Why is there such a controversy over global warming?

Question

What is the consensus in the scientific community?

Sources are most welcome.

Answer 1

Here is the primary reason for the controversy; research scientists who want to eat don't bite the hand that feeds them. A lot of grants are federally funded and if you want to keep getting your grants, you go along with the popular opinion - OPINION - in government. On the other hand are the scientists who no longer worry about grants who say "baloney" to all the sky is falling rhetoric. Interestingly enough, the scientists who don't care about the grants are, generally speaking, the older, more experienced scientists who don't have anything to lose or gain by saying that the models the newbies are using can't possible contain enough of the important variables to make them accurate, let alone reliable. The whole thing has been so sensationalized by celebrities, politicians, and the media that people all over the world are running around crazy. This is what I'm going to do: I'm going to do my best to not pollute. I'm going to respect my environment and I'm going to drive my SUV, burn my fireplace, be thankful that all those cows out there and all those farmers on their tractors are there to provide me with a meal, and I'm going to ignore these (seems like) millions of people who can't think for themselves.

Answer 2

If you saw the photo taken in the 80s of the ozone hole over antartica and then the current picture of the ozone hole, you would understand the problem. This is the protective layer which blocks out the harmful rays from the sun and space. Increased rates of skin cancer as well as the melting of the ice caps which hold around 30% est. of the worlds water is a major problem. Review the pictures of the world if the ice caps melt and where the new water line will be. Look at New Orleans or Holland which is below the water level and you'll understand the problem.

Answer 3

Because it's a long-term event, and humans have a notoriously short attention span.

Global warming is a naturally occuring event that has happened many times over the course of the planet's history. The current event has been in place for over 10,000 years. The difference this time, is that human intervention has accelerated the process. There is little likelihood of any human intervention that can reverse the process. Fortunately, Mother Nature is way ahead of us, and already has in place a recovery plan.
Will humankind live through the process? I doubt it. The planet will, but not us.
Oh well. We weren't meant to live forever anyway.

Answer 4

Because the globale warming is an advantage for the futur after scientists will discover that the real factor of the worse effects of climat change is the dryness directly resulting of human activies like waterproff surfaces , deforestation , drainage , and overpumping of underground water reserves.
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Answer 5

simple so many people including scientists and government members has there heads in the sand and in the pockets of global company's who did not want the cost of change enforced on them when the facts started to come out.
however the fact are becomings much clear with the massive losses in Arctic and Antarctic ice as well as glacers in the USA

Answer 6

There appears to be a gigantic organization of Americans who despise the invoice of rights freedoms we have now. They are they identical ilk who supported Communism and Russia earlier to their cave in at the side of the Berlin Wall. Hollywood massive cash and media giants have weaseled their means into hijacking the federal government. Both the Federal companies corresponding to Fish and Wildlife, Bureau of Land Mgmt, Army Corps of Engineers and so on, were granted tremendous powers of manipulate over individual estate and its use. The regional governments have grow to be enriched by means of the enviros through land use, allow expenditures, and mitigation and so on. by means of charging tremendous expenditures to builders of structures and residences, roads, and so on. The enviros have accomplished this vigour through the steady use of court cases towards the federal government and builders. They have grow to be hated and despised by means of many folks who must pay enormous quantities more cash to shop for their residences, and utilities, and whilst paying bigger taxes additionally. Now if GW may also be 'proved' the federal government will weigh down folks with 'carbon credit' to gather much more taxes. The envios worship animals and hate folks. I consider the enviros are descendants of the Salem witch hunters of the 1600's. It is a truly stew pot within the USA now. I consider the Islamic terrorists love the enviros.

Answer 7

The question is which scientific community. The one that relies on government funding for its existance or the independent scientific community. The government funded scientist can't get funding without creating crisis.

I was in college in the late 1970's and we were told to worry about the comming ice age. (See Newsweek article April 28, 1975)

The other problem is that Communist, Socialist and others have hijacked the environmental movement. They are using it to justify limiting freedom.

Answer 8

Because Al Gore needs something to do now that his political career went up in flames.