People actually believe GLOBAL WARMING IS FALSE?????

Question

There is no debate. The never has been a debate. The info about other sources is a debunking of info by petro companies...

is it me or most the poeple who think this are gore bashers and support bush? oil? hmmmmmmm....

the point in time you are refering too...with great britain having crocodiles...they were also closer to the equator...

CO2 ACCELERATES global warming...this is a fact...

humans increase CO2 in our atmosphere...how can this fact be debated? by misleading info?

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/05/some_like_it_hot.html
http://www.sitewave.net/news/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raymond-j-learsy/oil-companies-are-now-deb_b_29633.html?p=1

bob- thank you, you responded very well mannered and provided good links and info. It is very well apreciated.

Answer 1

Denying global warming is caused by man incorrect. Here's why.

There is a huge body of scientific data and analysis supporting the main things about global warming. It was produced by thousands of scientists working independently around the world. It all says the same basic things. Global warming is real, it's caused by us, and it presents an extreme danger to our well being.

The idea that 99% of the climatologists in the world are wrong, neglect obvious natural causes as possibilities, or fake the data to get money, or engaged in a massive environmentalist conspiracy, is just ridiculous.

Denying global warming in the face of this is like denying evolution, or that we went to the moon, or saying you have a perpetual motion machine. It's not scientific. It's an "evil conspiracy" theory that has no basis in fact. Major Republican political leaders, including McCain and Bush, accept global warming as real. They don't get their science from Al Gore, they get it from the best scientists in the world. They've heard all the arguments on the other side, and they don't buy them. The US military is seriously making plans for dealing with worldwide chaos, if we don't reduce it.

The data disproving the alternative theories is all over the web. Here's one place where a little of it is collected:

http://info-pollution.com/warming.htm#WEB

Here's the accepted truth about global warming, with major data backup, and having gone massive review. It's actually very conservative, the majority of scientists think global warming will be worse. But this is what thousands of climatlogists all accept as true.

http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

It's understandable why some people deny it. It's similar to other things they (generally conservative) hear from people they don't like (liberals and environmentalists). It's scary because it demands that we work hard to reduce its' effects. But global warming is reality. Denying reality is done all the time by people. But it's a very dangerous way to live.

Answer 2

Yes I too appreciate Bob's efforts on quite a number of recent questions. I tend to read things, note the presentation of the data, whether the arguments seem valid and complete and the repute of the organisation who puts them out and I have seen a large number of such reports. But I don't remember often the exact details of data or make a log of URLs. It is useful that there are competent people who do and respond to questions on climate change although often their efforts are not appreciated by people who shoot from the hip and latch onto 'junk science'. Unfortunately it seems that a lot of people actually do believe that global warming is false or deny man's substantial contribution to it.

Answer 3

Its not that they neccessarily believe its false, its that they don't believe it is caused by mankind. The climate goes through cycles, we are currently in a warming cycle between ice ages. Before mankind was on this earth Great Britain had palm trees and croccodiles. In the medieval warm period temperatures in Northern Europe were about 3 or 4 degrees warmer than they are now. If global warming was caused by man how come things weren't much worse in the early 20th century when cities like Pittsburgh, Detroit, Birmingham England all had permenant black clouds of pollution over them? Yes, there are many glaciers that are receding, but there have been glaciers receding since the end of the last ice age. The ice cap on Greenland is actually increasing and there are glaciers in South America, New Zealand and Antarctica that are growing. Its all part of natures way of balancing things out.

People like Al Gore would take us back to the dark ages with the policies they want to implement. And his idea of purchsing carbon offsets works great for people as rich as he is. He can use huge amounts of power ($2500 per month worth) and still buy carbon offsets, but most people like myself, have very little money left over after we pay our power bills. I'm not saying we shouldn't try to conserve, I think we should, but we need to be realistic about the whole thing.

Answer 4

"There is no debate. The never has been a debate. " That's not how science works. People can'd just declare something to be true and then burn skeptics as heretics. It's incumbent upon you to prove your hypothesis is correct. Not just declare it so and etch it in stone.

Answer 5

People can believe whatever they want to believe.
I don't know of anyone personally, but I am sure someone must believe it is false.

Global Warming is real...
The real debate is whether man is the cause.