Why do scientists support such nonsensical thing as Global Warming?

Question

I pesonally don't believe in Global Warming. Why is everyone believing the scientists? Aren't the scientists just in it to make money, with their big research so that they can fund politics that they themeselves like. It certainly is subjective don't you think? I think if everyone delves into the topic a little more I think they will see that Global Warming infact does NOT exist, and is just figments of the scientists imagination.

Answer 1

I'd be willing to bet the farm that you're ALSO one of those who doesn't believe in evolution either! It must be great to be so much smarter than those who have studied Global Warming for years! I believe it when science tells me about gravity, and about the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the toxins that are being spilled daily onto our land. Let's see, should I replace their years of study with your opinion?? I'm sorry, but you are truly an idiot!!

Answer 2

Scientists support the discovery of Global Warming because they have been studying it for about 40 years now and they know that it is real.

Do you have any reason for not believing in Global Warming?

People believe the scientists because they offer objective evidence to support their claims, which people can look at and decide for themselves if the claim is true or not. Most people who have bothered to look at the evidence are convinced.

Scientists are not doing science for the money. Science really does not pay all that well and it takes allot of schooling and is very hard work. People that want to make a lot of money become stockbrokers, investment bankers, jobs like that. Scientists choose their line of work because they are very interested in learning new things.

Science is not subjective at all. The conclusions scientists publish are theories that are designed to explain all the evidence they find when they study something. Global Warming was discovered by a scientist studying CO2 levels in the atmosphere. After recording the levels for several years he noticed that it was increasing every year. He knew that CO2 was a greenhouse gas and so wondered if temperatures might be going up too. He looked and found out that they were. This work was done back in the 1960's. Scientists have been studying this for about 40 years now and have learned that Global Warming is happening, that it is caused primarily by CO2 levels rising, and that CO2 levels are rising because humans are burning fossil fuels.

As a matter of fact most people who delve into the subject come away convinced that Global Warming is a very real issue that is extremely important and that demands immediate action to minimize the impact on human life over the next several hundred years.

Edit - I have added this to address a later answer from a naysayer making false claims about the greenhouse effect.

This is the way greenhouses and planets trap heat.

It is true that greenhouses and planets trap energy in different ways. However both are warm because they trap the light energy of the sun. That is why the term is used, it is not intended to imply that greenhouses work exactly the same way planets work.

In both the case of a planet and a greenhouse there is an energy flow balance established. The sunlight entering the greenhouse or the planet's atmosphere is trapped by either the glass - primarily reducing convective loss in the case of a greenhouse, or entirely by the gasses in the atmosphere reducing radiative loss in the case of a planet.

As both the greenhouse and the planet start to heat up the both start loosing heat back to their surroundings using their respective heat loss mechanisms. At some point each becomes hot enough that the heat lost exactly balances the amount of heat the sun is supplying. At that point the temperature stabilizes.

If you were to mess with the energy loss of either the greenhouse by say adding a second layer of glazing, or with the planet by adding more greenhouse gases in the form of extra CO2, then the energy flow balance would be altered. In this example these changes would reduce the heat loss of both the greenhouse and the planet and so they would now be receiving more energy than they are loosing and again would start heating up. Again at some point as they get hotter and the energy loss increases, they would reach a new balance point where the energy flows would again be equal. This would be at a higher temperature than before.

That is what the Greenhouse effect is and why Global Warming is occurring.

Answer 3

The research scientists depend upon the politicians to give them money for their salary, grad students, universities cut, computers, supplies. I know for a fact that one of the top climate modelers said in the early 90s that he could argue for either global warming or new ice age with same model. The money is in the global warming because the politicians want it to be an issue, so they can show they care.

At the National Weather Service's River Forecast Center in Chanhassen Minnesota, a good scientist was put on unpaid leave in the early 90s under the Clinton/Gore administation. He had done some research which showed that global warming was not occuring. The administartion didn't like it and went after him.

