global warming?

Question

global warming is a natural phenomenum,and gordon brown putting up our taxes is not going to effect it one iota.its a good job the labour party wernt around at the end of the ice age,they would have cleaned right up.still with all the money they make they can finance their wars and keep carbon dioxide levels down by killing humans..do you believe the global warming propaganda??

Answer 1

There were no things to increase Carbon Dioxide levels during the ice age. Weather it's Global Warming or whatever, we're doing something to screw up our environment.

Answer 2

Scientists are again in disagreement about something they don't know enough about - so what's new about that, didn't they disagree about the world being round?

Look guys, I sense some strong feelings in the answers I have just read, so I appeal to you, let's not get "hot under the collar" with those who don't agree with your opinions - that's not the British way! We all have to consider the facts and in my opinion (if not yours) they don't present a clear enough case either way. If I can summarise what I have learnt from various, "responsible" TV reports:
1. The earth is warming and scientists don't know exactly why that is or how hot it will become, but they do know that it has happened before, several times - and that it has always cooled down again....
2. A few years back scientists told us the earth was cooling and they didn't know exactly why that was or how cold it would get, but they did know it had happened before, several times - and that it had always warmed-up again....
3. There is more CO2 given off by nature every day than we humans can ever create. Even at our current high level we are adding only a minute part to the total emissions of CO2
4. The amount of CO2 being given off by nature is increasing because of global warming (it's not the cause of it) and the added emissions MAY add to global warming in the future but we are not sure by how much. Also, it has happened before and Earth has somehow coped with it - but how and why, we don't know....
5. The amount of green-house gases, including CO2, we create are contributing to global warming - BUT we don't know by how much. We also don't know what was the cause of global warming in the past. During the Industrial Revolution, when the Victorians were globally polluting the atmosphere with their heavy CO2 emissions, the Earth was going through a period of getting COLDER. They witnessed some of the coldest winters on record, probably because the sun couldn't shine through their clouds of CO2 based killing smog!

Whatever you make of all those facts, it's still a good bet that reducing our green-house gases WILL make a difference, We don't know by how much or whether it will be THE important difference that would turn things around for the sake of future humanity. Is it something that we can gamble on?
Guys, as the saying goes, "the jury is still out on this one" and we should all realise that a decision that we could all stand by just isn't going to be given!

My opinion - we have to stay confused until we know something better than we do at present. Meanwhile, all of us, at least, those that have the power and wealth to do so, have to behave like responsible humans. We MUST cut our greenhouse emissions wherever it is possible to do that! Doing anything less than that would be irresponsible.

Yes, that also means we have to support ANY political moves that target a reduction in our greenhouse emissions - whichever party proposes them.

Answer 3

1) The government like all governments will take as much as they dare, they do not need a propoganda lie.

2) The scientific community is so big that if this theory was wrong it would have been killed in the 70s.

3) A channel 4 documentary full of bad science (how does the CO2/temp link disprove global warming?/they used data and interviews recorded in the 80s and passed them off as modern opinion/they altered the time axis on a temperatures against time graph/one scientist claims to have been misrepresented by the program) is not worth believing over the rest of the scientific community.

4) I agree the UK's current military action is a waste of lives and tax-payers money.

Answer 4

If you want to make an informed decision about global warming then you need to educate yourself as much as possible. A great site for finding real scientific data is www.scirus.com - check out what the scientists think before you make your desision. Having studied the evidence quite a lot, personally I'd say global warming definitely is happening, but the question is really are we dealing with it in the right way? I don't really think green taxes will help at all, and to be honest it's probably too late to do anything about it anyway (though we prob should stop making a bad situation even worse!). Environmental refugees already exist and the situation is getting worse and worse for many people in the world who are being left with nothing, so really our response to global warming shouldn't be just to put up taxes and hope it all works out for us, but to stop ignoring the human costs of global warming and take steps to adapt to the climate change - firstly by taking care of the people who are dying because of it! (btw the world food program says that 23,000 people are dying every day from hunger, but we throw away more than enough food to save the life of every one of them - when are our governments gonna wake up and stop being so selfish?!?)

Answer 5

Reading the popular media can lead a person to conclude that "global warming" is:
o- either a hoax to promote business opportunities, politicians agenda and scientists grant money.....
OR
o- a problem related to overpopulation, industrialization and fossil fuels whose solution options lie in solar power, wind power, geothermal power and nuclear fusion....

However, the correct answer may be altogether different:

NASA has released never-before-seen images that show the sun's magnetic field is much more turbulent and dynamic than previously known. The international spacecraft Hinode, formerly known as Solar B, took the images. Hinode was launched Sept. 23 to study the sun's magnetic field and its explosive energy. National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists said the spacecraft's uninterrupted high-resolution observations of the sun are expected to have an impact on solar physics comparable to the Hubble Space Telescope's impact on astronomy. "For the first time, we are now able to make out tiny granules of hot gas that rise and fall in the sun's magnetized atmosphere," said Dick Fisher, director of NASA's Heliophyics Division. "These images will open a new era of study on some of the sun's processes that effect Earth, astronauts, orbiting satellites and the solar system." Hinode is a collaborative mission led by
the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and includes the European Space Agency and Britain's Particle Physics Astronomy Research
Council. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., managed the development of the Hinode's scientific instrumentation provided by industry and federal agencies.

>>> as regards alternative energy methods, I favor development of the technology for nuclear fusion using lunar Helium 3

Answer 6

Global warming is not caused by cars and industry,
It is just a natural change in temp which happens every thousand or so years, the west are using global warming to raise extra money and to try and stop less well off countries from developing, there was an agreement with all western countries to raise extra money through scare tactics.

Answer 7

The climate is always changing. I believe nature will sort the planet out by itself without taxing us. Animals, including us humans, usually reside in areas that can sustain life. If these become uninhabitable due to flooding or high temperatures then they just have to move. I can envisage a huge loss of life in the future as nature's way of redressing the balance of an overpopulated planet. This would reduce our demands on the planet's resources and nullify our contribution to global warming.

Answer 8

I believe that the vast amount of warming of our atmoshere is due to the sun. Back in the late 90's it was reported that there would be increased Solar activity starting around 2002 and lasting for about 15 to 20 years, it is this activity that is causing the increase in global temperatures we are experiencing now. Solar activity itself is a cyclical event and accounts for the warming and cooling of our planet. I agree that the polution we cause does need to be dealt with - after all this is the air that we breathe in. The quality of the air does affect our general health, but sticking it to us with claims that we are responsible for global warming is an absolute con.

Answer 9

Have you seen the Great Global Warming Swindle?

It provides the facts facts, not hype, about Global Warming

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4520665474899458831&q=great+global+warming+swindle&hl=en

Answer 10

Global warming is being used as a way of raising taxes....but don't be fooled into thinking that global warming is not happening! if you keep yourself well informed and educated you can clearly see it's not propaganda....