in May?? That is not normal. The weather patterns are out of whack. That will mess with the crops, etc.

Man is at the bottom of the food chain, and we may be the last to feel it, but we will.

The earth is believed to be 4.5 - 5 billion years old.. with humans first appearing in the past 200,000 years.. with a couple of hundred years of recorded history to work with.

4 of the past 5 hottest years (on record) happened in the past 8 years of the 21st century, and that means that we are changing/affecting the 5 billion year old planet ?

If I walk into a store 1 minute before closing time, and watch the activity in the store for that one full minute, and they don't sell anything, can I then conclude that the store is in trouble or might be going out of business? (not mine, pulled it off of a BB.)

Endangered, and extinct are things that are natural. We humans are pretty ignorant to stop it if you think about it. Look at the dinosaurs they became extinct, but only because we weren't there to mess that up.
Weather patterns are out of whack but this is what over 10 maybe 20 years. May I be reminded of the ice age. The world isn't going anywhere, we are.

One more note 4 of the 5 hottest years on record were in the 21st century.

So where's the cooling trend?

too many people are brainwashed by the media....
their hearts may have good intentions....but science proves otherwise.

i don't believe so...they say the ocean is rising but 1/8th of an inch every year...tell me HOW do you measure that? with shifting sand..tide, wind and any other number of factors. Ok, maybe the glaciers are melting...but it would only take one harsh winter to make them again...just my opinion though

What better to scare the everyone that tell them say we live on a dying planet?

Temps fall and the global cooling ball got rolling. Then the worst possible thing happened...it got warmer and the death of global cooling and the birth of global warming.

Once again something awful happened...temps start to moderate or even cool. Panic struck until someone uttered the wisest of words...climate change!! That way no matter what kind of natural cooling and heating cycle the panic can continue! Hooray!!!-- (not mine, pulled it off of a BB.)

we're getting closer to the sun ....get a sun tan lotion with good SPF...

I agree, how do you measure an 1/8 of an inch of ocean?

yup..things getting hotter..

cuz the ozone is melting away!!

are these the same geniuses that think a hole in the ozone is a bad thing ...perhaps its there to vent out all the crap we dump into our atmosphere...hmmm...a quandry i suppose perhaps not im not a genius im just a friggin blue box...now go away and leave me alone....

No, actually in the past 100 years there has been a 2 degree drop in temperature.

ok more pollutants are put off of one inactive volcano....yes inactive.....than all of man
second have your high school science teacher explain gases to you again.....
if it was warming like they say....we'd already be dead....
think about it.

global warming..now global cooling
ive got a head cold and ur confuusing me darlin!!