Global warming: What are we to make of the new report by hundreds of scientists?

Question

and governments of 120 countries with thousands of pages of research?
Is this a new liberal conspiracy?
Is this more new world order?
Is this more smoke and mirrors?

Should we continue our ostrich ways & bury our head in the sand & continue repeating "the world is flat,the world is flat" ?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/07/science/earth/07climate.html?th&emc=th

longtime pro-science Goldwater conservative / libertarian & 6th generation Texan

From Science Magazine, hardly a political rag: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/406/1

Answer 1

While I don't want to be run around by false facts yelling "the sky is falling", at some point, I have to also believe that the actions of humans, when done en masse, impacts our environment.
I'm starting to feel concerned and worry that our belief of environmental supremacy might be a problem. How much of our resistance to change about the burning of fossil fuels and other pollutants is simply that we don't want to be inconvenienced? For both political and environmental reasons, I think it makes sense to look for new sources of fuels and to limit pollutants.
On the other hand, like I said, I'd be very angry and disappointed if I found out that our leaders were purposely leading us astray on this issue. I really want the truth and nothing but the truth. I hope more than believe that is what our government is giving us!

Answer 2

Global warming is clearly a hot topic right now and will be for the next 50 to 100 years as temperatures go up. This has happened many times in the earth's history. It's called ice ages and there have been many of them. Earth will warm up until it hits a breaking point and then everything will freeze up except along the equator. Again the earth has done this many times. The difference this time is that humans have sped the time frame of this coming ice age by over 1,000 years because of the amount of pollutants we have put into the atmosphere in the last 150 years. The only thing we can really do other than curbing the amount of crap we release into the atmosphere is to invent a way to take CO2 out of the atmosphere. This will be the only way to reverse what we have done. This invention does not exist yet and so whomever invents this will be responsible for saving earth from the very people who are destroying it.

Answer 3

Do we have a way in preventing global warming from getting worse? It's quite an impossible feat. Even if there were facts about the constant worsening of global warming and the increase in sea level due to the melting of the ice in North Pole, do everyone on this world really care?
It's just too late for that. We as humans are too dependant on the things we need. Without factories, how would we get the things we demanded in life? We also loved to use air-conditioning, aerosols and refrigerators that releases CFC into the atmosphere. Petrol and diesel are being used to supply power for motorized vehicles. If we don't have that items, I don't think it can solve global-warming efficiently.
We cannot stop global warming, but we can prevent it from worsening. But how can we do that if the whole world do not care? I guess the only way is through union with countries around the world, but not all of them pay great importance in maintaining their surroundings.

Answer 4

The real question is how many scientist did world leaders trash publicly and discounted their predictions twenty years ago? Which "disaster" will finally bring the world up to speed and cause less spending on wars, and begin spending money to protect the human residents of the world. Which country wants to go first?

As for 'smoke and mirrors,' just watch the number of nationally 'large' wildland fires and the management resources dedicated to stopping them. This should be a great measuring tool for those who want to pretend global warming is just liberal propaganda. The Forest Service has been keeping records on acreage burned for years. If the upcoming fire season surpasses last year, game on!

Answer 5

Growing up, I thought the anti-science movement was part of history, that human progress proceeded along a straight line, and that only a nuclear war would push humankind back to the dark ages. The answers here clearly show that religion and political propaganda can have the same effect.

Answer 6

There still has been NO DIRECT link found between humans and climate change.
Whether or not knee-jerk reaction, anti-capitalist regulation will have any affect is NOT known.
No matter what side of the debate you are on- The link to human activity has not been made. Until it is, penalizing wealthy industrial nations and giving pollution waivers to poor third world countries is NOT the answer.

Answer 7

It's happening, head in sand or not. Did anyone see 20/20 last week? They were measuring glaciers and one was 90 feet lower. There were huge rivers that used to be ice. Several huge pieces of ice fell off just during the taping. I don't like Al Gore, but everyone should watch "An Inconvenient Truth."

Answer 8

So lets all buy a bigger and more powerful gas-guzzling SUV to celebrate this conspiracy together!

If you have extra money, you might want to also buy a speed boat because we will all need it just in case the stupid liberals are right about rising sea levels!

Answer 9

The data clearly shows that global warming is real and that we all must do our part to stop it. The 'champions' of global warming have provided us with numerous examples of what to do. Therefore, we should all fly around in private jets, live in large, energy hungry houses and drive huge gas-guzzlers. Only then can the world deal with this most important problem.

Answer 10

If you where fighting for more liberal scientific funding you'd be on your global warming soap box too, when you get right down to it, its all about the money folks!

PS, Science isn't exactly a big paying career field, they get money from grants :)