Questions for Republicans, Conservative?

Question

What % of what you hear/read about "Global Warming"or the environment do you believe?
What have Conservatives done to help protect the environment?
Is this something we should concerned about?

Answer 1

I believe that it is happening.

I don't believe that it is primarily man-made.

I wear the lib thumbs down as a badge of honor...because the one who offered it to me has not yet posted the proof that global warming is primarily man-made.

Answer 2

I realize that a lot of you are younger than I am. So you have probably grown up used to heaing about the environmental crisis du jour. But it was not alway like this. When the government started to provide research grants there began a competition for them. Well, if you are a scientist relying on your federal grant to make your living, you have to show some results or make sure yours is seen as the most important or risk getting cut back or cut altogether.

Thus began the Crisis Du Jour. We start hearing about some things that may be true and worth keeping an eye on but they are reported as a crisis. We hear about some things that are not really likely but they are reported as a crisis. We also hear about things that are complete fabrications but they are reported as a crisis, too.

I have seen deadline after deadline pass with absolutely nothing occurring despite all kinds of warnings. Here are a few:

The oceans of the world will be dead by 1990.
There will be a no food by 2000.
There is a new ice age occurring.
The world will be severly overpopulated by 2010.
The loss of ozone will cause a clamity by 2000.

You see you have not heard that the earth might be warming up. You haven not heard that one of the causes might be an excess of carbon dioxide. No. You have heard: THERE IS A SERIOUS GLOBAL WARMING CRISIS!!! IT IS CAUSED BY TOO MUCH CARBON DIOXIDE BUT ONLY THE CARBON DIOXIDE EMITTED BY MAN.

I am sorry but I am just not buying it. The sky is not falling. The world is not that fragile. Calm yourselves.
These people have alterior motive for making these claims.

No one wants to destroy the evnironment. The difference is we see a difference between respecting the environment and not even touching it.

The only thing you should be seriously concerned about is international terrorism. That poses a real risk every day.

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Answer 3

First I am a conservative not a Republican. As for Global Warming when I was a undergrad at NMSU in Organic Chemistry my professor was part of a group studying the ozone layer. At that time we knew where it was and knew rockets punched through it to reach space. The government gave the group $250,000 to study the ozone layer. That was about enough to build the instrument package but not near enough for the balloons and other equipment to get it to the ozone layer to do real studies. We set up test chambers with about $100,000, spent another $50,000 on experimental tests in those chambers. We found out that under certain laboratory conditions Chlorofluorocarbons will interact with ozone produced in a laboratory. They spent the other $100,000 publicizing the test in a laboratory slanting the data to get more money the next year. $5,000,000. Now we have outlawed cheap freon because they wanted to get a bigger grant next year. The science that the whole scare was and still is bogus, they never lied just never told the truth. Since then I have always found the underlying facts to be obscure at best and often outright lies. I live in the southwest and made my living in the oilfields. We have hand fed abandoned pronghorn antelopes, coyotes, a bobcat and had a badger take up residence under our doghouse. All the animals were raised in the wild and never caged.

Answer 4

Global Warming,
I don’t think humanity is the cause of global climate change (correct term). Throughout earths history climate change has occurred regularly, as a mater of fact we are a thousand years over due for an ice age. The evidence shows that we are contributing to the climate change but in such a small amount that with or without our CO2, climate change will occur. What we should really be worried about is the glacial advance that most computer models predict will occur in 2120 AD, that is the real problem.

Answer 5

I am a Republican who likes to read about a subject before I make up my mind and I have read a lot on this subject.

I believe that we are experiencing global warming but that it has nothing to do with the effects of humans and there's nothing we can do about it. I believe that the warming is a direct result of the approaching end of the last ice age, which was delayed by a comet that struck the Earth about 12,000 years ago and slowed down the warming trend by covering the Earth with volcanic ash.

I'm also quite upset that Fat Albert Gore has started this whole thing in a false and feeble attempt to jumpstart his failed political career. He's not serious about the subject at all. He lives in an energy-guzzling mansion while criticising President Bush, who lives in a ver energy-conservative home. Gore claims he offsets his piggish use of energy by purchasing carbon credits but he forget to tell you that he purchases them from his own company. He's running a huge ponzi scheme.

Answer 6

"Global Warming" is quickly becoming an outdated term. Even liberals are now using terms connotating change, or fluctuations. You see the more we research ecological history we are beginning to see that global warmings and coolings have happened for periods of time (sometimes decades or centuries) and then fluctuated in the other direction. So I do not lend much credence to what I hear about global warming in today's media.

Answer 7

Mankind seems terribly arrogant to think every change that occurs is the result of mankind.
In the long term, it's unusual for polar icecaps to exist on the planet. In the existence of the earth not having polar icecaps is the norm.
Do you know why the Vikings called Greenland Greenland when they discovered it?
Because it was green. It wasn't covered with ice as it is today.
Most of the climatic shift we are seeing today is due to the earth wobbling on its axis. This wobbling effect changes the pitch of the earth toward the sun. This change in pitch moves the climate zones. This change in pitch also changes the areas on the earth effected by the sun's gravitational pull.
This change in gravitational pull raises different parts of the earth's surface.
Now, the oceans spend their time filtering carbons out of the atmosphere. At the bottom of the deepest parts of the oceans, large seas of liquid methane exist. This methane is kept trapped and in a liquid state by the pressure of the ocean. If the sea floor is raised enough by the increased gravitational pull of the sun caused by an axis wobble, the trapped methane will vaporize, rise to the surface, and escape into the atmosphere, which raises the levels of CO2 in the air.
This causes the world to warm up. Millions of years will go by, and thre oceans will filter out the carbon from the air, retrapping it. The atmosphere cools, and icecaps form.
And this goes on and on.

Answer 8

0% GW is an unproven idea. I have noticed media outlets and government starting to call it what it actually is which is Climate change. Climate change is real. It has happened throughout the history of this planet. The effect of man is un-measurable. Fact is the Sun is a star. If you look up at night and see the white twinkley things, those too were suns. They twinkle now because they have used up their energy and blew up. our sun will do the same thing. It will continue to get hotter and hotter until eventually....poof. The same scientist first proclaiming GW are now saying the effects may not be reversible. Science is not a consensus. just ask Pluto.

Answer 9

Being Republican or Conservative has nothing to do with opinions on global warming. Each person has their owns views on the subject. The earth has gone in cycles since the beginning of time. Maybe this one degree increase is part of the natural cycles of the earth. I can't say if we should be concerned. I do believe we should be kinder to the earth in regards to plastics, fuel emissions and nuclear waste.

Answer 10

I believe that Global Warming is a questionable issue. But I think the free market and trade would be able to help solve many of those problems. I truely support alternatives and find them great for the economy. But I oppose govt regulation on things that people are buying or products that companies have been using for years.

Answer 11

I believe very little of it. Liberals have a habit of using "emotional issues" to gather votes and further their agenda. There is a lot of money in global warming such as funding for science to "prevent" it and awarding grants to foundations. And when liberals award grants, they get votes. There is a lot of carbon production that is not a result of man. We may contribute some to the total world production, but I think we would be a rather vain species to think that we alone can cause climate change on a massive scale. As to what have conservatives done: we have pushed through legislation for cleaner emissions and alternative fuels just like dems and libs. However, we are not after the "emotional votes" and taxing and spending on grants to get votes.