Why do people believe that global warming exists when evidence proofs other wise?

Question

I was one's erigant i want the schools taught me about this subject till the 7th grade when a Geologist came to my sciece class and this topic came up.He said there was no concreate proof that glablal warming will happen and the people in favor of the idea keep changing the estamets based on when they will probably die so they wont be proven wroing in there life time. I fgeel that is not true science going by when you think you' die aqnd arnt most of thease guy's the one's pertedicted the next ice age woul happen by 1977 than changed it to glabal warming and changed the date.We need to oust sudo science and stop polotics from clowding facts. He also proseeded to rtell us 95% of polution is cause by nature not man and global tempiture's vare's judged bye volcanic activitey not 3rd world factories that emit quote green house gass's. I think we need to make Santa and his elf's more E.P.A complient if we want to stop climate change lol if it can be done.Another thing the news wont tell you

Answer 1

sweet pea-you should seriously take another look at your spelling. I think I missed half of what you said??!!!

Answer 2

Yes there are non anthropogenic sources of so called green house gases, but this does NOT negate the fact that we are adding unprecendented levels of CO2, SOX's and NOX's into the atmosphere through the combustion of fossil fuels. IT HAS BEEN PROVEN that there is a correlation between increased CO2 and increased gloabl temperature. The temperature has been risiing, just not as much as scientists originally thought it should be because they did not fully understand the mechanisms which regulate global temperature. It turns out half the stuff we put into the atmosphere reflects solar radiation effectively cooling the planet and reducing the effects of CO2 and other radiatively active gases. An ice age is expected to happen sometime in the not so distant future as historically they are spaced about 10000 years apart, and that's roughly when the last ice age ended. It isn't exact science, but it is a lot more right than you think. Global warming could even help to trigger the next ice age, much like in the movie The Day After Tomorrow, just not nearly so extreme (typically an ice age is characterized by a drop of average global temperature around 5 degree celcius). The melting of the ice caps will distrupt the thermohaline circulation which will impede its ability to draw warmth up to the northern latitudes. Places like England will get much colder, cold as they should be considering the latitude they lay on. Basically this: just because there are some natural sources of green house gases is no reason to assume that our contribution is insignificant and does not have the ability to overwhelm the natural balances existing on the planet. Go to a university and buy a text book on environmental science, the facts are all in there, as well as the doubts.

Answer 3

Yeah the spelling is pretty rotten, it does make it hard to discern the over all meaning but I think it can basically be countered with The Geologist Who told You That Is A Fool. And he was probably funded by the government. How do I know? Easy. I am a geologist, and at the national meeting this year, a geologist tried to make that claim. It pissed everyone off pretty bad, and we all figured he must have been funded by the government and an idiot to boot. If you have a strong foundation in the goelogical sciences, and you look at the carbon curves, you will see that increase is happenning at an unprecedented rate. And it's directly linked to undustrialization. And yes, there have been periods where we had warming like this before. Many occur at the same time as big five mass extinctions.
If it gets hot, it is going to get ugly!

Answer 4

One, use spell check. Two, global warming is real. Its not the hysteria inducing new religion of the panic-addled zealots who feel guilty about there privileged lives or that they absolutely know better. Its not the 'this is not happening' mind set of many scientists, either. Its something that happens, naturally enough, we have just sped it up, dramatically. Exhausts from hundreds of years of burning fossil-fuels has raised global temperatures a measurable, if negligible amount, for now. Temperature will continue to increase, ice will melt, and all of this will result in an ice age. Nature is cyclical, and we humans hate things outside of our control. As for time-frames, I can't tell you. My crystal ball is in the pawn shop so I could put gas in my car.

Answer 5

Dude! You seriously need to learn to write English.

Global warming is real, and it's a problem. If the guy said different, he's a moron. There is plenty of evidence that it's happening. Al Gore's movie is right on target scientifically. Hah! He was too smart to be elected. We wanted someone we could look down on and laugh about... so we elected dubya. Now I guess the joke's on us. :(

Answer 6

Yes, they probably did change the dates about the next ice age but you have to realize that science is something that keeps changing. There is never a prediction that is 100% accurate. Well, about the global warming thing it is more likely that it will happen. Many of the icebergs are melting and the Earth is getting warmer.(next time please check your spelling)

Answer 7

I was a biologist at one time.

Right, there is no absolute proof for human-caused global warming. But, there's plenty of evidence. The evidence supports human-caused global warming. We really are putting a lot of fossil carbon into the atmosphere, which is why carbon dating doesn't work for the recently deceased.

Keep an eye on those receding glaciers.

Answer 8

my theory::
HOT==> ICE AGE==> Lesser Ice Age(1970s)==>Normal==>LEss hot==> REPEAT CYCLE:
Were between NORMAL and LESS HOT::You're right: Volcanos and also planktons produce CO2 that result to Global Warming:: but our problem is the OZONE LAYER DEPLETION BECAUSE OF OVERPOLLUTION (in history people burn small things but today were burning mountains and fuel).

Answer 9

rent the new documentary "an inconvenient truth"