Any republicans in here who believe that global warming is a problem?

Question

I'm an Independent who leans towards the conservative side somewhat. But I do believe that global warming is a problem! The only argument is: What is causing it? Is it us? Or is it something else. Without a doubt, our environment is much more polluted than it was 100 years ago. I hope that one day we can all use alternative sources of energy to help the problem with pollution. Even though I cannot say for sure that we are the source of global warming I know without a doubt that we are the problem when it comes to polluting rivers and lakes and ect. I would assume that this could not help global warming for sure!

Answer 1

Yes, and you would think that fiscal conservatives would naturally be for renewable, conservative energy policies. Neocons are not conservative though, they are fiscal liberals.


Example: Bush.

Answer 2

Its such a problem that the temperature may have risen 6/10th of a degree in the last century. I say may because its likely that the actual rise in temps is caused by the Urban Heat Effect where most monitoring stations are located and not by a rise in Global Temps. The Antarctic Peninsula is losing ice, while the Antarctic Interior is gaining ice faster than the peninsula is losing it. Greenland glaciers are retreating...while others are growing. In Oregon the temperatures were much higher on average during the depression and there were no glaciers on My Hood. Now there are several year round glaciers on Mt Hood.

I firmly believe the planet is warming. There is NO evidence that is being caused by man or if it is the extent that man is responsible for the warming. There has been increased activity from the sun. Is that the reason? No one knows. Yes our environment is more polluted than 100 years ago, but it is much less polluted than 25 years ago. There were much higher temps back in the 30's than there are now. Put all that information together and prove to me that we are the cause.

Doing away with pollution is best for all of mankind, but using the unproven GW argument as the basis for it is disingenuous at best and an outright lie at its worst.

Answer 3

The world has gone from too warm to too cold to too
warm etc. several times in years past. It is not something
anyone can do to change it. People have never been able
to do anything about weather or climate, no matter how
hard they've tried. If less emissions and alternative sources
were the answer, the whole world would have to change, not
just America. By the time Algore and his friends have spent
millions of dollars and wasted time on this subject, we may
experience global cooling. I was beginning to think this
February might be the beginning of that path. Actually, Bush
did not cause this problem. Algore just needs to be in the
spotlight for some cause and he picked global warming.

Answer 4

I think global warming is real, I also think it is a natural phenomenon that occurs in a cycle. Hot swings to cold and cold swings to hot. However I think we are adding and perhaps speeding up the process with our pollution. I also think if I am right and most repuglicans are wrong then we need to do something to cut the emissions of carbon into the atmosphere. I think if I am wrong and the repuglicans are right then the worst thing that could happen is we get a cleaner earth for our children and grand children.

Answer 5

I do, to a point. I'd rather we avail ourselves of all foreign oil consumption. If development of alternative fuels achieves both that goal AND helps our environment, so be it.

Our air is a lot cleaner from particulate matter today than 100 years ago, though we probably put a lot more CO2 into it now.

We're sure not getting help from China. The Yellow River is dying, rapidly.

Answer 6

my real question is weather advancing technology to compensate for increased carbon emissions, and decreasing human impact on the earth is, or ever has been a problem? cant it only benefit us and our children. the sacrifice of the earth for the economy is irrational, for would we really have an economy without a place to live and survive. it goes against all reasoning that we should allow such a travesty to continue, weather it be our fault or not, it is our plant and we need to work to preserve it for future generations.

i being only 15, and outraged that the generation ahead of me has left me a huge debt, a close to non functioning earth, and problems beyond belief. It is left for us, the children to clean, without the thought of the implications of future generations growing up without forests, or rivers, or going to the beach. it is important to not only think of your selves, but think of those who cant defend themselves for they are not alive yet, however your decisions today directly effect their life in the future.

"Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W. B. Yeates

"the question is not weather we can afford to [stop global warming], it is weather we can afford not to" Al Gore

Answer 7

I think it is a big problem.