Am I the only person who finds global warming extremely exaggerated [and partly untrue]?

Question

Personally, I think the whole global warming issue has gotten way out of hand. Everyone says that global warming is the fault of humans and that we are going to melt the icecaps and everything.

1.) I bet if humans were really the cause of global warming to the extent that many people have believed, the ice caps would have melted years ago.

2) Recorded history has been around for thousands of years, but the earth has been around for MILLIONS. I don't feel you can make a fair judgement of the earth's temperatures without knowing how the earth has changed over those millions of years we don't know about. We might just be still warming up from the last ice age. This could of all happened before, but we don't know about and therfore could stop like it must've before.

I just don't feel like global warming is such the big deal everyone makes it and i definately don't think it's the end of the world.


Please say I'm not the only one who feels this way

Answer 1

you aren't. It's completely asinine and exaggerated. There is no way to PROVE that this is happening- since 2001 the earth's average temperature has risen .001 degree- this is smaller than the margin of error. Which means the temperature might not be rising AT ALL. Yeah they got a bunch of "leading scientists" to say that global warming is real- but there are just as many that say it isn't that they DIDN'T put in a movie or interview. It's so easy to sway the general public to one way of thinking or another- just put it in the media- the people are so dumb that they will believe most everything they hear in the media and not be able to think for themselves. I give you Kudos for being able to separate yourself from that and form your OWN opinion that the media didn't give you. People are so quick to take everything they hear as fact and not actually USE their BRAIN. It's sad, really.

Answer 2

You are not the only one, but you are as wrong as the rest who question the science suggesting anthropogenic-forced climate change.

There is no point in arguing specific evidence unless everyone is highly scientifically literate.

However, what I can tell you (being a global climate change scientist who has published numerous professional articles in major peer-reviewed journals) is that the scientists involved in this research honestly believe that it is real because that is what an objective assessment of their data tells them.

All political agenda BS and posturing is on the anti-warning side. It is a lie to claim that the scientific community is divided on this issue. In fact, there is overwhelming agreement among scientists expert in the field.

The fact that Exxon and others hire scientists to argue against the hypothesis should be irrelevant because, mostly, they are simply wrong in their criticisms. The problem is that most people are not qualified to evaluate their claims and the political campaign against warming has been effective.

Your questions and concerns have all been addressed and answered. The information is available, however the time it takes to understand it depends on the scientific and mathematical background of the individual person.

Maybe you should look at the topic from the perspective that every expert in the field is in agreement, and why is that you believe differently. Also, what information do you have that they have not already considered and should be informed about.

Trust me, if you know something none of us do, we would be more than interested in learning what it is. We have no political agenda – and even if we did, the data do not, and the scientific method operates the same regardless of political circumstances.

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Apparently, someone thinks they know more about this than I do (they don't). The least you could do is provide some demonstrable scientific evidence to back up your claim (you can't - but go ahead and give it a try).

I've already been attacked by McIntyre & McKitrick (the official hired anti-warming hit men), so don't be shy. As President Dumbo said, bring it on.

Answer 3

No you are not alone.

While there is general agreement that the Earth is getting very slightly warmer and that human activities contributes to SOME of this there is no agreement as to whether that is to a significant degree.

There is also absolute, undisputed information that the Earth was considerably warmer in the middle ages than it is now or is expected to become at any time in the foreseeable future. Clearly that could not have been due to human activity unless the Vikings were driving SUV's that we don't know about.

Let me reiterate that there is no dispute that there is a warming trend nor any dispute that human activity has SOME effect. But there is no concensus on what the relative natural/human caused percentages are.

Moreover, the effects of the current warming trend are not, as is often stated, some sort of catastrophe that wipes out civilization. Canada, and Russia, for example, will probably benefit from global warming. Vast tracts comprising millions of acres which are currently frozen wastelands will become verdant farmland. The increase in CO2 in the atmosphere will enhance plant growth and increase crop yields.

The forcus on global warming is entirely political. It is the latest attempt by the left wing crowd to harm the industrialized capitalist nations which they despise.

A few decades ago they were saying we should shut down our industry and abolish capitalism because it would cause Global Freezing. The End if Civilization As We Know It (TEOCAWKI) was at hand.

It didn't happen.

Then the Club of Rome predicted that there would be worldwide famine, the total collapse of the world economy, and global resource wars by the year 2000. The End if Civilization As We Know It was at hand.

It didn't happen.

Now you either abandon capitalism or Global Warming and TEOCAWKI is at hand.

Gosh, maybe third times the charm.

Answer 4

Nope.

