Don't believe me? Click on this link:
 http://www.google.com/search?q=31%2C000+scientists+global+warming&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3RNFA_enUS257US257

It was very recent, and all this talk about the "green channel" and your "carbon footprint" and "An Inconvenient Truth." now all seems like a big sham. Do you believe global warming is caused by humans? What do you think of this startling turn?

I believe global warming was caused by an increase in the Earth's temperature :downs:.

I believe you're right, that is why it is more reasonable to say we are coming 'out of an' ice age than about to go into one.

I think the general thing about Global Warming ISN'T literally warming, but global climate change (which might be what this statistic is based from). 

I.E.  The northern area's might get abnormally warm weather, while some southern area's and desert-climates might receive abnormally cold/snowy weather.

Some area's might get abnoramlly lots of rain annually while other area's would dry up like a desert.

I honestly think the whole global warming thing is simply based off annual global temperatures on average, and not some kind of actual detailed report on different climate zones, which scews the perception and results of the data abit.  The good ol' "average temperature of the earth" to me seems like a strange statistic to quote considering every area and climate zone of Earth is completely different, and in several areas actually, it was reported record cool temperatures.

If all this is true, then what happens wouldn't really be global warming, but would have the climate meeting more "extremes" in temps instead of a middle ground (in otherwords climates might more often be in the two different extremes of hot and cold on average instead of being mild). 

Let me tell you though, here in Ohio, I've hardly had any hot weather this summer and it's in july.  It's almost like a REALLY late spring, as we've been getting lots of rain and cooler temperatures.  I don't think it's gotten 85F+ at all this summer yet here (which is very unusual).  Then again that doesn't say much except that we have had a cold summer so far.

That's a good point Beowulf, but the question is, was an Inconvenient truth based on such data? And is it possible to be more accurate than that?

So you're saying Al wasn't telling the truth when he blamed SARS and bird flu on global warming? NO! LIAR!!!

lol click the link its not a statistic its just a count. And global warming is a BS propaganda front for socialism. If these people actually cared about the earth they would be talking about the mercury and led that coal burning produces and not the C02. I think its funny that people are dieing rite now from pollutants but these enviro-mentalists would rather talk about how it might kill us a few hundred years from now. GE whos the parent company of NBC sponsored a Green Week for the networks. GE has hundreds of hazardous clean up sites all over the USA that  they refuse to deal with. Some of these sites have destroyed entire cities. Were wasting money trying to make cars in the USA cleaner when our cars account for about 2% of Co2 produced. So were spending and people are making billions of dollars based on a percent of a percent of a percent of an issue that has no hard evidence backing it up. Brilliant. If you want to stop Co2 then do something about the deforestation in South America. That whats actually causing it.

Its called the Green movement because green is the color of money, not because of the environment.

lol.