Why do you fight against it?

Question

Why do so many of you fight against the idea that all of the pollution humans are putting into our atmoshpere is having NO effect on our climate?

Answer 1

It makes them feel better for spending $90 to fill up the tank of their oversized SUV. You know, the one with the yellow ribbon magnet on the back that says "I support the troops who are fighting to keep the tank of my SUV filled, no matter what the cost"

Answer 2

1. No scientific consensus. Many prominent scientists in the field have reviewed the data, reviewed the climate models and call it... a load of crap.

2. Those same scientists have been asking for open scientific debate about this for years. But the proponents of human GW refuse. Why would any scientist hide from open debate, unless their data or conclusions were known to be wrong?

3. The human GW hysteria is supported by politicians and political action groups, and there is more empty rhetoric (like "why do conservatives hate the environment?") than fact put out on their side. When only GW supporting scientists and even more bureaucrats and politicians are invited to the UN conference on GW, everybody should be alarmed, but only some of us are.

4. Because it makes no sense to take actions like Kyoto, which are knee-jerk, would cause great economic harm, and would have the meager result of decreasing greenhouse gases by less than 1/2% in 50 years. It is a sham based on fraudulent science.

Answer 3

The question is whether the CO2 is having a material effect.

There's no tangible evidence that it is.

Keep in mind that we've increased the atmospheric CO2 level by 1/11,000th of the atmosphere.

Nobody is against regulating actual pollutants - we DO, in fact it was a Republican, Nixon, who STARTED doing that! So this new argument of the eco-freaks, this non-admission admission, this "well even if we are wrong about global warming, don't you still want clean air?" question is a non-sequitur. The air and water are cleaner than they were 6 years ago, 26 years ago, 36 years ago.

The question at hand is whether CO2 is a pollutant.

Not the same question at all.

Answer 4

The problem is that we don't know the entire effect of "pollution" that has an effect on our climate. Volcano's have a bigger effect. For God's sake, I can't even get a decent weather prediction for the week. What in the hell makes you think scientists know the exact effect of "all the pollution"? I've read where carbon dioxide is considered pollution so my suggestion to all the nit wit global warming alarmists is drop dead because they expell carbon dioxide every time they exhale. How do you like them apples?

Answer 5

I say it is having no effect because it isn't.

First of all, there aren't enough of us on the planet. If you packed us all together at the density of Los Angeles, we'd fit in New Jersey.

Second, climate is huge. The planet is huge. It's a huge cleaning system. That horrible CO2 that the wackos want to eliminate is what trees and plants breathe and convert into Oxygen, of which I am majorly fond.

Third, 98% of the "greenhouse gases" are.... water vapor. If you totally eliminated humanity from the planet, it wouldn't have any impact on the greenhouse effect.

Fourth, there HAS to be a greenhouse effect. If there wasn't, the same amount of energy striking the Earth as light would bounce right back into space as light. The greenhouse effect is why we don't have a sheet of ice covering the world.

Answer 6

I think that the people pushing the GW issue are being alarmist for political gain. I will not say that we don't contribute some small amount to the issue but if you look at world history even before man was here the science shows that global temp changes have always gone in cycles. Cleaning our environment should be an issue we all care about but preventing things like oil drilling in Alaska for this unproven concern is not smart and especially when you look at the lack of serious environmental impact caused by the drilling which has been going on there since the 1970s.

Answer 7

No effect or measureable effect.

Need some proof first and secondly when those who make the most noise about are making a killing off on selling the idea climate change is caused by man. That makes me question them. Just as you question oil companies who doubt the cause is man-made.

Also when you asking only certain countries to cut back and not resistrict other that are pollutating more.

I am all in favor of conservative and being better stewards of this world but don't use lies to make me.

Answer 8

Try asking your liberal buddies. I haven't heard of one person that says it doesn't have an effect on the climate but I have seen many on these boards TRY to say it and they were all "liberals". The problem is people expect the US to do everything when other countries have been putting that crap in the air for hundreds of years. Hell even cave man burned fires that put that crap in the air but everyone seem to think that the US is the one responsible for it.

Answer 9

It's not about the science.

Global Warming has become a political debate. The concept and the political motivation is being attacked (by some) because that's easier than actually studying the science and debating the issue on its merits.

If there is "no effect" (because it has nothing to do with us), then we don't have to worry about what the effect actually is, or how to stop it.

It's pure denial of something they don't want to even consider.

Answer 10

Its not that it is having no effect- its that it is having very little effect. If a volcano such as mt st helens can erupt and put 1000% more pollution in the air at that one moment then man has in one century, it kinda tells ya something.

Answer 11

I think it all comes down to fear. It is so much easier to believe that GW is just a Democratic ruse than to have to accept that man's greed and selfishness could possibly be bringing about the end to our planet. Those same people are also finding it impossible to believe that the US will ever be anything other than the world's greatest superpower. They can't imagine not being number one!