Do you to believe in global warming? Do you know the same arguements were used to support global cooling?

Question

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/661876/posts

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15391426/site/newsweek/

http://tammybruce.com/2006/10/the_global_cooling_scare_from.php

Answer 1

The arrogance of Jim saying the debate is over reminds of the mindless suggestions of that great scientist Al Gore. Oh yeah, he's not a scientist at all but he plays one on TV. Some people are so eager to drink the Kool-aid they will swallow anything if it is from a liberal cause. The global warming scare mongers try to bury the data from the the Medieval Warm Period from about 900 AD to 1300 AD and the Little Ice Age from about 1500 to 1850 because it inconveniently proves them wrong. They fail to adequately explain why temperatures began warming at the end of the Little Ice Age in about 1850, long before man-made CO2 emissions could have warmed the climate. Then around 1940, just as man-made CO2 emissions rose sharply, the temperatures began a decline that lasted until the 1970’s, prompting a cry in the media and many scientists that the ice age is coming (the same chicken littles that are now scared of warming I might add). If C02 is the primary factor in warming, how could this be so. In spite of what the other Jim says, there are many scientists who courageously put science first and dispute these political hacks. Why does the media ignore the many skeptical scientists who disagree? The answer is all too obvious, the media is in bed with the liberals, democrats, communists, and third world tyrants that push this garbage.

Answer 2

The debate concerning global warming and more importantly what causes it is truly over my friend. Every genuine Scientific Study and expert agrees it exists and that we are the cause. Once enough of the ice caps melt The big question that now looms is can we stop it. Once enough of the ice caps melt it will trigger a domino effect that can not be turned back. The scientific community is split on whether it is too late or not.

The arguement on Global warming is very similar to the arguement on whether smoking was hazardous to a persons health that was waged 30 years ago. The tobacco companies paid their own seudo experts and spin doctors to create an image that the scientific community was divided when it really never was.

Anyway, the debate is truly over...do some internet searches of reliable scientific and news sources and you'll see this also. Even the administrations paid experts now begrudgingly agree.

Hope this helps...and stop listening to right wing radio ;o)

Answer 3

ahhh... 1975!!! The science of climate modeling was in it's infancy back then, barely started, in fact I wouldn't say it at all was started (how powerful was your average computer in 1975?), and the only 'arguments' I see put forward to support this thin 1975 global cooling thing are natural Milankovitch cycles, NOT human impacts through greenhouse gases. If you think science is a big conspiracy out to get you then you have bigger problems than global warming. Every single scientist in the field 'believes' in global warming.

I'm a petroleum geologist - I have no reason to support the fact that global warming is real - but it is real. Climate change is constant and has been going on for hundred of millions of years - I actually study this because it is important for my work - but very rapid substantial warming, whether it's from 'natural' massive volcanism (as has caused it a few times in the past but it is not causing it now) or from man-made sources, as now, is always nasty.

Anyone who doesn't 'believe' in global warming is ignorant. The worst kind of ignorance is proud willful ignorance.

Answer 4

While it is true that many of the same factors attributed to global warming do influence global cooling, they are two completely different mechanisms.

Global cooling is due to aerosols of small particulate matter, which mostly come from land-use changes and some from fossil fuel consumption, which have a direct effect by reducing the sunshine that reaches the planet and an indirect effect by seeding cloud formation. This causes an increase in atmospheric albedo - the reflectivity of solar radiation by the Earth due to cloud cover and atmospheric density. So, less sunlight gets in the more the planet cools. This theory came before the realization that these particles also attribute to a green-house effect, which will ultimately lead to global warming.

Global warming is that because of these particulates in the atmosphere, heat is prevented from escaping due to surface albedo (the reflection of solar radiation off of the surface of the Earth from lakes, glaciers and deserts). So, the heat that DOES reach the Earth cannot escape due to being reflected back to Earth instead of dissipating back into space.

Global cooling is still affecting us, but global warming is a greater threat.

Answer 5

The real evidence supports global warming.

Global cooling? It could result as the aftermath of global warming. The earth is a chemical system. It wants to, by nature, maintain an equilibrium. Now obviously it cannot, but has a very intricate system set up that continues to cycle itself.

By nature any system that wants to maintain equilbrium and dips too far off one end will need to correct itself. Or essentially the mass warming could trigger large shifts in global temperature that drop it dramatically.

Answer 6

No, I don't believe in global warming.

Ever since the Earth was made, it's gone through cycles. Global warming and global cooling are part of these cycles. They happen, yes, just like during the Ice Age, but they are just parts of the Earth's natural cycle. So maybe yes, global warming does exist, but it happend every so often, so what can we do about it?

But greenhouse gases are not the reason why "global warming" is happening. The greenhouse gases are fine. Well, not fine, but you know what I mean. Global warming is just another event in the life of Earth, and we should accept that and just let whatever happens, happen. Cuz really, what are you gonna do? Fly out to space and push the Earth farther from the sun and then bomb the whole world to get rid of greenhouse gases? It was easier when people just used poisons to make their skin pale and die then sit around on TV talking about how it's going to destroy us all.

Answer 7

I think the most salient point comes from one of the articles referred to in the question:
"And for good reason: the tools scientists have at their disposal now—vastly more data, incomparably faster computers and infinitely more sophisticated mathematical models—render any forecasts from 1975 as inoperative as the predictions being made around the same time about the inevitable triumph of communism."

Yes, forecasts of global cooling were made in the past, but the world has moved on since then. Saying that we can't believe predictions of global warming just because 30 years ago there were some people who predicted of the opposite is about as sensible as saying that we can't believe in the capitalist system because 30 years ago some people were saying that communism would eventually dominate.

Answer 8

Hmmm lessee...
Global warming is caused by 'greenhouse' gasses.
Global cooling is caused by 'greenhouse' gasses.

There just is no such thing as as been presented to us by the 'chicken littles' of the world.

This planet's mean temperature cycles around the freezing point of water and it is perfectly normal for some variation to occur.

When the cycle is to the warmer, more cloud cover is produced which increases albedo, which reflects more of the sun's energy, which causes the mean temp to fall, which reduces cloud cover, which allows more of the sun's energy to fall on the ground, which causes the mean temp to rise, which increases cloud cover ...

Can you say , 'global thermostat'?

I _thought_ you could.

Answer 9

You got it. That's why the Luddites and Malthusians keep changing their tune, and now call it "Global Climate Change" -- they can't figure out what the heck is happening.

Answer 10

Hi. It doesn't matter what I believe. Or you. The course of Climate Change has been, and is being, set buy human activities as a whole.