Check Senator Inhoff's speech on the floor of the Senate on September 20, 2006. There was more CO2 in the air at the time of the dinosaurs than there is now. Weather is cyclical and we are in a warming period although it was warmer in the 1950's than it is now. How good are weather forcasters? They predicted a worse huricane season for 2006 than that of 2005 - not an exact science.
2006-12-13 04:22:48 · 10 answers · asked by Srage 1 in Environment
Someone else put it well. "..there are many variables..". It is all theory. THEORY! The only way to make global warming (as presented by environmental scientists) fact is to have ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING accounted for. Just as weather has cycles, so do these kinds of issues. The Ozone holes (yes, there is one above Siberia, too, which Russian scientists delcared was created by intense cold....sound plausible??), over population, nuclear waste, the spotted Owl. All of those things were "buzz words", back in the past. This one will go away too, once these scientists die off, and new ones take their places with new things to worry about.
Oh, and Global Warming is a fact, just as Evolution is. NOT!
2006-12-13 04:47:47 · answer #1 · answered by Panzer D 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Actually we should be in a cooling period right now if you look at the cycle. And it is difficult to predict more or less hurricanes in the season... However, what is being predicted is the severity if and when hurricanes occur. Hurricanes become worse as the water becomes warmer so if there are hurricanes they will be worse because the water is warmer. But we never know what the hurricanes would be like without the warmer water caused by global warming. When you are trying to model what will happen in the future it will never be exact -- there is an infinite number of variables.
2006-12-13 12:33:00 · answer #2 · answered by ecogeek4ever 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Global warming could be real, or an imagined event resulting from over-paranoid scientists and environmental activists. I know that the world is being polluted, and we aren't exactly on the right track for keeping it inhabitable. I also know, however, that throughout Earth's history, temperatures have fluctuated up and down significantly. Take the ice age, or the time of the dinosaurs, for example. This could be the beginning of another fluctuation, and for the first time a species intelligent enough to notice it inhabits the earth, or, this could really be the beginning of the destruction of our planet. I'm neutral. You make your own choice. I'm just glad to give you some information.
2006-12-13 12:32:19 · answer #3 · answered by Charlie Brown 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Global warming has gone on for the past 10,000 years. Nothing that humans did caused this warming but I'm glad it happened! Life would be miserable if the earth was as cold as it was during the last ice age.
That carbon dioxide has caused global warming is ridiculous! There is absolutely no evidence of that.
This "crisis" has been concocted by some scientists in order for them to get government funds for research. For a university professor, an axiom is "publish or die". Universities receive much of their funding by getting government money to sponsor research.
It's simple, no crisis, no government funding , no research, no publishing by the university professors who are the "scientists" that are saying that greenhouse gasses are causing "global warming".
2006-12-13 13:08:03 · answer #4 · answered by Smartassawhip 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They think that by the year 2040, the north pole will be completely ice free in the Summer. They know the earth is warming up at a faster rate now than ever before. There was a lot of things different in the time of the dinosaurs, that doesn't prove anything.
2006-12-13 12:35:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The globale Warming is not a problem , it could be an advantage for the evolution of climat.
But we first need to understand that the increasing of dryness by directs human action such as waterprof surface , deforestation, overpumping of underground water reserves is the worse factor for climat change.
We still can change the way with globale water management concept.
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2006-12-17 09:13:18 · answer #6 · answered by pingouin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The CO2 increase during the dinosaur era was natural because of the abundant trees and plants and the fact that the continents were arranged far differently than today. How can you compare something hundreds of millions ago to the problem we are facing today?
And the mere fact that you compare hurricane forecasters to others who predict climate is simply ridiculous. You are talking about two different scales of motion - small scale (hurricanes, storms, etc.) versus large-scale changes (global and regional). Climate scientists understand large-scale far more than the smaller details.
2006-12-13 12:26:49 · answer #7 · answered by weatherjay2002 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
When you hear alarmists saying things like we are heating faster than ever before, you know that it is not science but emotion which is dominating their thought process. Too many people are gullible to the latest chicken little crying the "the sky is falling, the sky is falling." What is sad is that many scientists are all too willing to exploit the ignorant and apparently too many scientists seem to be among the ignorant.
2006-12-13 12:51:28 · answer #8 · answered by JimZ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is just one of many imaginary chrises that we are supposed to worry about and demand government further restrict our freedom. Remember Y2K?
Then there's the "hole" in the ozone layer. Every few years a comet is supposed to hit the earth. Twenty years ago they told us that by the year 2000, every other person on the face of the earth would have AIDS,
2006-12-13 12:28:46 · answer #9 · answered by iraqisax 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Oh well, if a senator said it, he must be right.
qf Weapons of mass destruction.
2006-12-13 12:26:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