What would be a legitamite reason for making up global warming, and shouldn't we fight pollution anyway?

Question

I'm in the process of doing my own research and reading on the subject, so I'm still working on my opinion about whether or not it's real.
However it would help if you would answer this:
What do you think a legitamite motivation would be for making up global warming?
I can definitely see what the motivation would be for saying it's not real, if it is. If it's real it would hurt a lot of jobs, economies, and put a strain on daily life, and it's scary to think of more hurricanes and such.
Also, I have asthma becuase of the smog I inhaled daily as a child in Southern California. So, even if global warming isn't real, don't you think we should cut down on air pollution, and dependace on a non-renewable source of energy (oil) anyway?

oops, I meant legitimate.

crabby, I never said I thought it was fake. I am trying to gather my thoughts so I can form an opinion and this is one of the things that I think factor into it, what the motives would be on either side. I am leaning one way, but I didn't want to say which side I'm leaning towards so I could get unbiased answers, instead of lectures.

Answer 1

I don't believe it, (I mean, I'm pretty sure global warming is a fact, and what else should I believe if 95% of science is already convinced for many years, even decades it was happening) but a good made up reason would be that the world is running out of fossil fuels, and what's left is mostly in the hands of unstable governments. Without having an alternative, and if we don't turn the trend in use, we're gonna run into problems. So if you make up another, extra problem, this could help to turn the trend. I think that the fact we are running out of fuels (high prices) may even be a blessing in disguise. I think the world is getting an extra wake up call through this. Would this have happened if oil would still be half of what it cost today? Would Al Gore have handled the problem as he approaches it now, if he'd been president? Or would he'd still be protecting the big economics, maybe not much different than Bush does today? I think Americans, but not only them, are confused lately. They want to mix up everything they can, like politics, religion and science. All kind of strange effects start to emerge like growing christian communities that call for political/christian revolution, even armed if necessary, creationist "science", 9/11 conspiracies, people who like to see relations between elections and 6-annual UN climate reports, etc, etc.
Take your time to make up your mind, it can be better to think twice than choose too soon, but I hope you end up on the side of reason. Scientists, and science in general don't grab their conclusions "out of the air".
Edit: this simple man above me is in my opinion not on the side of reason, with his own made up science. He probably didn't even use a pocket calculator to check his thesis.

Answer 2

Global warming has become a major business, believe it or not. The world has found a way to make the US responsible for all kinds of changes in the climate and have found it convenient to ignore the facts to the contrary. The US produces nearly 25 percent of CO2 emissions but it also captures the largest portion of CO2 from the atmosphere. The single eruption of Mount Saint Helen produced more CO2 than all mankind in ten years. That must be our fault too.
With all the talk about green house gases, the very basic research in insolation (the amount of energy from the sun has NOT been done) there is NO exact figuire of the Oblateness of the Earth (the amount of light reflected back into space); it is recorded as somewhere between 0.4 and 0.8 (meaning we don't know how much energy is really getting through by a factor of 3! is it 60 percent or 20 percent) The basic research has not been done on what changes the oblateness.
Remember, Carl Segan told us that if all the Oil wells in Kuwait were set on fire (they were by the retreating Iraqis ) the world would be covered by a dark cloud and we would have a "nuclear winter" billions would starve. He was a brilliant man but he did not know this one thing as well as he thought. All the people "In the Know" don't know as well as they say they do.
When the globe has warmed even a small amount more snow will be the result with more reflected heat and a corresponding drop in temperature will follow. Then we will talk about he coming ice age.

Answer 3

I answered the question earlier where you had responded with this question. So, here is a repeat of what I answered there.

I believe that global warming exists but is natural and at most slightly enhanced by man, not created and not primarily responsible for it.

However, there are so many competing reasons for why people either believe or desperately want to prove that it exists.

I feel that the many of the ones that promote this may have a good intention initially. Unfortunately, many others take over the science and promotion of this and then try to scare us into taking actions. So many of them want us to not burn anything in hopes of not damaging our planet and the atmosphere, that they use this issue to create a momentum there that doesn't exist. In effect, air pollution is not as serious a problem as it used to be so this is the next way to force people to follow their ideas.

The next group of people are involved because they are being pulled by the possibility that they may be involved in what they think could save the earth. As the drama has increased, so has their drama and fear tactics that they use to promote their science.

Finally, you have the ones that are fully funded by this type of research. Again, while they may have started by a legitimate desire to do good, it is now there job to propagate the cause for their own living.

And, yes, there are lots of people on the other side that have vested interests as well. Lazy, greedy, selfish, etc., are all terms that are thrown about to try to diminish their arguments.

I go back to one thing, when the actual facts concern me as much as the present hype and inconsistent extrapolations, then I will believe. Too much of the data right now doesn't converge if you look at the whole picture.

Answer 4

Several reasons someone may make up or exagerate the idea of global warming is fear, lack of knowledge, and money.

Fear is one way of controlling people. Politicians and others may be using this tactic to get more people to trust and rely on them. Some of the ideas on the consequences of global warming are down right terrifying. When fear becomes a factor, people become irrational. Ideas, facts, data, etc. gets blown out of proportion, which only feeds the fear.

Lack of knowledge is another reason, as I feel some people just aren't educated on this subject. People are forgetting important things like how long we have actually been accurately measuring weather, that more people are living on the coasts (which makes it seem like the storms are more devestating), etc.

People are making major bucks off of this idea. People are making movies, writing books, and articles.

Finally, yes, we should be cutting down on all types of pollution, finding and using new energy sources, and coming up with wiser ways to use our other natural resources.

Answer 5

You obviously not been doing any real research. Or you'd know global warming is real--and caused by human action.

Try getting off the junk science websites once in a while and learning some real science.