Global warming, could it be a regular cycle that repeats in a longer time frame than we have records?

Question

Ice ages and warming cylces, can they be longer than human history. Can Al Gore possibly be onto something?

Answer 1

No Al Gore cannot possibly be onto anything other than a giant fraud to make money!

The idea that there is an imminent impending global disaster resulting from human actions is a complete and utter lie, plain and simple. Either Al Gore is an unbelievably stupid man or he’s laughing all the way to the bank at the stupidity of the general public that’s willing to pay money to see his movie. “An Inconvenient Truth” would be more appropriately titled “A Convenient Lie” – convenient for Al Gore anyway who has now produced the third highest grossing documentary of all time – over $24,000,000 to date ($47 million world-wide). That doesn’t include the additional unjust profits earned from book sales and speaking engagements.

His film would lead you to believe that every single scientist even remotely qualified to study global climate change agrees that disaster is imminent and that humankind is the direct cause. The reality of the situation is quite the opposite – most qualified scientists vehemently disagree with this assertion.

It is unbelievable how many people believe and treat this complete and utter fallacy as fact. Read blogs, newspaper articles, Internet forums – a startling number of people have bought this lie hook line and sinker.

I’m sure most would argue that even if the science is flawed, certainly it’s a good idea for us all to take it a little bit easier on the planet and with that I would most certainly agree. However, not only is Al Gore and company all wrong on the cause of global climate change (or perhaps even the very existence of global climate change) but their proposed solution could potentially be harmful to the environment.

The problem is that Al Gore and others have somehow, absent virtually any credible scientific evidence whatsoever, latched onto the idea that man-made CO2 (carbon dioxide) is the single biggest threat to environment. Credible research actually shows quite the opposite, it may in fact be true that additional carbon dioxide in the environment is beneficial to the Earth’s entire ecosystem stimulating the growth of additional plant and animal life. Carbon dioxide is not a noxious chemical but rather a relatively benign compound that is either used or released through virtually any organic process. Humans and animals breathe in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, plants ingest carbon dioxide and expel oxygen and yes carbon dioxide is a bi-product of burning fossil fuels.

Regardless of the facts stated above, man-made carbon dioxide is actually not even a significant percentage of the carbon dioxide found within the Earth’s atmosphere.

I don’t want to reinvent the wheel and I will link to all the material that supports what I’m saying, as if it’s not bad enough that Al Gore is propagating a complete and total lie, his proposed solution to a non-existent problem is potentially harmful to the environment.

Please don’t misunderstand, I don’t dispute that there aren’t many things humans do that are very detrimental to the Earth’s environment, however there is NO credible scientific data to suggest that excessive release of CO2 into the environment is one of them.

If you want to help the environment focus on doing something that actually helps the environment rather attempting to solve a problem that may or may not exist by doing something that will not help (and might hurt) the situation.

Don’t take my word for it, here’s 17,200+ scientists (and counting) that agree there is no element of truth to Gore's film:
http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p357.htm...

Here is the letter sent on behalf of the petition signers requesting that our government not sign the Kyoto treaty to reduce C02 emissions because it will not help anything and in fact may be detrimental to the environment and to developing nations:
http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p41.htm...

Here is supporting peer-reviewed­ research:
http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm...

Here are a few articles from the Canada Free Press shooting down all the Global Warming hype:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/harr...
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/harr...
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/harr...

Don’t be another jackass out there campaigning for a pointless solution to a problem that has little to no hard scientific evidence suggesting it even exists. If you want to be an activist step one is finding a problem that actually exists and step two is finding a solution that is not only realistic but will actually resolve the problem. Al Gore and friends probably failed at step one and certainly failed at step 2.

Even if reducing CO2 emissions is not detrimental to the environment it is unlikely to do anything beneficial either. Mandating reduction of CO2 emissions will most certainly be harmful economically, especially to developing nations that cannot afford or do not otherwise have access to alternative technologies. How Ironic, Al Gore, liberals and all the other Hollywood idiots riding the global warming bandwagon are usually the same bleeding hearts lecturing us on how we need to help developing nations. Not only that but other dishonest frauds are taking advantage of the general public's belief in this carbon dioxide disaster myth to get rich by selling “carbon-credits.” Check it out. http://www.terrapass.com/.

