Global Warming doesn't exist. Anyone agree with me?

Question

Okay, so I feel like I'm the only person in the world who doesn't believe in Global Warming. Personally, I think people who believe in that **** are extremely gullible.

Yeah, I know 'pollution' doesn't help. However, most of this crap that you hear about Global Warming is propoganda that comes from smug scientists. Holes in the Ozone Layer? How do you know they weren't there in the first place? It was only in the last century or so that we invented the technology to view the Earth, so they could've been there in all Earth's history. And after all, these 'holes' are by the North and South Poles. There are magnetic feilds. Chances are, any other feild would be weakened around it, hence these 'holes'.

As for the ice caps melting --

The ice caps have been melting since the very first Ice Age. The overall climate of the Earth varies among the eras. Sometimes it raises, sometimes it lowers, all over hundreds/thousands/millions of years. It's in cycles.

Answer 1

Dear Froggz,

Unfortunately you are not alone. I have to say that since I started following Yahoo Answers I have been flabbergasted at how many people hold opinions similar to yours.

I would like you to indulge me in a thought experiment. I will suppose for the sake of argument that you are correct and that global warming does not exist. Let us further assume that most of the world fell for it and decided to try to prevent it by taking a number of actions, which I will list below:

1) Increase auto mileage to an average of 300 mpg by mandating plug-in hybrids.

2) Convert all transportation over to bio-fuels like ethanol and bio-diesel. By pass the peak oil problem.

3) Create a new farm and refinery industry to make ethanol.

4) Stop paying money to the Middle East for oil. Disrupt terrorist financing.

5) Eliminate pollution emissions from power generation either by capturing the emissions or by replacing power plants with solar and wind power.

6) Create a new solar power industry that is now the worlds largest new industry and employer.

7) Make all new homes so that they do not require central heating (heat from the sun) and so that they generate all of their own energy. Utility bills $0/year. Reduces the demand for energy and reduces electricity costs for industry.

Suppose all of these efforts turn out to be unnecessary. Which of them do you find so objectionable and without other merit? To me these steps promise

Prosperity - lots of new jobs in a new energy industry.
Clean air and water - less disease and premature death.
Reduce energy demand and therefore cost - frees income to spend in other ways
And just possibly also reduce the impact of global warming

If I am wrong and there is no global warming then we would just have to settle for prosperity, a clean environment, and some extra pocket change that we used to spend on energy.

Suppose on the other hand we decide not to try to prevent global warming. What if it is real? What then?

Is that a risk you really think we should take?

Answer 2

Well, I have to admit that I'm skeptical too. As far as I'm concerned, these scientists have to prove 3 things to me before I would actually accept that we need to spend big bucks trying to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

1) Is there "global warming"?

Well, there seems to be a lot of evidence for this. Ice core trends, shrinking glaciers, rising air/ocean temperatures. But how extensive is the warming, and what will it be in the future? There's models that predict this, but they don't agree, and they're being updated all the time to reflect new data.

2) Is "global warming" caused by the increase in human related greenhouse gas emissions?

Well we know that humans have increased the emission of greenhouse gasses since the world industrialized. And we know that there are some models that say that adding greenhouse gasses would cause global temperatures to rise. But then again there is no model that can possibly come close to simulating all the variables that could potentially affect global temperature. Might be it's just a coincidence. Might be, if the data showed the earth was cooling, that scientists would invent models explaining how humans are causing it. And they'd demand greatly increased funding for further research.

3) How much would the world need to cut back on greenhouse gas emissions to prevent some horrific "Day After Tomorrow" type catastrophy?

I really don't think that even Al Gore claims to have an answer to this question. This is the reality. If we did implement draconian controls to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we don't KNOW if that would actually do enough to have any measurable effect on global warming. Kyoto was talking about reducing emissions back to 1990(?) levels. Well, that's a lot more than we were producing in the year 990 and before. Would it even slow down the rate of warming? The reality is that no politician is going to take steps that would DEFINITELY ruin his nation's economy in order to POTENTIALLY reduce the effects of global warming.

So there you go. The quandary of "Global Warming" in a nutshell.



In reply to the guy below me:

Look just because I think global warming is over-hyped doesn't mean I don't care about the environment. I just think we should be concentrating our efforts on solving REAL environmental problems that are here today instead of wasting effort figuring out how to pump CO2 into the ground, or trying to make a quick buck scamming the carbon credit market.

