Is Global warming a big fat lie?

Question

in 250 AD (not that long ago) the River Thames in London froze over for 9 weeks. The Romans also grew grapes in England. Nobody pi55ed there pants about that sort of freaky weather back then.

Answer 1

My answer is maybe. If you look back in time, the earth went through ice ages and warmer periods. This maybe occurring again.

Answer 2

Global climate is a dynamic process, it is therefore always in a state of change, either getting hotter, cooler, wetter or dryer. It is also true that the average temperature has risen over the last 50 years. The real question is - how much of this, if any, is due to human activity. As an environmental biologist working in nature conservation, I meet geologists and meteorologists and other environmental scientists on a regular basis, and the vast majority of us are very sceptical about the human activity cause, and believe that it has only a minimal contribution to the natural fluctuations.
I was puzzled about this often quoted phrase 'most scientists believe' so I thought ' how do they know, there must have been a survey'. After extensive library research, I couldn't find any such survey. My conclusion is that this statement was invented by some politician or journalist, simply because they wanted it to be true.
The history of our planet teaches us that environments change, species adapt or die out. We should be learning to adapt, not trying to stop it.

Answer 3

Global warming is not a lie. Of course, it's not necessarily true that people have much to do with it. In the 1970s we were in a panic that we had global cooling. Thirteenth century Europe was affected by a little ice age. In fact there have been several little ice ages interspersed with general warming. In other words, global warming and cooling appears to be a natural cycle.

Gore conveniently tells only part of the truth in "An Inconvenient Truth." While the Arctic glaciers are melting at a faster than normal rate, Antarctica is freezing at a greater than normal rate. Last week the US Geologic Society announced they were sending scientists to each pole to study why one was thawing while the other was getting colder. In recent weeks more scientists have questioned how much, if any, impact man really has on the global warming cycle.

This is not to suggest that we shouldn't reduce greenhouse gasses and reduce pollution. We should do what we can to preserve or improve our environment. Just don't go into a panic with every pseudo-scientist says the sky is falling. Even Gore is not concerned enough to cut his personal contribution to greenhouse gasses. I have heard no response from him rationalizing why his 10,000 square foot that uses 20 times the energy of the average US home is good for the environment. One must conclude that Gore is spouting forth his own brand of gas and hot air.

Answer 4

i am a geologist and have studied this. we are currently in an icehouse condition and are and have been warming to a greenhouse condition. the earth's climate has moved back and forth from these conditions many times over its history. but these are the larger trends. warming and cooling trends happen on a smaller scale (both geographically and time wise) within the larger warming and cooling trends. there was in fact a mini ice age in europe a few hundred years ago. this can explain the trend you mentioned. these tend to be on scales of 10s of years not thousands like the bigger warming/cooling cycles. we are actually supposed to be warming--we are moving out of the last ice age which occured about 15,000 years ago. the question is, are we warming faster then we should be and if so, it is because of humans. personally i think so.

the funny thing is, in the early 90s when geologists and scientists first mentioned global warming, they got laughed at. Now, it is all anyone can talk about. everyone may be blowing it out of proportion. it is hard to tell. there is strong evidence that is in fact happening b/c of humans however. but one thing to be careful of in science is to not see what you want to see in the evidence (i.e. the very strong hurricane season a few seasons ago)

Answer 5

It does seem funny that there's such a fuss about climate change when tempreatures have been changing long before the Range Rover was launched.

Oh, and anyone remember the ozone layer? 10 or 20 years ago, the subject of soundbites and preaching from eco-nutters. Now, that hole that was rammed down our throats is now shrinking! Never heard any environmentalist mention the ozone layer in recent years, have you?

The new, trendy theory based around CO2 isjust that, a theory. However, there's also the more natural theories, regarding solar activity, which is rarely covered in the mainstream media. Why let the facts, or the full story, get in the way of a good headline, eh?

Answer 6

No, global warming is a fact. During the Wisconsonian Stage of the Pleistocene Epoch there was around two miles of glacial ice on top of Wisconsin. That ice has receded to its present state. If global warming weren't a fact then nobody would be living in Wisconsin, or for that matter Canada, today.

Answer 7

NO it is not a lie..it is a misdirection, or a selective use of data, but outright lie? no, because there might be some truth in it (and probably is a shred) and if the people saying it TRULY believe it then it couldn't be a lie (a lie requires one to know different than what they are saying)...and I believe that there are enough people that actually believe anything anyone with an official title tells them, that the ones spouting off truly do believe in global warming

Answer 8

In 1970 Greenpeace had a meeting about global cooling. In 2006 we realised that they were right - the effect is called global dimming - follow the link to find out moron this subject.

Maybe we should start giving them a bit more credit, instead of trying to discredit what they say - because ignoring it and hoping that it won't happen in our lifetimes hasn't proven too effective to date.

Answer 9

I don't know if what you say is true or not, but in 250 no one had a basis for comparison. It is now undeniable that the world is becoming warmer. It is debatable how long it will take for this to thoroughly upset the climate, and perhaps just what is causing it, but the fact is a fact.

Answer 10

99% or more of scientists that Global Warming is in fact occurring, although i should also add that at one time the most intellectually gifted people thought the world was flat. The answer- no one knows for sure!

Answer 11

every 15,000 years the same thing happens, see how we have fossils way inland that result from sea creatures, then the water was way inland, covered a lot of land.then it receeded, resulting in the current situation, now its returning same as the previous cycle, it all goes round and round.maybe we call it global warming this time but politicians will work it for their own ends and so many people are being hoodwinked into believing what they say, see all the raving people who go on and on about it and make it their crusade.its life, accept it.even cutting pollution wont stop it.