Do you think Global warming is Political Propaganda or has real merit?

Answer 1

Both.
Though there seems to be some indication that there is, indeed, some warming taking place, it has not been directly connected to human activity. Therefore, the 'hype' about human caused CO2's, pollution, etc. is premature.
If we don't know for sure that humans are the cause, how can we think humans have the solution?

Answer 2

The politicians are treating it like a political football.

However, the reality is in the scientific reviews like the IPCC reports and peer-reviewed journals.

Global Climate Change is happening. It's also been fairly well documented that humans are significant contributors at this point.

What's left to debate? Exactly what the effects will be. The models that scientist use are very complex, and require powerful super computers to run them. The climate model you can get for free from NASA is a much simplified version of the real models.

At this point, the only thing we can do is prepare for the consequences, and possibly slow down the rate of change.

A lot of people on here will point you to widely discredited sources, corporate shills, and various other mis-information. But until these people have scientifically peer-reviewed articles and the data to back up their claims, you should take anything they say with a monstrous salt lick.

It is unfortunate that it has become so political.

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Answer 3

Greenland is white because it is frozen. When it was discovered a thousand years ago it was green because it was not frozen and green plants grew there so well that farmers there exported crops.
Now that Greenland is frozen we need more global warming so the farmers of Greenland can resume their trade with the rest of the world in our global village. When Greenland is once again green like it was before global warming resumed, we will have helped the world recover from the obvious cooling effect we have had on the earth since Greenland was discovered.
Greenland once was a food exporter, and global warming will help it become an exporter again. We need global warming to make Greenland green.

Answer 4

there is a difference between the theory of global warming and the theory of global warming due to man made greenhouse gasses.

the theory of global warming is that the earth cyclically warms and cools over thousands of years.

the greenhouse theory is that man made gasses especially co-2 cause temperature increases.

there are many flaws in the greenhouse theory.
1. a single volcanic eruption will put thousands of times more greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere than man has in all of history.
2. they site these wonderful computer models that cant forcast the weather four day in advance much less a hundred years as evidence.
3. the evidence against goes on and on

as for politics, any democrat who wants to run for president will pander to the greenhouse theory crowd. lately Kerry has come out with a book out of nowhere, so be prepared if he can get backing hes running.

Answer 5

Global Warming will happen. Just like Global Cooling will follow. We can't do anything to stop it. The only thing we can do is to slow it down. It will come a lot faster than expected if something isn't done throughout the next few decades.

Answer 6

Global Climate change and other environmental issues are real issues with real merit that are being used by the left to gain political leverage. Just as terrorism and homeland security are real issues with real merit that have been used for political leverage by the right. Same song, new singers.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

I used to live a 8000' in the mountains where the high temp in the summer used to be 75-80 degrees. In the last few years it has been consistently in the mid to upper nineties, even topping 100 several times! You might say it has been getting warmer. The same is true around the globe, and all you have to do to discover that is key word world glaciers to see that all the ice in the world is melting so fast that it may all be gone very soon. For that to happen it has to be getting warmer, no matter what BushOil Sr and W say.

Answer 9

Global warming has both natural and man-made contributors. We should do what we can to slow it down. Many of the things we can do are things that we will probably have to do eventually.

Answer 10

Do we have an effect on the atmosphere, and thus the climate? Absolutely. No rational person can deny that.

Does pollution contribute to climate change, at least on a regional if not global scale? Absolutely. Centuries of evidence support that. Again, no rational person can deny that.

Is our current global climate going through changes, and are humans at least partially responsible? Almost certainly. We only have decades of evidence to support that premise.

Are the global climate changes likely to become fatal and/or irreversible in the next half-century? Maybe. That's still open to speculation and debate.

But the issue isn't whether greenhouses gasses and pollution are bad for the environment. Everybody pretty much agrees on that point. The debate is about HOW BAD they are, and whether we should do something about it now versus later.

Personally, if we know we're causing damage, we should take steps to minimize the damage. Why risk it becoming fatal and/or irrevesible when the changes have real practical benefits regardless of the long term threat?