It should be public record, so you can find out if he was put on unpaid leave or not. The NWS encourages its employees to do research as part of their job. The only reason the individual was attacked is that it didnt agree with the administrations viewpoint.

Gore is a liar. There is not a consensus on global warming being caused by man. The people who believe there is a consensus are lemmings. I believe that global warming is occuring, but it is caused by long term natural cycles. The influence of a single volcano is so far beyond what man does in a year, it isn't even funny.

So when asked why do scientists support it. The scientists are probably split on the issue. The money to be had for supporting any research is in the global warming realm. The media just doesn't like to mention the desenters.

Answer 4

according to the US governments website on global warming:

"According to the National Academy of Sciences, the Earth's surface temperature has risen by about 1 degree Fahrenheit in the past century, with accelerated warming during the past two decades. There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities. Human activities have altered the chemical composition of the atmosphere through the buildup of greenhouse gases – primarily carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. The heat-trapping property of these gases is undisputed although uncertainties exist about exactly how earth’s climate responds to them. ..."

" Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have increased nearly 30%, methane concentrations have more than doubled, and nitrous oxide concentrations have risen by about 15%. These increases have enhanced the heat-trapping capability of the earth’s atmosphere. ..."

Go and read what the politicians pay scientists to produce, even while they confuse you with double speak. Bush's administration never denies the effects of global warming are real, he does state that it would destroy our economy to reverse the damage being done in any expedient manner.

Everyone has an opinion, I personally believe that by not doing something yesterday (last year, decade, etc...) we've backed ourselves into a figurative debt ridden corner with no creditor to turn to now that we have to pay the bill. I suppose we could simply kill off the ignorant segment of the population so that the informed people could live, but I, for one, don't want to live alone.

:P

Answer 5

In reading State of Fear by Micheal Chriton, my view of the world changed immediately. In his book, he describes that environmental organizations around the world are using Global Warming and other fake disasters to make money and for the government to create a "State of Fear" which is actually a powerful drive in creating a competitive economy and advancing human technology.

While many people think about Global Warming as a device that is destroying the earth and everything in it, they also contribute to real efforts- like recycling and conserving Fossil fuels. So while Global Warming might in fact be a fake scare, it is creating an air of concern to help human civilization advance in productive ways. Cars are becoming more fuel efficient and more consumer products are becoming recycable.

Now as you view the positive effects of a 'fake scare' realize the bad side:
As we continue to believe in pseudosciences such as 'climatology' which simply analyses data an manipulates it to fit lies and corrupt beliefs, more scientists will become fake... reporting data in a way that is untrue, only to keep making money. This way of life can destroy the way the human race depends on data from scientists all over the world and the way the human race advances.

So in summary-
Global warming is a 'fake scare' that, in the short run, has benificial results. But the human race must change after this transistion to realize that "True science" must evolve so that only true and un-biased data is published. And that the public needs to get off the bandwagon and stop believing everything they read in "Popular Science" (which is an entertaining read, but a fraud to genuine science)

Please, I suggest everyone who reads this to read "State of Fear", a novel by Michael Chriton. With citations from REAL scientists and a developing story that represents the dangers pseudosciences pose to humanity, this book is a genuinely good read.

Answer 6

ROFL besides your instinct, do you have ANY evidence that Global Warming does not exist?
I cannot believe that you think that these scientists, 99+% of whom say Global Warming is happening, are in it for the money. The money is in the hands of Big Business who have a vested interest in denying Global warming as they would have to change their business practices.

Answer 7

You're being silly. Why do you call global warming nonsense, and why are you so cynical about scientists? For over a century we have been pumping huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Are you foolish enough to believe that there are no consequenses for this?

Answer 8

The scientists make far less money than the oil & auto industries. And they provide their reasons for thinking what they do, that is what their papers are for. Sure people should delve into it a little more. I sure hope they either disagree with you, or can explain how an inceasing amount of carbon dioxide will not trap an increasing amount of heat.