Renewable energy? Great.
Biofuels? Those make good sense.
Higher mileage standards? Sure.
Reduce dependence on foreign oil? Absolutely.
Better building code standards to increase energy efficiency? Great.
Tighter emissions standards for lead, arsenic, mercury? Yes.
Gasoline tax? I would love to see this.

None of those good ideas require a global warming boogeyman to convince people of their benefits.

Answer 3

I tend to agree with you...though it depends how one defines global warming. The planet has indeed warmed by one degree Celsius since the mid 1800s. Unlike the alarmists, however, my belief is that this is a natural cycle....or if humans are contributing at all, it is a rather insignificant portion of it.

For the person who said the polar ice caps are melting...they were smaller in the 1930s than they are today. No, Al Gore isn't going to tell you that little bit of inconvenient truth. Also, for 90% of the history of life on Earth, the planet didn't have any ice caps AT ALL. In fact, that we have ice caps now is UNUSUAL in the grand scheme of things. Silly alarmist humans look at a snapshot of what the planet is like right now and think this is the only possible safe condition for the planet. What utter rubbish. If anything is NORMAL, it is a warmer planet...not one that is cycling in and out of ice ages as we have been for the last two million years. BTW, look at the fossil record...the planet is a happier place for all the cute little plants and animals when it is warmer. How can anyone possible think that ice age cycles are GOOD for life????? That's not what the fossil record shows.

Answer 4

I agree and disagree with several comments to this question, and then got bored of reading the rest.

Firstly, I would like to point out that global warming and holes in the ozone layer are completely unrelated.

Secondly, yes, we are in fact in cycles with wamer periods and cooler periods (ice ages), we just happen to be on a warming limb. So clearly global warming is occuring as a natural process.

The key arguement is weather mankind is accelerating the effects of this warming process due to the burning of fossil fuels and other carbon-containing products.

However, at the end of the Victorian era, scientists believed global warming was occurring, yet at that point in time global cooling was occurring and a mini ice-age took place (the RIver Thames froze).

So there is alot up for debate, but the earth is certainly warming, but is it at an unnaturally increasing rate?

Answer 5

I am so sorry but the global warming is here and affects everyone in the planet .If you see the movie Ice Age 2 that's what gone happen with the world . The humans are species and like the dinosaurs we are go to get extinguish like they do and many others species do. Read more about these BIG PROBLEM and you would see the real problem.Who thinks like you are so ignorant. And we are the real problem with our activities the global warming it's gone to be more for 2100. Other changes including a rising sea level and changes in the amount and pattern of precipitation.these changes may increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events such as hurricanes, floods, droughts,heat waves tornados. And many other consequences.So if you don't know about that please shut up.

Answer 6

Polar ice caps are melting, slowly but they are. Records show that the last 10 years have been the hottest since they first started keeping track of the heat. You choose what you want to believe. Personally I think it's 90 something degrees in an area that's usually 80, not global warming, more like heat wave, but it's warm nontheless!

Answer 7

Global Warming exist there is just nothing we can do about it. We may try delaying it, but you can only push mother nature so much and she will take something else to keep a balance.

History has shown us that the Earth has been through thousands of the mini climate cycles. We have just been fortunate enough to have been born when the earth is in the middle of her cycle.

Non the less she will heat up then cool down regardless of how much jumping we do.

Answer 8

Hallelujah! Sanity at last!

I love the environment as much as the next guy, but human caused global warming is bologna.
It is ridiculous how much money is being, well I guess not completely wasted, but think if the Kyoto money was going to Africa!


And consider this:

Temperatures have been on the since the ice age, historical accounts and tree ring patterns indicate medieval European winters were far harsher than modern winters. In other words, the Earth has been warming long before "Satan" introduced the SUV.

Eskimos rely on their snowmobiles just as much as we rely on automobiles.

Answer 9

Up until now I believed in it. We live next to a creek and it use to freeze every year during winter and you couldn't break the ice with a hammer. It hasn't frozen since 2000 now. The reason why I don't believe n it was because the temperture was really warm last winter and really cold this summer. It was so cool this summer that we had to use a heater to get our pool to go above 70. Isn't global warming suppose to make it warmer....

Answer 10

it truly is actual. it truly is only the lower than knowledgeable human beings that believe that there remains any controversy even as it is composed of international Warming. From a medical perspective, international warming isn't any longer a arguable issue. There are some scientists which doubt that GW is human led to, in spite of the indisputable fact that the vast majority agree that international warming is led to by technique of starting to be CO2 degrees whch all started together because the business revolution.