Do any of the candidates comprehend Global Warming?

[Pooeypants]

Quote by: Technosoul The fact that the north and south pole ice caps are melting away must mean one of two things - that they are not melting because the earth temperature has no norms, or because the temperature is warming up. The idea that the fast rate at which the ice caps are melting away is just another one of nature's cycles is nonsense, in my opinon. The idea that we are loosing the ozone layer, and that the temperature of the water in the oceans is getting warmer, causing more powerful hurricanes and other strange climate changes, suddenly and in short order, is evidence that the early reports that fosil fuels would cause problems - were correct.

Steady on there lad, both the North and South Poles have a summer where the ice will normally melt (obviously more at the edges away from the Pole) and then be replaced during their respective winters. What is of concern is the change in net melting and ice/snow deposition. I'm not sure how you are linking the loss of Ozone directly to fossil fuel use either...

[Technosoul]

Quote by: Pooeypants Steady on there lad, both the North and South Poles have a summer where the ice will normally melt (obviously more at the edges away from the Pole) and then be replaced during their respective winters. What is of concern is the change in net melting and ice/snow deposition. I'm not sure how you are linking the loss of Ozone directly to fossil fuel use either...

The globe-sized alien

The connection is not based totally on real science.

The evidence suggests that that we have a "ozone hole" that is now larger then at anytime in earth's history and that it will get larger.

At the same time that this took place as an "effect" of something abnormal, the lower ozone near the surface of the earth has changed due mostly to fosil fuels, which is evident by the higher levels of smog and polution levels. Which levels (relatively) have increased since the 1920s towards a peak in the 1990s - (and beyond?).

The fact that both of those problems are happening at the same time would suggest that the abnormal adding of man-made polution can be linked to the fact that the ozone hole is abnormally large.