Global warming is a scam being perpetrated on us by libs with an agenda to kill the US economy. What you say?

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Al Gore is a fool and his "science" is flawed. And he's going to the Oscar's??? Laughable!! I don't doubt there are changes happening in our climate but it's not because I drive an SUV. Over the millenia, the ice caps have melted and frozen again many, many times. Core samples from polar ice prove that. Weather patterns change constantly and have done so for eons. Read it in the rocks. But Gore shows an iceberg calving off and people run for the hills. C'mon!! Here's 2 new books for you: The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change, by Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark and former BBC science writer Nigel Calder (Icon Books) and Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years, by physicist Fred Singer and economist Dennis Avery. Unstoppable Global Warming documents the reality of a moderate, natural, 1500-year climate cycle on the earth. The Chilling Stars explains the why and how. I recycle and do everything I can to conserve energy. I just don't buy the phony hype.

Answer 1

You know what's laughable? What you just wrote and your arrogance. You've spent a few hours reading some oil company funded propaganda and have been duped into thinking that now you know more than the world scientists that have spent years studying the climate change. Puh-leaze - give me a break!

The ignorance and denial here is surprising considering that starting last year and really picking up over the past two weeks since the upcoming IPCC report has been leaked, virtually all resistance is dissolving. Don't you read at all???

The right wing has been dragging it's feet on this, but all this is changing. Last year quite a few evangelical leaders, fortune 500 executives and oil company men signed a GW initiative. Oil puppet Bush is losing his support base on this and he followed suit in his State of the Union Message last week, saying it was time to address climate change.

Here's what Ben Witherington III, a prominent evangelical Biblical scholar, has to say about it:

"The Smoking Gun--1600 Page Global Warming Report Out Soon

1600 pages is a big report. Trouble is, it is only the first of four parts, the result of an enormous and some have said definitive report demonstrating beyond reasonable doubt that there is human causation of several sorts when it comes to global warming. The first part will be out in early February. America's top climate scientist, Jerry Mahlman joined with Canada's leading climate scientist, Andrew Weaver in saying the evidence is now compelling and beyond dispute. In fact he says of the report: 'This isn't a smoking gun,climate is a battalion of intergalactic smoking missles.' You can read the AP story here at the following link---
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16760730/.

I will not belabor the point since we have been talking about it already this week. I will simply say this report is written by 600 scientists reviewed by 600 others from 154 countries. That is what we call definitive and compelling. And one important thing about scientists. They tend to be very cautious as a group. They use words like maybe, possibly, or probably. They hardly ever say something is definitive, or beyond argument. This is what makes this peer reviewed detailed report so remarkable.

... perhaps we had better pay attention and see what a proper Christian response should be to this crisis, especially for the sake of being a good witness."

So let's see. On the one side we have the entire active peer-reviewed publishing scientific community, IPCC, NASA, NCDC, NOAA, EPA, CEC, UCS, and on and on. And on the other side we have ... ummm .... what was that ... oh yeah, a handful of non-publishing scientists most of whom receive oil money.

"In 1997, the UCS circulated a petition entitled "A Call to Action". The petition called for the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. The petition was signed by 110 Nobel Prize laureates, including 104 Nobel Prize-winning scientists." -- Wikipedia

This was back in 1997. Now, in the words of Dr. Robert Correll, "The science is unassailable."

I'm putting my money on the Nobel Prize winning scientists. Which side would YOU put your bet on?

Answer 2

Trevor wrote: "it is obviously no longer what the scientists are announcing and as far as i am conscious it can be now not what the media are announcing." Stephen W Hawking thinks world warming will kill us. You may also no longer be aware of who is Stephen W Hawking anyway In an ABC news interview in August 2006, Stephen W Hawking defined, "The danger is that international warming may just become self-sustaining, if it has not completed so already. The melting of the Arctic and Antarctic ice caps reduces the fraction of sun vigor reflected back into space, and so raises the temperature further. Climate change may just kill off the Amazon and other rain forests, and so eliminate some of the predominant ways wherein carbon dioxide is removed from the surroundings. The upward push in sea temperature could set off the release of large portions of methane, trapped as hydrates on the ocean flooring. Both these phenomena would increase the greenhouse outcomes, and so further global warming. We ought to reverse world warming urgently, if we nonetheless can."

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Trevor wrote: "that is on no account what the scientists are announcing and to this point as i'm conscious that is not any longer what the media are announcing." Stephen W Hawking thinks worldwide warming will kill us. you is probably no longer attentive to who's Stephen W Hawking besides In an ABC information interview in August 2006, Stephen W Hawking defined, "the threat is that worldwide warming might develop into self-retaining, if it has no longer carried out so already. The melting of the Arctic and Antarctic ice caps reduces the fraction of photograph voltaic potential contemplated decrease back into area, and so will enhance the temperature extra. climate exchange might kill off the Amazon and different rain forests, and so do away with between the main considerable techniques wherein carbon dioxide is faraway from the ambience. the upward push in sea temperature might set off the launch of huge parts of methane, trapped as hydrates on the sea floor. the two those phenomena might enhance the greenhouse result, and so extra worldwide warming. we'd desire to opposite worldwide warming urgently, if we nonetheless can."

Answer 4

I'm sure many people were screwed over the millenia when ice caps melted and frozen again many, many times. Because the core samples proved it happened in the past doesn't mean you're going to survive this time around.

Whether libs or republicans have anything to do with it, this freakin' extreme climate change will either drown, freeze, burn, or starve you to death. Either way, the US economy including the World economy will die or crawl for survival.

Put your selfish needs aside and think about the dangers we might all face on this planet if you continue to help blind the world from finding solutions.

Answer 5

Saying man is causing global warming is certainly erroneous. To blindly jump on the global warming bandwagon makes you a sheep. The more people they can get to believe their intellectual garbage the more people they'll have to vote in their bills. Most people don't know this but we just came out of a mini iceage around 1800. Iceages aren't just for wooly mammoths. They happen all the time and what do you think happens between ice ages? Global warming?

Answer 6

You might think it was a scam but it appears that the Bush administration is trying to hide the truth:

"A UCS survey found that 150 climate scientists personally experienced political interference in the past five years in a total of at least 435 incidents."

Answer 7

It's too bad you confine your research to Al Gore, Fred Singer, and other non-peer-reviewed junk. It would be much better if you grew up and started reading real peer-reviewed science. It's a much harder slog than googling some jerk's website, but you learn a lot more.

Why not start with the largest peer-reviewed study in the history of science? Here's a few links:

IPCC report on climate change:
http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/

Current climate warmest in last 1000 years (at least):
http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/fig2-20.htm

Current CO2 levels highest in 23 million years:
http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/fig3-2.htm

Answer 8

Al Gore is not a scientist and he never claimed to be one. So I have no problem if you don't believe him. But almost all climate scientists agree that global warming IS happening, and that human activity is partly (but not completely) to blame. About the only people who say otherwise are politicians, people in the oil industry, and the media in their misguided attempt to present both sides equally, even when the facts overwhelmingly support the global warming side.

In science, nothing can ever be proven to be 100% true (that means even the global warming nay-sayers can't be proven correct). The only way we will even know for certain if global warming is happening is to wait for it to happen. Personally, I don't think that's a good course of action - I think that even if there is a possibility that humans are partly to blame, we should do all we can to fix things (well, short of returning to the stone age). We only have one Earth, after all, so I'd rather not risk it!

Answer 9

95% of scientists believe that global warming is happenning, and 90% of scientists believe that global warming is caused by man, and not caused naturally.

Answer 10

NO
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