What's the best way to verbally smack down the morons who babble about their imaginary "global warming"?

Question

By which I mean the toad-licking, tree-hugging, Earth-worshipping idiots who think Man's sundry activities hold a candle to the overwhelming effects of that huge fireball in the sky known as "the Sun".

Answer 1

I'm with you 100%. Everything I read and learn about the issue has an undeniable Leftist propoganda overtone and it's really buggin me,

I was watching TV with my brother-in-law and he believes that "everybody knows..." that the big oil companies are in league with Dick Cheny to destroy the environment!

It's crazy, so you need to arm yourself with some facts and some well thought out positions. I rely on Mark Alexander at Patriot Post. See link below and while you are there sign up for his free email newsletter. You will like his style.

Answer 2

Here's a bad answer:

"you are an uninformed silly person,living in the shelter of you cities ,go about the world and see some reality. i have seen the damage done by intense farming ,in Africa and in Mexico,..."

talk about uninformed... how we farm has NOTHING TO DO with global warming! This is the kind of eco-babble that prove the point of the questioner.

1. Earth is 4 billion years old. It's not going anywhere for the next 4 billion years no matter what we do. Anyone decending to talk about 'threats to the earth' and su
2. We spew 6 billion tons of CO2 in the air each year. Yes, its a lot. But 9 out of 10 of those eco-extremists wont admit that *natural* CO2 production amounts to over ten times that amount, so even our CO2 production is dwarfed by the natural world's.
3. The issue then is how many humans we have and our quality of life. Want a higher quality of life for humanity? Make sure all of humanity has political freedom (democracy), economic freedom (capitalism), etc.The biggest cause of poverty and misery in the world today is socialism.

The first answer was the right answer. In many cases, environmentalism is just a mask the socialists are wearing to get at 'the man' and to get Govt running economies like socialists want to. Yet the real solution is *MORE* capitalism. So when the tree-hugging types start talking about the need to get back to nature, shut down industries and put a tax on everything, calmly point out that the solution will be via technology, and you can not have advancing technology without economic freedom, ie, capitalistic economies.

Did you know for example, that our energy efficiencies have nearly doubled on the basis of $ GDP per barrel of oil equivalent input since the 1960s? That is progress, and we can make more progress within our current economic system.

Want to get the global warming problem solved?
Capitalism and nuclear power. Free economies and 400 nuclear power plants will solve the problem, and the economies will be better off to boot.

Answer 3

Well yes, the Sun is the primary culprit in warming the Earth. It's about how much of an effect the build up of Greenhouse gases like Carbon Dioxide and water vapor have on trapping that heat. That's what the global warming debate is about. It's a natural process to keep the planet from freezing over. When there's too much, then the heat doesn't escape as well and warms the planet further. It's what was happening in the Mesozoic.

Now the real debate is the impact humans have introduced on the natural process of greenhouse gas production. Increased CO2 is a good thing in it actually promotes and fosters plant growth. Most people don't look that forests are growing a bit faster than normal because of that. Now I'm inclined to say it's all natural, but it's shown that burning fossil fuels has undesirable effects like acid rain and smog. That's enough reason to cut back for me.

Answer 4

It's just like another responder said earlier. If you put enough people in a room, the room gets hot.
It only takes common sense to understand that since the earth doesn't have a way to "vent" it's self, it's only a matter of time before a growing population, world wide, and the use of natural resources to the point where they don't exist anymore wreak havoc on the planet. Are their some idiots out there that think "oil" is gonna last forever???? Or maybe that the air we breath doesn't come from trees that we constantly cut down in all parts of the world???
How bout' we try this the easy way: Anyone noticed how the more we expand outward, not unlike a virus, (say, in a neighborhood by building homes) that we take the homes of animals as small as ants or as big as bears and either kill them or displace them. Then we sit around and complain about, "why are those bears so close to my home" or "the raccoons were never bothersome like this before before?"
Geese! Stop and think about it for a second. I know for some of you that's gonna hurt your heads and you'll have to put your bottle of "Bush Beer" down and pause your TiVo reruns of Seinfeld or Desperate Housewives, but try it!
Ahhh, thinking! It's not just for the intelligent anymore!!!!!

Answer 5

An increase in C02 produces more plant life. Plant life makes 02. C02 ratio to 02 falls, back to square 1 right? Not to mention we know the earths climate naturally shifts. We only have measurements of C02 concentrations in the atmosphere compared with the earths average temperature for like the last 110 years. Pretty insignificant when you look at the whole picture over the last 500,000,000 years.

Answer 6

Let's see...we had a warm cycle in the 1950's, then a cool cycle in the 1970's. Another warm cycle now, so I'm guessing these panic-stricken, media-sucking whiners won't shut up until the next cool cycle starts around maybe 2015? Boy, these babies born today are gonna' think their parents are a bunch of idiots when they have to wear their sweaters on those cool July nights.

Answer 7

read a book, get a clue, these things are real. have you never seen the discovery channel? its a proven fact. just because you and your suv driving friends want to guzzle the earths natural resources doesnt meen that the other billions of people on the earth should suffer. I agree that some people go over the top, but you would think that you people would get th idea that there is a problem. come on, get a clue!

Answer 8

Leave them alone. Smacking down has never been effective.

In ten years there will be more data, more models, more trends that didn't match. In ten more, global warming will become unfashionable (or a giant meteor will strike the earth and we will all laugh that we though an SUV was hurting things).

Answer 9

I don't know how to smack them down or even if I really want to. Because to be completly honest, I'm not sure we are not some how responsible for this freaky weather. I mean, what if we are: is it right to take it upon ourselves to destroy the planet? Would that not like make us demons or something totaly evil ? I am no angel, but like I don't sleep with the devil either.

Also, is it not those same "morons" who caution us about our polluted waters. Hey you got to admit, I would drink out of some of those rivers if you paid me.

Is it not those same "morons" who caution us about our polluted air. And you know some of that stuff can be cut with a knife, I'm just glad I don't have to breath it. I hear some of them kids who do can't breath worth crap; asma you know.

Is it not those same "morons" who told us about the Ozone hole. I didn't even know what ozone was. Then I here about people in New Zeland getting cancer and stuff. I know they are not family but you know.

Is it not those same "morons" that told us smoking can kill us, while the rest of us told them to stick it in their ear. Then we come to find out, that some of that stuff is laced with some of the worst toxic junk imaginable.

Is it just possible that a 10% increase in green house gas could put us out of wack. I mean, you put 10% increase on anything and it might turn ugly. Unless it is a 10% increase in my pay; Bring it on.

You know, I'm begining to think them "morons" are not realy "morons" at all. Maybe their is something to that thing called school after all. It seems to me. Maybe instead of just looking up facts to counter their information, It would be wiser to try to really understand the problem. I mean, I am no Einstein, but I think if I really appleid myself I could understand it. Hell I am no moron either.

Cumon are you with me? We can do it. Yeaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Answer 10

How many people are on the planet? When there are a lot of people in a room it gets hotter in the room due to the combined body heat; if the population continues to grow there is no helping that it is getting warmer in here.