To those who believe in global warming?

Question

here is a video called the great global warming swindle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6IPHmJWmDk What do you think of this video?

Actually this is an eight part series. The link is part one. Look for the links on the side for the continuation. The theme of this documentary is that the historical data does not support the theory that there is a correlation between co2 and rise in temperatures. As for Al Gores theory that is also discussed. Is there any proof that the data in the video is wrong?

To those of you who disagree with the video, Why? What part of the video is false and why do you believe it is false?

Answer 1

I think it is excellent. I predict that the global warming lie will fall apart within the next year or so... there are too many loose ends being exposed for even the most brainwashed to believe in it.

Answer 2

There is a strong propaganda campaign growing to resist any action about global warming. This is an extreme, perhaps final, example of human stupidity.

It is a simple matter of physics that adding CO2 to the atmosphere tends to increase surface temperatures. It's as true as your getting warmer because you've put an extra blanket on your bed. The effect is cumulative as more and more CO2 is added to our atmosphere. The effect has been small so far, but it is inexorable, and if we humans extract and burn every bit of fossil fuel available, we may very well die by the billions.

We must stop burning fossil fuel sooner or later anyway, because it will run out. Better sooner than later, or it may kill us all. Note that I do not say "will certainly kill us", only that it is possible. Who are these idiot propagandists who want to take that risk?



P.S. What is wrong with the video? Mostly the video is a series of repetative arguments from authority: climate scientists, some good, some bad, saying negative things about aspects of the global warming paradigm out of context. The central substantive argument is that the fossil record is somewhat equivocal in the CO2/temperature correlation. The argument that CO2 does not cause warming does not logically follow from those data. Lots of different inputs drive global temperatures up and down over the millions of years. Most of these changes are slow, and some of them have little or nothing to do with CO2. What they demonstrate is that "the fossil record cannot demonstrate that CO2 drives temperature upwards".

We do not need such a demonstration from the fossil record, however; it's simply a matter of physics. CO2 is transparent to visible light and opaque in the infrared; the addition of any such gas to the atmosphere of a planet will, as an isolated factor, increase the temperature of the surface. There is no doubt about this, and there is little doubt as to the quantitative magnitude of the effect. Furthermore, there has never been a time in the Earth's history where hundreds of billions of tons of buried carbon were extracted from underground and burned, over a brief period of a few hundred years. The fossil record has nothing to say about such an experiment. The best models suggest that the result is bad, maybe very bad indeed.

Answer 3

To me the video looks like a commercial for a soap opera; nothing but a series of quotes taken out of context. Without knowing the complete conversations of the people being interviewed we cannot tell if their perspective on global warming is the perspective put forward by the interviewer.

Basically I don't trust anyone making a documentary who cuts and pastes snippits of several conversations together to make their point.
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Answer 4

a million) There HASN'T been a three hundred and sixty 5 days warmer than 1998. 2) perchance that may no longer honest for the reason that 1998 grow to be an El Nino 3 hundred and sixty 5 days. yet then, that's the two unfair to analyze median earnings or federal tax gross sales to 2000, the top of Greenspan's greatest money bubble, and maximum AGW supporters make that assessment interior the Politics section. 3) yet high quality - permit's use 2000. Temps have been flat for the reason that then. 2008 to this factor is on the bubble for "suitable 10 warmest years." 4) 2005 grow to be no longer warmer than 1998. purely GISS concluded that and GISS' hassle-loose is Northern Hemisphere-biased, for this reason land-temperature biased.

Answer 5

Why is this still an issue? Global Warming exists, and everyone knows it! In February 2007 a multinational effort by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has proved unequivocally that global warming does in fact exist....

http://www.ipcc.ch/press/prwg2feb07.htm

What more do you want?

Answer 6

Well, I think people who do not know any facts or people who are liars or fools are allowed free speech.

But the fact is, virtually every climatologist is in agreement about the basics of global warming. There are a few people who dispute it. Strangely enough, they are on the payroll of Exxon.

I you can make a video about how some people thing the world is flat. Does not make it true.

Answer 7

the Co2 gas im not sure what this will do in the future but it is surley doing something now...the scientist act like they know everything that is going on with global warming but there just as confused as we are...there wrong the video is wrong everything in that 9 minute video is absoultley wrong!

Answer 8

i agree that global warming has always been a part of this planet. but it is not the issue of wether it is true or not,cos personally,i think it'll happen one way or another.the issue has always been if the global warming is caused by humans...now that i watched it,i think i'm confident enough not to be guilty of breathing... ;-p

Answer 9

You'll want to check this out:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2031455,00.html

The "greenhouse effect" is mostly natural and caused mostly by water vapor. It's essential to our civilization.

"Global warming" is excessive greenhouse effect mostly caused by man's production of carbon dioxide. It's very dangerous to our civilization. Rich countries will spend a huge amount of money coping. In poor countries many people will die of starvation due to damage to agriculture. We need to reduce man's contribution to the greenhouse effect.

More info here:

http://www.pewclimate.org/global-warming-basics/

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

Skeptics cite individually the few scientists who disagree. But the above is the position of the vast majority of climatologists, because of the data in my second website citation. Proof:

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

EDIT: To answer your question, I believe the video is wrong because I believe the scientific data proves that it is wrong. The vast majority of scientists agree. The video just rounded up a few people who disagree, and in one case, apparently edited someone who agrees to make it seem like he didn't. Makes me wonder how many times they did that.

Answer 10

to brennan : soon there will be no scientists who disagree, the liberal politicians want to take away the accreditation of any scientist who doesnt agree with the idea of global warming.

Answer 11

Your just confusing them with facts they can't refute.