when are people going to realize that "global warming" is caused by the cycling of an ever-changing planet?

Question

the earth goes through cycles. we are at the very beginning of a warm phase. this isn't the first one, just the only one we humans have been around for. we are not the cause. everyone's heard of the ice age--same thing, just colder. or does that get blamed on the woolly mammoths? maybe it was their hairspray and air conditioning that brought about the freezing temperatures...

Answer 1

When I was in HS, it was forewarned that we would be a nuclear winter now...ok, it was 12 when I got up this AM but it is December.

Most people are really too lazy to do the research themselves. They listen to "I lowered my carbon footprint Gore" and his hysteria about it. A lot of celebrities have hopped on the bandwagon in words only and haven't done a thing about their private jets, limos, ginormous houses and lifestyle. They just have to berate the rest of us.

The icecaps are gradually increasing and we're coming back around to colder I think. Iceland and Greenland are seeing their ice increasing...one of the world's foremost climatologists is at the university in my town and he debunks the global warming on a weekly basis.

Climatology has only been a science for a short period of time when compared to the world. All we can do is theorize the past. Yeah, there is some pretty convincing evidence, but all in all, we are going on theories and suppositions. We have no real evidence but what has been developed in our science. Don't forget the worst hurricane season ever was supposed to be 2006 and all the hysteria that has caused. We've hardly had any decent rain.

People want someone else to do their thinking and deciding for them.

Answer 2

What we're experiencing is a pause in an uptrend. From here, we can't be sure where temperature will go. The cycle? Sunspots. Temperatures do not track exactly with sunspots, but as the 11 year cycles get closer together and larger numbers of spots, temperatures tend to get warmer. As the cycles spread (or stop) temperatures tend to get colder. You can try to explain this away, but this correlation works better than anything else we know. We don't have to pretend to know how it works, it just does. If it stops working, I'll happily admit that I was incorrect.

Answer 3

It would be nice for you to have posted the opinions or links
to actual scientific research supporting or refuting "global
warming" instead of your "lay" opinion.

Dont confuse what the media / politicians present regarding
climate change with what the the actual science as undertaken by scientists is revealing.

Furthermore, I guess the fact that there are 5.8 billion more consumers on this planet compared to the last ice age, and their significantly higher levels of living standards should have no impact on your anlaysis?

The earth goes in cycles. Everything is ok. Wow, what
a contribution you have made to the climate sciences!!

Answer 4

Unfortunately, I think that the earths population is largely uneducated and will believe anything they're told by media outlets. As long as the news, press, etc, portray Global Warming as being caused by humans, then people will believe it.

I wonder the same about Evolution. People don't look at it closely enough to understand that it's statistically impossible and that it violates the 2nd rule of thermodynamics. Simple systems never get more complex over time through random chance. Instead, complex systems fall apart over time.

The world is being drenched in lies and for the most part, is gobbling it up, hook, line and sinker. And those of us that actually think, are considered by the world to be kooks.

Oh well.

Answer 5

This is true, although there has been recent studies that have (not definitively) proven that CO2 is contributing to global warming, but is not the sole cause of it. Yes the earth has seen many climate shifts over the eons, but the earth was able to adjust, this time, there is CO2 emissions, the burning of fossil fuels, and billions of vehicles, factories, and industries that are contributing. With the clearing of so many millions of acres of forest, we are leaving our environment unable to filter out all the emissions as fast as we put them out...but you are right to an extent. There is much speculation, and scare tactics I agree, especially from some environmental groups who want nothing more than for you to repent for driving your SUV and not a hybrid...This is not the first climate shift, and it certainly wont be the last...

Answer 6

Global warming was invented by Al Gore just after he invented the Internet.

Seriously, volcanoes have put more into the air than any of us could hope to. Have the stringent rules about automobiles made any difference in California smog? When I was in school oh so long ago, it was taught we were entering into another ice age due to coal smoke blocking the sun.

Answer 7

When will people stop believing everything the corporate controlled media tells them. *cough* Fox news * cough*

Go see, "An inconvient Truth" it is an excellent summary of all the pieces of science that as a whole have made a very strong case for human driven global warming.

To directly answer your question, the planet has never warmed this fast in the last 100 years.

Answer 8

Because we have records of past cycles, based on analyses of millennia-old ice from the Antarctic, and can tell that past temperature rises were nowhere near as high as we've seen in a short period of time. Common sense tells you that man has an impact on his environment.

Answer 9

I'm in favor of MORE global warming. My house is currently 500 yards from the beach. I'd love to be a bit closer. My property values will go WAY up! Woo hoo!!!

Answer 10

It easier to just let someone think for us. This why cars have all those bells ringing and GPS for when they get lost going to Wal-Wort.
Is that a sugar muffin I see behind the gun?