Don’t be a sucker – next time some jerkoff celebrity, former politician or other talking head tries to sell you something demand some hard scientific evidence.

Answer 2

Global Warming/Climate Change is not as big a problem as some would have you to believe. A recent article in the New York Times has even asked Al Gore to stop all the hype:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/science/13gore.html?_r=1&oref=slogin That same article talks about Al Gore's claim that the oceans could rise 20 feet is exaggerated by 18.08 FEET! The latest UN study on the subject says the seas could rise a MAXIMUM of 23 inches. Al was only 18.08 FEET off. That, my freind IS hype...

If you look up any global temperature chart on the net, you'll find the earth's temperature has only increased by about 6/10 of one degree (C) - that's 1.1 degree (F), in the last 125 years. So yes, the globe is warming up, but it's not overheating like some would have you to believe. http://data.giss.nasa.gov:80/gistemp/2005/2005cal_fig1.gif

The latest research shows that the methane from cows and pigs is a major factor in the increase of "heat trapping gas". It's actually 23 times more potent as a heat trapping gas than is carbon dioxide. http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change/science/other_gases According to the newest UN report on Global Warming, "Livestock are responsible for 18 per cent of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together." http://news.independent.co.uk:80/environment/article2062484.ece

So if Al Gore and all the alarmists really want to do something about climate change, they MUST become vegetarians and shut down cow and pig farms. I mean seriously, if they truly believe that global warming is as disastrous as they are preaching then they need to stop eating meat, period! I doubt that will happen. If not, then they are the hypocrites that some of us already suspect they are.

Also Al Gore preaches to you to conserve, but he does not practice it himself. He uses 20 times more energy in his Nashville mansion than the national average. http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/main/article.php?article_id=367
One thing he has not learned is that you MUST practice what you preach... at some point you will get caught as he has.

Answer 3

cycles of cold & warm have been going on for eons. Whose is to say that the cycles are both large and small and intertwine. I know two thing - many things that we do have the opposite effect on what we want & we can't predict the weather. Al Gore is just a over puff up ego manic. He preaches global warming for the masses and contributes more polution than those he cautions about. Earth cycles of severe weather, ice ages, having tropics in the polar regions will continue for many years more than we humans will remain on Earth. Hopefully we will learn more basic knowledge than just screaming that the sky is falling

Answer 4

The scientific community has been analyzing CO2 concentrations for a long time now, and we have data that goes well beyond 100 years ago, well beyond a million years ago for that matter.

"Although contemporary CO2 concentrations were exceeded during earlier geological epochs, they are likely higher now than at any time during the past 20 million years." From this website http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/107.htm#331

Also see graphs of early CO2 concentrations at wikipedia with an analysis of data collection methods. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide#Variation_in_the_past

Although there is controversy of temp. leading CO2 or vice versa, the scientific community generally agrees, at least, that we do have high CO2 concentrations. They disagree on other aspects of why and what can be done or not done.

Answer 5

Climatologists have studied those cycles and the present data. And they have concluded that this is not natural, that it is mostly caused by man.

A summary of the data and the analysis is here;

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

A study of what most scientists think is here:

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

Warming can be caused by CO2. But warming also releases CO2 from places like the ocean. Which is why CO2 follows natural warming rather than leading it. That doesn't affect the conclusion that this particular warming is caused by CO2. More about that here:

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=13

Answer 6

Gore may be onto something, but there is evidence that CO2 change follows temperature change, rather than preceding it, and if that is the case, the whole Chicken Little scenario falls apart.

Answer 7

ABSOLUTELY! Finally someone else who shares the same opinion as me. There is no way in hell that it is humans fault that the temperature is rising. We only have records dating back as far as 100 years ago. It has to be a continuous cycle of hot then cold then hot then cold.

Answer 8

You're attempting to dismiss something by appealing to something unknown, unproven and unmeasurable. And then you all dump on Gore for being irrational... The power of corporate propaganda!

Answer 9

I think not nothing normal about global warming

Answer 10

Al Gore is on something, my guess is acid.. is that close enough?