Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-twentieth century, and its projected continuation.

The average global air temperature near the Earth's surface increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the hundred years ending in 2005.^[1] The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes "most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-twentieth century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic (man-made) greenhouse gas concentrations"^[1] via the greenhouse effect. Natural phenomena such as solar variation combined with volcanoes probably had a small warming effect from pre-industrial times to 1950 and a small cooling effect from 1950 onward.^[2][3]

These basic conclusions have been endorsed by at least thirty scientific societies and academies of science,^[4] including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries.^[5][6][7] While individual scientists have voiced disagreement with some findings of the IPCC,^[8] the overwhelming majority of scientists working on climate change agree with the IPCC's main conclusions.^[9][10]

Climate model projections summarized by the IPCC indicate that average global surface temperature will likely rise a further 1.1 to 6.4 °C (2.0 to 11.5 °F) during the twenty-first century.^[1] The range of values results from the use of differing scenarios of future greenhouse gas emissions as well as models with differing climate sensitivity. Although most studies focus on the period up to 2100, warming and sea level rise are expected to continue for more than a thousand years even if greenhouse gas levels are stabilized. The delay in reaching equilibrium is a result of the large heat capacity of the oceans.^[1]

Increasing global temperature will cause sea level to rise, and is expected to increase the intensity of extreme weather events and to change the amount and pattern of precipitation. Other effects of global warming include changes in agricultural yields, trade routes, glacier retreat, species extinctions and increases in the ranges of disease vectors.

Remaining scientific uncertainties include the amount of warming expected in the future, and how warming and related changes will vary from region to region around the globe. Most national governments have signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but there is ongoing political and public debate worldwide regarding what, if any, action should be taken to reduce or reverse future warming or to adapt to its expected consequences.

this is from wikipedias article on Global Warming. 

ok... and YOUR point is...? The models they use for predicting this "Day after tomorrow" Scenario... are they based on the same type of program that can't predict how many hurricanes there are going to be in a year? The last few years (since Katrina) there have been FAR fewer than they predicted. The models are all bogus. Computers cannot take account for everything in a system as complex as Nature, simply because we cannot account for everything ourselves.

A variety of issues are often raised in relation to global warming. One is ocean acidification. Increased atmospheric CO2 increases the amount of CO2 dissolved in the oceans.[116] CO2 dissolved in the ocean reacts with water to form carbonic acid, resulting in acidification. Ocean surface pH is estimated to have decreased from 8.25 near the beginning of the industrial era to 8.14 by 2004,[117] and is projected to decrease by a further 0.14 to 0.5 units by 2100 as the ocean absorbs more CO2.[1][118] Since organisms and ecosystems are adapted to a narrow range of pH, this raises extinction concerns, directly driven by increased atmospheric CO2, that could disrupt food webs and impact human societies that depend on marine ecosystem services.[119]

Global dimming, the gradual reduction in the amount of global direct irradiance at the Earth's surface, may have partially mitigated global warming in the late twentieth century. From 1960 to 1990 human-caused aerosols likely precipitated this effect. Scientists have stated with 66–90% confidence that the effects of human-caused aerosols, along with volcanic activity, have offset some of the global warming, and that greenhouse gases would have resulted in more warming than observed if not for these dimming agents.[1]

Ozone depletion, the steady decline in the total amount of ozone in Earth's stratosphere, is frequently cited in relation to global warming. Although there are areas of linkage, the relationship between the two is not strong.

Anyone else find it hilarious that ps360ftw keeps posting wiki pages when sqrl posts pages linked to the new york times?

Yes that is rather funny. Wikipedia can be accurate, but it is not the test of accuracy that other places are.

 Wikipedia is a world renound encyclopedia, used by many people as a source, the new york times is a local paper in new york in america, i think we know whcih is more reliable.

Just a local paper? Then explain why it's distributed internationally.

Its american, which makes it biased, its also media owned, which makes it biased, wikipedia is a website encyclopedi and is not biased. therefore Wikipedia is better than the new york times by a long way, and ive never seen anyone or heard anyone in my country talk about or reading the new york times.

Anyone can change any page on wikipedia, if I wanted to I could go to all those web pages you posted and put a big picture of someone's middle finger on it.

edit: In fact I would use this picture from the wiki page about the middle finger

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/The_gesture02.jpg

You're European, so your outlook is biased...sad but true, it clearly is from your post!

If you've never read the paper, and judging by your writing, that alone would make it an impossibility, don't make claims that are by far ridiculous.