Its not just about global warming, yes or no. There are 2 core questions.
A. Is global warming - defined as weather events, etc. happening?
B. Are we (humans) the cause and what can we do if anything?
For the most part libs say its us- doom and gloom drive a hybrid today (which will do nothing, but anyway...) and cons say yes global warming is a phenomenon, BUT we are not the cause.
Please for the love of the Holy Father, the earth, and stars - wrap your little minds around the whole isssue.
2007-04-09 10:10:18 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Deal. Just as soon as the right admits the whole "hate for us freedom" line is BS to get people behind a mistake of a war.
2007-04-09 10:12:40 · answer #1 · answered by Perplexed 7 · 5⤊ 3⤋
The real issue is whether or not we should spend trillions of dollars to retool industry in this country based on a hunch that it could stop the warming trend.
Most of these people advocating the end of the world will come if we don't change things have no clue what it would cost to do it. In my mind it is simply idiotic to spend that much money on anything unless you are absolutely certain it will make a difference.
As has been said in the past... If global warming were a corporation you couldn't buy it because you can't do the due diligence necessary to prove you aren't buying a bill of goods. All the data has some element of self validation.
2007-04-10 18:23:52 · answer #2 · answered by u goin down 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was in Ireland this last week and I was talking to a tour guide who told me a lot about the history of Europe's weather. He told me a long time ago vikings were growing grapes in the Netherlands because the Earth was really hot, and then the Earth went through a huge climate change because the Sun was changing and it became too cold. He said this is just another change the sun was going through and yeah it is probably going to get hot again. He said humans might be helping it a little, but the Ozone layer is becoming stronger(Antarctica), which means it should be blocking more UV light, but the earth keeps getting hotter. So yeah, global warming is happening, but it's not because of humans. I lost all belief in what liberals say about global warming a long time ago, considering thirty years ago they said we were going to be having another ice age right now.
2007-04-09 17:57:06 · answer #3 · answered by abacus314 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
um.. I think maybe you missed part of the idea here.. Weather is a byproduct of global warming.. a hot or cold snap or bad run of tornadoes or hurricanes.. or droughts or excessive rain for that matter will be caused in different areas of the world.. but that is a BYPRODUCT.. that is not global warming. as for the second part, MOST scientists have no doubt we are contributing in at least some faction to global warming.. maybe we are 0.0000001% of the problem or maybe we are 100%.. that is what the debate is over.. anybody who says anything else is ignorant as to what is going on.. and I've seen more conservatives try to argue that global warming doesn't exist (it's been happening since the dawn of time people.. it does exist) than liberals.
2007-04-09 17:35:33 · answer #4 · answered by pip 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've done a great deal of research into both sides of the debate. Having seen every single existing argument against AGW theory fully refuted I am left with no choice but to accept the theory as valid.
I do not preach doom and gloom as you say, nor do I try to get people to drive hybrids. I simply try to get people to educate themselves on the issue and make an objective decision regarding it.
So much for sweeping generalizations.
2007-04-09 17:21:48 · answer #5 · answered by SomeGuy 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
will the right EVER understand that regardless of what it's caused by, lowering CO2 emissions would be a good thing?
god forbid we have clean air to breath.
i would like to purchase a hybrid, not because it would prevent climate change, but because it would save me money on gas and it is better for the environment.
2007-04-09 17:19:33 · answer #6 · answered by Paulien 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
We understand that there is no debate anymore. If we do not take strong urgent action on a global basis NOW, the earth we leave to our grandchildren will not be able to support the life we have enjoyed.
2007-04-09 17:15:07 · answer #7 · answered by Longhaired Freaky Person 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋
OK whole issue, look who benefits if we let the drat planet boil? Hmmm, factories no longer need to scrub their smokestacks, businessmen need to pay to properly dispose of their chemicals and poisons, they will have to pay for new research into cleaner fuels and renewable fuels, they will have to PAY. That's the whole issue, its not whether we are responsible for it, its who pays for it.
Its tied into pollution big time and the biggest polluters are businesses and they don't want to have to pay to be clean.
The temperature is going up and to think that in the 150 years of the industrial revolution we haven't added tons of stuff that was never intended to be added at these rates and that it has no effect on what we breathe, eat, and our climate, is nonsense.
So, who do we hurt when we ask to clean things up? Its not you and me, its big business who doesn't want the expense.
Wrap your tiny mind around this: look who pays, and you will find the ones who are telling you that its all a fairy tale.
2007-04-09 17:25:54 · answer #8 · answered by justa 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
no they wont, they will preach that we need more government regulations and everyone should drive a useless expensive hybrid (ugly), yet they are still driving around in their SUVs
2007-04-09 18:53:27 · answer #9 · answered by Jahpson 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Stephanie
2007-04-09 17:14:14 · answer #10 · answered by Amelie 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