Answer 9

ok do you remember your childhood? now think was your summers as hot as they are now or maybe were they cooler?well they do not support the polititions it would actually be the other way around. the politics need their support. but for a fact global warming is true just look at the weather. BOTTOM line the believe in it cause there are facts supporting it!

Answer 10

Is there anyone out there who is not so lazy they can pick up a reference book or encyclopedia and use a calculator to check out these facts? Even the proponents of the Greenhouse Effect Theory admit that it doesn’t work like a greenhouse. It’s a term they coined because it conjures up a vision of a planet with a blanket around it.
Greenhouses don’t work because there are heat absorbing gasses in them. They work by preventing convection. As the sun heats the ground, the ground heats the immediate air which rises pulling in cooler surrounding air. A greenhouse is an enclosure with walls of glass or plastic which allows the solar energy to heat the ground but does not allow the warm air to rise away from the area. By getting the general populous to accept the terms “Greenhouse gasses” and “Greenhouse effect” the supporters of this have a leg up in this debate, but they’re wrong. The “Greenhouse theory” proponents count on you believing that CO2 and methane, the so-called “greenhouse gasses”, account for a significant proportion of our atmosphere, at least enough to affect the temperature. CO2 accounts for only .03768% of our atmosphere. (methane .00017%). The total earth’s atmosphere is .00008644% of the mass of the earth which puts CO2 at .00000003% of the mass of the earth. CO2 does not reflect energy. It is a gas. It does absorb some energy. It has to follow the same physical properties as anything else, it is directly proportional to it’s mass. The proportion of CO2 to the earth is 1 lb. to over 3 BILLION lbs. One ounce would be proportional to 206.5 MILLION lbs. An aircraft carrier weighs 194 million lbs. So no matter how much radiant energy you think CO2 could absorb, the mass of CO2 compared to the earth would be the equivalent of placing a heated BB on an aircraft carrier. And let’s not forget that the CO2 is not resting directly on the surface of the earth, the transfer of heat mostly goes to the rest of the atmosphere first, which radiates out to space.
Now let’s address the other unspoken aspect, the interior of the earth. The earth is almost 8,000 miles in diameter. The atmosphere, although without a rigid end, stops at about 51 miles above the surface. The crust of the earth is only 7 – 190 miles deep. See: http://mediatheek.thinkquest.nl/~ll125/en/mantle.htm That leaves 7,900 miles in diameter to multiply out for volume of molten lava and earth’s core ranging from 2520 degrees to over 6000 degrees. This is molten lava is coming into direct contact with our crust as compared to .03768% of gas in our atmosphere. The amount of CO2 and methane that exist in our atmosphere is so miniscule compared to the mass of there earth and the enormous heat under the crust that it is ridiculous to suggest these gasses have anything to do with the change of the temperature of the earth. The earth is always going to fluctuate in temperature, it always has. When it gets warmer more of the earth can sustain micro organisms. More micro organisms will produce more CO2. We are probably in a period of warming, leading to more CO2. There is not enough CO2 on earth to realistically affect the earth’s temperature, even if we double it. Throw two BBs on an aircraft carrier and see if you can measure a temperature change.
Anyone who supports the “Greenhouse effect” without some sort of research is intellectually lazy and naïve. The people who coined the term “Greenhouse effect” were clever in that it creates an image in people’s mind of an earth that is enveloped in a big bag of gas and that by doubling the CO2 we were sealing a ziplock baggie around it.
For those who know the facts, the “Greenhouse effect” is a lie. Reducing pollution in the air is a good idea for other reasons; people breathing it would be high up there. To tell people we are raising the temperature of the earth by our activities is just intellectually dishonest.
Open a book, use a calculator.

Answer 11

you think that it doesnt exist huh!
you may be right on thier monetary aspect, but i think as someone said, ignorance is really expensive than education and from what u just said, it is very fatal.
My friend, no matter what i scientist may have wrongly done to you, never ever think that Global warning doesnt exist, its there right in your face and u continue doing the things u shouldnt do and see what would happen to u. you and your house and neighbourhood would end up 12 miles under the oceans and eating salt.