Global Warming = "The sky is falling, the sky is falling" said Chicken Little - Agree ?

Question

Who comes up with bad science like "global warming" (besides the libs) ? ....... Scientists that love to spend grant money???

Answer 1

Wow Patrick M -it's almost 100 degrees out in the SUMMER?!?!?!
Who would have guessed?
Funny how you only hear about global warming during the hot summer days. I've been on this planet for 41 years and while there are temperature differences from year to year there has been no evidence of it getting hotter and hotter. What about this last winter when we (in Wis) had one of the coldest winters in a while.
What about the summer we had three years ago when the temp. only got above 85 degrees once the entire summer? (that was in Racine, Wi.- it was nice- didn't have to spend money on air conditioning).
Here's a good way to dispel one aspect of global warming. They say the ice will melt and cause the sea level to rise (I've heard everything from 14 ft. to 100s of feet). Take a glass and fill it 2/3 of the way up with water. Now put 4 or 5 ice cubes in it and mark where the water level is. Wait an hour or two until all the ice melts. See how the water level has not changed? Why? Because the volume of water in the glass never changed after you put the ice cubes in. So, if the ice at the poles melts, the same effect will occur. The volume of the water doesn't change... just it's state from a solid to a liquid.
One of the funniest things I've heard from the global warming crowd was two years ago when we had heavy snowfall in the winter (gee, imagine that) and the global warming crowd tried to blame it on... yep, you guessed it... global warming!?!?!?!
Have a great day!

Answer 2

From the tone of your question, I wonder why you ask? It would appear that you have made up your mind.

As an engineer and a scientist, it is very disheartening when people choose to ignore the scientific facts in favor of partisan rhetoric. Any rational scientist who isn't on an industrial payroll will look at the data and conclude that the warming trends which we have been seeing, and especially the speed at which the changes have been occuring, are unique in the history of the earth. That is undeniable. The only question that can be argued about is whether humans have caused these changes or not - and since the rest of the world is pretty much the same (on a global scale) since the beginning of our geologic records, humans are the likely X-factor. Other hypotheses have one-by-one been eliminated.

Irregardless, I would suggest that there are other reasons for conserving fuel and using less energy in general. The health effects of smog in urban areas, in inordinate amount of power that we have afforded a few countries in the arid Middle East, the inherent benefits of using a renewable fuel source versus a non-renewable one.

Or you could just stick your head in the sand and hope the problem goes away . . .but since I have kids, I don't have that luxury.

Answer 3

Samantha makes some good points about conservation and the human health problems associated with pollution...but she is completely wrong in stating that the world is fairly unchanged in geologic history. Assuming that she really is a scientist, it is appalling for her to make that assumption, because nothing could be further from the truth.

In fact, the Earth has undergone tremendous changes throughout history. The existence of ice caps is one of them. Guess what, Samantha, for 90% of the geologic history of this planet (including the history of life) the Earth had NO ice caps at all...none, nada, zip, zilcho!!! And guess what? Life thrived under those conditions! In fact, the recent cycle of ice ages (and the associated ice caps) is likley the major cause of the ongoing Pliestocene Extinction event (though humans are exacerbating that to some degree).

Bottom line, the Earth has undergone climate changes vastly greater than we are seeing today, and very quickly too according to ice core data from both Greenland and Antarctica.

I don't deny that some global warming is occuring since the end of the Little Ice Age in the mid nineteenth century, but I don't automatically assume that humanity is the cause or that it is actually a bad thing for all the cute little plants and animals of the world. Frankly, ice ages do more harm than warm periods do...the fossil record proves that quite well.

Answer 4

When you have to use a gondola to travel through NYC while it's 112 F out, you'll change your mind, Pal! What does it take for you to realize the effects of Golbal Warming? Where I live, It's almost 100 F out and it's not expected to cool down until Friday.... OF NEXT WEEK!!!!!!!!

Answer 5

We really do NOT know for sure. Pardon my French, but there is quite a crapload of evidence pointing towards the Earth getting warmer.

Answer 6

I just don't think all the information is factual. People freak out about little things all the time.
Kind of like Y2K!

Answer 7

Not necessarily. We are experiencing much milder winters in Kansas and hot-as-hell summers.

Answer 8

crazy I am confused