Why are liberals trying to mess with the natural environment?

Question

Volcanos are the biggest contributor towards greenhouse gasses which cause globalwarming. Now, reports show that methane gas from animals greatly overshadow those of transportation.

Global warming is obviously a natural occurance, so why can't these liberals leave nature alone?

Answer 1

To all the global warming alarmist, that we are to blame for the earth warming up about 11/2 degree in the last hundred years. Could you please explain why there is no debate over the 12 years of increase in solar activity and the melting of the Martian ice caps, could it be because it might blow your argument out of the water.

Answer 2

Sorry, but global warming is NOT obviously a "natural occurence". You are buying into the propaganda of the oil and coal companies, which are now considered to be about in the same boat as the tobacco companies. Even CONSERVATIVE fundamentalist Christians are wising up to this - its God's environment, and mankind is messing with what belongs to God... or didn't you get the memo? This is not a liberal issue - this is an issue for anybody that lives on the Earth. And if you want your children to live in what might become if we don't take action, then you must be a really mean person. Even if global warming isn't real (which the overwhelming evidence say that it is) it makes more sense to take action as if it were on the off chance that the conclusion that it isn't occurring might be wrong. Also, you are missing something here: this is a business opportunity - the businesses that engage in producing things like solar panels are going to see their stock shares rise... you may wish to take advantage of this information instead of ignoring it. I also think that the Nobel Prize winning scientists that say that it is real, and now the BUSH ADMINISTRATION acknowledging that it is real might convince you of the reality of it. Of course, you can always tell the Nobel Prize winning scientists that you know more than they do, or you can tell the Bush Administration that it is wrong - your choice, but you will look awfully damn silly.

Answer 3

Guess where most this methane from animals is coming from? Cattle. We have devastated millions of acres of forest in order to raise cattle on that land for our meat lust. This is not a natural occurrence. We humans have done this. Also, if you look at the evidence, the rate at which green house gasses has increased since the industrial age, you can see that it has spiked dramatically. It is quite obvious that we humans are the reason why we have accelerated global warming much faster than volcanism has. All the liberals are trying to do is to give future generations a habitable planet to live on. Is this really that bad? You should do more research on global warming before you completely discount human impact on global warming.

Answer 4

If you look beyond the stories you see in mainstream media and read some actual scientific journals you'll find that most scientists believe that the linear relationship between the rise in temperature and the rise in greenhouse gases that has been recorded in ice layers is in fact proof enough that we are having a direct influence on the environment, which we can control. If they're wrong, which they very well might be, why throw caution to the wind? This isn't a hand of poker, this is our vitality and that of our children. Why doesn't that sink in for you people?

Answer 5

"Volcanos are the biggest contributor towards greenhouse gasses.

"reports show that methane gas from animals greatly overshadow those of transportation."

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Answer 6

Because the "natural enviroment" may kill us! Natural sources like volcanoes have spewed the same amount for eons. But man made emmisions have increases dramatically with the industraliized age. If mankinds emissions were dramatically decreased, the global warming would slow or possibly even stop.

Answer 7

The answer is that liberals are not trying to mess with the natural environment, we're trying to preserve it.

Sorry but the evidence isn't that cut and dried. Who are you going to believe? With the lack of scientific evidence we are left with the rhetoric of the left and right which is driven by fear and paranoia. So you believe the rhetoric of the right, which is fine, but don't think for a minute that you have the absolute truth. We won't know for quite a while whether or not we're permanently damaging the environment. I prefer to err on the side of caution.

FP

Answer 8

Dubious...Take your point about animals: According to the EPA methane gas from livestock is significantly less than that produced by landfills alone, which it is hard to argue is part of nature. If you add those numbers to coal mines and natural gas/petroleum systems, those numbers are far, far higher than livestock.

Answer 9

Hey, let's not forget about the sun. It is a well known fact that ever since our solar system was born, the sun is continually getting bigger and hotter.

And someone tell Al Gore to stop writing books about global warming. Books are made from paper which is made from trees. And stop flying around in jets promoting his book. Jets fly off of fossil fuel.

Answer 10

Something to think about..."methane gas from animals" is partially caused by the huge farms of cattle that are raised by humans for human food. That's not so "natural."

And if we leave global warming alone, it will melt the ice caps and flood the planet, probably killing lots of people and certainly making lots of land inhabitable.