why is the weather acting crazy all over the world - if global warming is an invention of the demorats?

Question

I was just reading some comments about al gore and "an inconvenient truth" - being a bit surprised that obviously many americans are denying even the existance of global warming.

So why is the weather acting crazy everywhere? Are those some special effects used by the democrats to undermine their arguments???

Answer 1

The Earth's climate in general is going slowly thru a warming phase much as it has many times. How do you think the ice age ended? Global warming... way before man could have possibly affected the climate. Global warming comes from the sun, period. There are a few slight factors involved. Greenhouse gasses, such as carbom dioxide, hold the Earth's heat from escaping back into space. Gasses commonly called pollution, such as sulfur dioxide, reflect the sun's energy back into space. Here's where it gets tricky... over the last 30 years or so, we've cleaned up the pollution but have added more carbon dioxide to the Earth's atmosphere. Now, more of the sun's energy reaches the surface and more is held in, hence "global warming".

For the second part of your question... All of the so-called "experts" predicted a nasty hurricane season again this year. What happened? Did the republicans somehow blow the hurricans back out to sea to increase their chances of re-election? If so, they should have advertised it, 'cause they didn't do so well...

Answer 2

Well, I believe that the global warming is real. Why I say that is real...very simple...The increased amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) are the primary causes of the human-induced component of warming. They are released by the burning of fossil fuels, land clearing and agriculture, etc. and lead to an increase in the greenhouse effect.
An increase in global temperatures can in turn cause 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 floods, droughts, heat waves, hurricanes, and tornados. Other consequences include higher or lower agricultural yields, glacial retreat, reduced summer stream flows, species extinctions and increases in the ranges of disease vectors. Warming is expected to affect the number and magnitude of these events; however, it is difficult to connect particular events to global warming. Although most studies focus on the period up to 2100, warming (and sea level rise due to thermal expansion) is expected to continue past then, since CO2 has an estimated atmospheric lifetime of 50 to 200 years. Only a small minority of climate scientists discount the role that humanity's actions have played in recent warming. However, the uncertainty is more significant regarding how much climate change should be expected in the future, and there is a hotly contested political and public debate over implementation of policies that deal with predicted consequences, what, if anything, should be done to reduce or reverse future warming, and how to deal with the predicted consequences. That's my opinion.

Answer 3

CO2 is 30% higher than it has been for 650,000 years. Methane is 130% greater. These are two of the main pollutants humans put into the atmosphere in excess, and they are two of the primary greenhouse gases.

Look at the 'hockeystick', which shows a dramatic warming since 1950 after a fairly stable climate for 1000 years. In fact, the 10 hottest years in recorded history have all happened since 1990, with 2005 being the hottest, and 2006 is shaping up to maybe break that record.
(see links below)

How's that for proof of man's fault in this? There is ample proof, any real scientist will tell you that.

There has NEVER been an article doubting man's influence on global warming published in a peer-reviewed journal. A recent study of almost 1000 proved that.

Yes, the earth naturally heats and cools, but the rate and amount we are warming now is unprecedented in the recent geologic past. We are doing this, and we must stop it. This is not some political statement or rhetoric. This is science trying to educate a crass, ignorant public of the damage they are doing. The magnitude of temperature increase ALREADY is about 10x that of the 'little ice age' of the middle ages, and rate and amount are only going up.

Just to be clear, glacial and interglacial cycles are mainly controlled by astronomical fluctuations, but we have a detailed record of the last 7 cycles, and what the climate and CO2 is doing now is way different and extreme. The rate of increase is much higher than in the past AND the value itself is much higher.

HI CO2:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4467420.stm
HOCKEY STICK:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5109188.stm
General climate stuff:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3897061.stm

Answer 4

I believe that global warming is real. Where I live we used to see ice bergs every year - none for about three years now. We lived in Nunavut for a year and a glacier there that we could see from the community is visibly decreasing in size. The polar ice caps are shrinking. Of course, there have been dramatic changes in the earth's climate at various times throughout history, but that doesn't mean that the change that is happening now is any less serious.

Answer 5

I am puzzled why you think the Demos are the deniers. Al Gore, Demo, has been leading a campaign of global warming awareness and response with his "An Inconvenient Truth" documentary movie. Senators Boxer and Feinstein, both Demos from California, have introduced legislation to drastically reduce global warming emissions from cars.

No, the deniers are one of two groups: the incredibly naive who just cannot face the "inconvenient truth" or the big business tycoons who fear profit losses if they pay big bucks to stop global warming. Given that the Reps are known buddies of the big business tycoons, which side do you think they are on in this global warming debate?

The incredibly naive mantra is that global warming is just a natural thing. To be sure, it is, we have evidence of global warming and cooling cycles dating back hundreds of thousands of years. But, and this is a big BUT, none of those warming cycles in the past has hit the Earth so hard and so fast as this current one. The fact that we're having a global warming event now is natural, the fact that this one is coming on so fast and so intense is not natural...the intensity and rate of onset are mankind induced. [See source.]