What do you think of this information regarding Global Warming?

Question

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa576.pdf

This is an extensive compilation and analysis of gathered data and studies regarding global warming by Patrick Michaels , Professor of natural resources at Virginia Polytechnic and Virginia State and Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute.

Well crabby which special interest group that funded other studies would you believe??
The fact that someone can discount an analysis by a more than qualified person because they don't like the Cato Institute and claim the report was funded by oil companies ... well is that any more silly than a special interest group funding that would want the report to show things in their interest?

Answer 1

The Crabby types have their heads so far up themselves they need glass bellybuttons to see to walk...
These Cato studies go hand in hand with Vostok Ice core studies, and proven Milankovitch Cycles (earth orbit cycles). Mans contribution to atmospheric greenhouse gasses MIGHT be a contributing factor, but no serious scientist or organization has been able to show any clear evidence of just how much that may be. Most are government paid and on government grants, running around yelling "the sky is falling" with no proof except melting ice caps and Co2 increases due to natural solar cycles. Socialist liberal government thrives on crises and adversity, using them to justify higher taxes and tighter controls on personal behavior. "We are from the government, we are here to help you".
My answer to the fear campaign? I moved out of the city, into a remote rural area and now ride a 100 mpg motorbike to town and back once a week for groceries. The only electric appliances I have are a TV, computer, fridg and freezer. Hot water is supplied by a highly efficient woodwaste burning water heater. My water is pumped by a wind system from the creek to a gravity feed reservoir uphill from the (old all metal mobile home). I grow most of my own food, and bake my own bread in a wood burning oven. Bottom line? My electricity usage has been reduced 75%, my fossil fuel usage at least 80%. Now ask yourself, if everyone in the country did this what would REALLY happen to our economy? (does it really matter?)

Answer 2

Global warming is at the fore front because politicians found how to use a new platform to get re-elected. The world leaders use it because they found ways to make money at it. This is a made up problem just like Global Cooling in the 1970's. Wake up people. I agree we need to be more efficient with our resources, and we should fine and jail companies who are dumping into our rivers maliciously. I want to stop the raiforest destruction, but to say that global warming is a serious man made issue and we need to destroy the American economy and bow down to the rest of the world certainly does not float my boat. Follow the money on this one and you will see that it is all for political gain and grant money for those scientists who profit off of the government if global warming stays at the front of the issues. Look deep into the Keoto (sp?) Treaty, first of all they took jets to a non-central resort location. Not very environmentally concious. THen in the parameters of the treaty they have a clause that makes it so you can buy or sell polution credits. This is all about shifting wealth and breaking down the United States. This is painfully obvious, just look at peoples agenda. The earth's mean temperature has risen .6 degrees C in the past 125 years. Greenland's icecaps have gotten colder in the past 10 years. The Scientists who do not gain anything on their posisition will tell you that the earth has a natural progression and this is what we are seeing. The UN report is made up of POLITICIANS not a good spread of scientists. THere are as many or more scientists who believe that man in NOT the reason and it is over hyped, but their voice is not heard in the LIberal Mainstream Media. This issue is 99% political, and an attempt to make the USA a socialist nation, and eventually communisim. WAKE UP AMERICA, IT IS TIME TO BE AMERICANS. FOR THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE. STOP THE LIES

Answer 3

You can find a few scientists who deny global warming. But the vast majority agree that it's both real and caused by us.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686

Why would you accept a tiny minority opinion?

Unless you had a political reason for wanting to believe it. Like CATO, which is a very political organization, not a scientific one. Here are a few organizations that disagree with CATO on this.

Human activity responsible for current global climate change:

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Geophysical Union
American Institute of Physics
National Climate Data Center
National Research Council
National Academy of Sciences (US), Royal Society (UK), Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia), Science Council of Japan (Japan), Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Italy), Indian National Science Academy (India), Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (Germany), Academiee des Sciences (France), Chinese Academy of Sciences (China), Royal Society of Canada (Canada), Academia Brasiliera de Ciencias (Brazil)
The Royal Society of Great Britain
US Federal Climate Change Science Program
American Meteorological Society
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Environmental Protection Agency
World Meteorological Organization

Here's the one organization that agrees with CATO.

American Association of Petroleum Geologists

Answer 4

basically locate training that comes from easily climatologists, ideally those registered with a countrywide society or different actual corporation. that's incredibly no longer that confusing to perceive a shill. everyone who makes use of the be conscious "hoax" with connection with worldwide warming is probable a simpleton, so steer away from them as a source altogether. A "hoax" is something carried out with subterfuge, often a one time journey, no longer a collaboration between hundreds of researchers that's been out interior the open for a protracted time. the opportunities of a secret plot between that a lot of human beings is particularly slender. that they had would desire to have been making plans it for some years. of path, that's how insane some conspiracy theories are. stay removed from any source that's strongly affiliated with the Republican party, as a majority of Republicans nonetheless have faith in Biblical creation and different long-debunked religious myths. you may tell plenty approximately somebody from what they have faith approximately technological understanding in maximum situations. AGW-denial is basically an offshoot of a pervasive anti-environmental mentality that would not understand nature and thinks mythical events like the Rapture are valid motives to eschew conservation.

Answer 5

Sorry to dissapoint you--bbutthat's nothing but a piece of propaganda. The oil companies funded it, as well as the "Cato Institute." No one takes that kind of thing seriously.

Answer 6

Ah, fun with statistics. So many obtuse and incomplete references (although lots of nice charts).

I tend to believe the 2500 scientific expert reviewers from 130 countries who form the IPCC, who research and analyze data from all sides of the issue, and who, after six years of research, prepared the Climate Change Assessment Report; rather than this one guy.

Answer 7

That's what science should be like: objective.
Currently funding and therefore politics drive research. Science has become corrupt.
Thanks!

Answer 8

I think that several of us old hippies have been talking about global warning for years, only now has it become politically correct to do so. We should have done more and desperately need to do more to protect the environment.

Answer 9

2 much 2 read