Global warming deniers....honest answers please.?

Question

I am a biologist and a firm believer in global warming among other environmental issues. My question is for the people who do not believe that global warming is an issue. Why do you feel this way? I want real answers that give support to your opinion. I want to see from the other side of the fence. I will pick a best answer.
Thanks.

Answer 1

The primary reason that I am skeptical about the issue of global warming (not about the fact of global warming itself) is that the link between man made CO2 and the warming trend is poorly established and as a result, the long term effect is not understood. Specifically I have seen no explaination for the following:

The increase in atmospheric CO2 that can be attributed to the combustion of fossil fuels is essentially monotonic with time showing an almost linear increase from pre-industrial revolution value of 280 ppmv to the current value of 380 ppmv. The increase in global temperature increase over the same period, however, has not been monotonic and has in fact showed on period of temperature decrease, followed by a period of temperature increases, followed by a period of constant temperature, followed by the current period of temperature increase.

The CO2 levels today are higher than they have ever been, an not just by a little bit. The global temperatures, however, are not and are in fact about 2-3 degrees Celsius below past maximums.

The begining of the present warming trend started about 100 years after the man made increase in atmospheric CO2.

Surface temperatures appears appear to have increased first, followed by an increase in lower atmospheric temperatures. This is the opposite of what would be expected from warming by an increased green house effect (i.e. in the green house effect, one would expect the lower atmosphere to warm up first followed by the surface.

Since the models used to predict the future extent and degree of global warming cannot explain these observations, I am skeptical about the accuracy of their future predictions.

All of this aside, even the most rabid proponent of the "we must do something to stop global warming now" school has been able to come up with a course of action that will have a meaningful effect. Thus, I personally believe that we would be better off expending our resources in developing ways to cope with global warming instead of trying to stop it. I see the problem as being analogous to the following.

You and your family are in a car that has stalled on a railroad track, and you can see a train coming. Fortunately, you do have time to do something. You cannot get the car to start so your choices are:

1) Get out of the car and stand in front of the train to try and make it stop.

2) Get out of the car an get your family out as well.

Which seems to be the best approach to saving your family?

Answer 2

The question is not that people deny global warming the question is what percentage if any has humans has to do with it.
evidence shows that it is a cycle that has been going on for millions of years and will continue for the foreseeable future
Whenever there is talk about global warming I hear about C02 emissions.

I hear nothing about the increase solar activity that has been going on for the last decade
Nothing about the affect of hugh Forrest fires and volcanic activities
little about the gases given off by livestock, just us
as a scientist the first question I would be asking is why?


One of the reasons I am skeptical about all environmental declarations they tend to exaggerate things I am over 50 and I will give you examples from the1960's scientist said we were going into another ice age they said the world would reach 50 billion by 2020 many European countries are actually losing population, the Brazilian rain Forrest was losing a football field of Forrest every day from the 1960's it would have been gone by now. That the earth oceans would be come so polluted they would start dying in 20 years. So I hope you will understand when I have skepticism, experience has taught me that there is usually some kind of agenda when people make these declaration without good scientific evidence

Answer 3

I have no real position on this particular matter, but, honestly how do you even really know that it is a problem of global warming? I mean, we (humans) have not been studying the earth long enough to be able to say with all certainty that this is a problem cause by man. How do we know that this isn't something that the earth does all by itself every ten thousand years or so? Are we as a species so ignorant as to think that we could truly harm the earth so quickly with our technologies? The earth has been around for millions of years and is doing just fine thank you, so what makes us as a people think we have done so much harm in so little a time? The earth itself has spewed out more harmful chemicals and pollutants into the atmosphere in its lifetime than we ever could in our short existence, and it seems to be going fine so far. Why mess with something we really know very little about? I could go on about this more, but I think that you get the idea behind my theory. Is this the type of answer you wanted? Hope so.

Answer 4

Well they have brain washed most of u and it may be your teachers. Now my teacher taught me about plants and photosynthesis. If u study this u will find that God set it up from the beginning for plants to remove the CO2 from our air. The plants take in CO2 in the process and keep the C and give us back the O2. The air has been recycled many times . This is also part of the fossil fuel recycle process. U remember the C that the plants held on to ,it accelerated their food supply which accelerates their grouth. then winter comes and the leafs fall off and are washed down the rivers to the delta wherethey decompose into Gas ,Oil ,and coal. Think of us in a spacehip on a very long mission ,

Answer 5

For one thing, the Bush administration had altered the written results of scientific studies so that the issue of global warming sounds less urgent. President Bush is an honest man and he would never misrepresent such an important truth as this. His advisors obviously know better than the scientists involved in the study.

I believe that just as ardently as I believe he will insist that his daughters enlist so that they can fight and die with the thousands of other Americans in Iraq, Afghanistan, and wherever else more American blood needs to be spilled.

Answer 6

I just think that the world goes through natural changes example: look at what the climate was millions of years ago, warmer than now. And then it went through a cooling phase, ice age. Then it warmed up again, and in the 1500s to the early 1800s the northern hemisphere went through a "little ice age" it warmed back up and is still warming.
If you and I where to live for another 500 years I could prove my point, it's a natural cycle that keeps repeating itself. As more educated human beings, we are just more aware of it now then at anyother time in history.

Answer 7

well i honestly think that the earth is just going through a regular cooling and warming process. history has shown seasons go to extremes and i truly feel that this is just one of those times. i know there is a hole in our ozone but i do not think that the earth will be consumed by global warming in our lifetime or even our great grand kids' lifetime. i do feel that we should try to conserve some to keep that hole from getting bigger but the earth is just going through a normal phase.

Answer 8

"the threat of global warming is greatly exaggerated" - Freeman Dyson, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

A true scientist needs to be skeptical to all things.