Your car, alone, raises the air temperature in the immediate vicinity by anywhere from 70 to 2 degrees and this disipates logarithmically by distance, but where you have 50 million vehices in one State such as California and you run them for hours at rush hour you get a lot of heat and smog.

All of this, over a 75 year period of time, mixed with industry will cause something to happen to the environment.

It's already raining cancer from the skies. The water is contaiminated with things that geneate PCBs and go into the water table and ground soil. That should be scarey enough, but it isn't.

GE has to clean up, single handedly, the Hudson River to get out all the PCBs they put into it.

PCBs cause cancer. It's in most of the ground water and well water in America.

This does not come from nature, it comes from man and plants and industry and chemicals to make our lives better.

PCBs will kill you, just as surely as smoking tobacco can kill.

Now, as to exactly HOW much of GLOBAL warming is NATURAL and MAN MADE is hard to tell.

One way to do it is outlaw Cars and Industry plants today and wait 100 years and see if things are the same, better or worse.

No one is going to do that.

Fortunately, we will run out of oil in 200 - 400 years, so Nature is going to put an end to oil and gas burning things.

Answer 5

No, President Bush, the president of Exxon and all the other people who stand to lose money if we do something about it agree with you. All scientists who don't work for those people disagree with you. The warming is due to CO2 which is due to us(the car mainly). The rise in CO2 levels and car/power plant emissions are very well correlated. Cars are relatively new and human population before them was much smaller. We are doomed, I'm afraid. Not you and I of course, but future generations. Either the warming will take off and sea levels rise by 200 feet, or there will be so much water vapor in the air that the sun will get blocked out. In that case either we will go into a sauna like venus or an ice box. I'm not sure which you prefer. So enjoy that SUV while you can and you'd better go see those polar bears and glaciers too. They are marvelous. Don't forget to turn the lights out and save energy.

Answer 6

Brace yourself; you're going to get a lot of rude responses!

The average temperature of the Earth is going up. It may be us. It may simply be part of the normal warming and cooling cycle that the Earth goes through. There are sincere people that are concerned that this is not part of the normal behavior of the Earth's climate. Unfortunately it's hard to get people motivated by a concern over a potential outcome. It's much easier to scare the crap out of everybody.

The things I note that are irronic about SOME of these people are that they are very anti-human. For instance, there was a question on Answers where someone asked what species would you make extinct if were up to you to choose. There were several that said US. We're screwing up the world - war, the environment. Who do these people want to save the world for?

One might compare the current concern over global warming to the concern over the use of nuclear weapons during the 70s and 80s. Nuclear winter was the term used to scare everyone into fearing the inihalations of the human species. Prior to that, there were those that claimed there were enough nuclear weapons in the world to shatter the planet or to knock it off it's axis. Neither were true, but the scare tactics were toned down until they got to something that sounded more realistic: nuclear winter. The threat of a nuclear war would kill millions, but the human race would continue. But nuclear winter would get the rest of us, so everyone should be concerned. It was made up. It was created to make a major threat (millions in major cities dying) more relevant to every one (living in a podunk town wasn't going to save you).

The threat is probably real in that we can do some major damage to ourselves and to other live on Earth. We won't all disappear at once. If we're making our environment uninhabital, it will kill off enough of us so that it can correct itself and those remaining will survive.

Answer 7

Sorry to say that you ARE the only one that feels this way. We are the cause of global warming , with all the industry the United States is made up of and many other countries, too. And we have already caused many of the icecaps to melt. When I say 'we', I mean every human being in the world.

Answer 8

you aren't the only one, but you are very uninformed....The oceans are rising....107 inches of snow in New York, polar bears are drowning, etc.

Ice caps couldn't have melted"years" ago.Why ?WE wern't using fuel at such an incredible rate. we are using up the worlds fossil fules at a tremendous rate , there is a large hole in the ozone, caused by fossil fuel emissions;.

;More sunlight is getting through the atmosphere because the ozone layer isn't thick enough to keep it from reaching the atmosphere......The weather patterns are changing ....... Scientists have been warning us about this problem for years. The United States, the largest consumer of fossil fules, has largely ignored the scientists
labeling them as left wing radicals......Guess what ! These guys are right............Read some more about the subject and try to gain a better perspective........You are proably young enough to help facilitate change.at the government level......

Answer 9

I think you're niave and uninformed. The reason global warming is such a problem now is because of the industrial revolution and huge increases in people. We lasted for a long time without ecological problems. But, in the last 100 to 200 years we have started destroying our eco system through industrial factories, deforestation, car emissions, developement, etc.

It is a problem that needs to be addressed by all of us, and we need to do as much as we can to slow down the global warming process.

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