Why do cons make global warming a political issue?

Question

Whether man made global warming is real or not is a not a political issue, it is a scientific issue. If you want the truth as best as current science can give you are supposed to trust the scientific consensus on the subject not a minority of doubters.

There is a scientific consensus on man made global warming. This consensus is not an opinion, but a conclusion based on OBSERVATIONS, EXPERIMENTATION, MODELING, and (((PEER REVIEW))).

I looked for all the well established scientific organizations engaged in geologic, climatic, and meteorologic research and their official statements on man made global warming. This is what I have so far.

(Stay tuned for official statments from NASA's Goddard Space Institute, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.)

The Geological Society of America (GSA) is a PRIVATE scientific organization founded in 1888 and consisting of over 20,500 geoscience professionals.
http://www.geosociety.org/aboutus/intro.htm

"The Geological Society of America (GSA) supports the scientific conclusions that Earth’s climate is changing; the climate changes are due in part to human activities; and the probable consequences of the climate changes will be significant and blind to geopolitical boundaries. Furthermore, the potential implications of global climate change and the time scale over which such changes will likely occur require active, effective, long-term planning. GSA also supports statements on the global climate change issue made by the joint national academies of science (June 2005), American Geophysical Union (December, 2003), and American Chemical Society (2004)."
http://www.geosociety.org/aboutus/position10.htm

The American Meteorology Society (AMS) is a PRIVATE scientific organization founded in 1919 and consisting of over 11,000 meteorology professionals.
http://www.ametsoc.org/aboutams/index.html

"Despite the uncertainties noted above, there is adequate evidence from observations and interpretations of climate simulations to conclude that the atmosphere, ocean, and land surface are warming; that humans have significantly contributed to this change; and that further climate change will continue to have important impacts on human societies, on economies, on ecosystems, and on wildlife through the 21st century and beyond."
http://www.ametsoc.org/POLICY/2007climatechange.html

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was created in 1988 by the World Meteorology Organization and the UN Environment Programme. It is led by government scientists from over 130 nations, as well as several hundred academic scientists and researchers.
http://www.ipcc.ch/about/about.htm

"Most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely (defined in footnotes as greater then 90% likelyhood) due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations. This is an advance since the TAR’s (previous Third Assessment Report) conclusion that “most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations”. Discernible human influences now extend to other aspects of climate, including ocean warming, continental-average temperatures, temperature extremes and wind patterns"
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is an honorary society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific research. Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded to a scientist or engineer. It has over 2,000 members of whom more then 200 have won a Nobel Prize. The NAS was created by President Abraham Lincoln on March 3, 1863. As mandated in its Act of Incorporation, the NAS has, since 1863, served to "investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art" whenever called upon to do so by any department of the government.
http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ABOUT_main_page

The NAS along with the national science academies of the G8 nations (France, Russia, Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada) plus those of Brazil, China and India created and adopted the following joint statement on global warming:

"There is now strong evidence that significant global warming is occurring. It is likely that most of the warming in recent decades can be attributed to human activities... The scientific understanding of climate change is now sufficiently clear to justify nations taking prompt action. It is vital that all nations identify cost-effective steps that they can take now, to contribute to substantial and long-term reduction in net global greenhouse gas emissions."
http://www.academie-sciences.fr/actualites/textes/G8_gb.pdf

The American Geophysical Union is a PRIVATE scientific organization founded in 1919 and consisting of over 45,000 geophysicist professionals.
http://www.agu.org/inside/abt_agu.html

"Human activities are increasingly altering the Earth's climate. These effects add to natural influences that have been present over Earth's history. Scientific evidence strongly indicates that natural influences cannot explain the rapid increase in global near-surface temperatures observed during the second half of the 20th century... A particular concern is that atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide may be rising faster than at any time in Earth's history, except possibly following rare events like impacts from large extraterrestrial objects...

Moreover, research indicates that increased levels of carbon dioxide will remain in the atmosphere for hundreds to thousands of years. It is virtually certain that increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases will cause global surface climate to be warmer... The unprecedented increases in greenhouse gas concentrations, together with other human influences on climate over the past century and those anticipated for the future, constitute a real basis for concern."
http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/policy/climate_change_position.html

The American Chemical Society is the world's largest (PRIVATE) scientific organization with over 160,000 chemistry professionals. It was founded in 1876.
http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=siteinfo\aboutacs.html

"There is now general agreement among scientific experts that the recent warming trend is real (and particularly strong within the past 20 years), that most of the observed warming is likely due to increased atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, and that climate change could have serious adverse effects by the end of this century... The overwhelming balance of evidence indicates that reducing greenhouse gas emissions is the prudent and responsible course of action at this time. Although vigorous climate research is certainly needed to reduce uncertainties and to identify potential adverse effects, it should not forestall prudentaction now to address the issue. ACS believes that public and private efforts today are essential to protect the global climate system for the well-being of future generations."
http://www.chemistry.org/portal/resources/ACS/ACSContent/government/statements/2004_statements/2004_07_global_climate_chg_env.pdf

The Geological Society of London is the world's oldest PRIVATE scientific organization in the world. It was founded in 1807. It is also the largest geoscience organization in Europe with over 9,000 members.
http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/template.cfm?name=geoabout

"Global climate change is increasingly recognised as the key threat to the continued development – and even survival - of humanity... We find that the evidence for human-induced climate change is now persuasive, and the need for direct action compelling."
http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/template.cfm?name=Global_Warming_Essay

WHAT DO ABOUT IT IS A POLITICAL ISSUE.

WHETER MAN MADE GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL IS NOT.

Answer 1

The first part of your question is wrong...

Only the liberals are talking about global warming.

The rest of your question is useless fodder. Global warming is crap.

Answer 2

I'm afraid that you misunderstand the nature of science and human acceptance of new ideas. Out at the edges of science, theories can not be directly proved because the units being discussed are either too small to be independently observed or too large to be manipulated. Earth's climate is one of the 'too large' cases. All you can do with a 'too large' case is create models and test them after the fact on reality. In the case of global warming, the hypothesized time frame [decades] is so long that none of the models can possibly have been tested. Yet. And, as reported in multiple journals, the models that have been released have, so far, all proved to have serious flaws in either their data, their reasoning, or their mechanism (or all three). As to human acceptance of ideas, it is quite common for the vast majority to be wrong. Even for the vast majority of supposed scholars in the field [which hasn't actually happened in this case anyway]. The earth is flat. The earth is the center of the Universe and the sun travels around our planet. Light does not bend. The speed of light is infinite. The speed of light is limited by the invisible ether in which it travels. Chemical elements can be transmuted into gold. No chemical element can ever spontaneously become another. The total mass of a system is fixed [unless you violate the system's boundraries]. Energy can not be either created or destroyed, but only changed in form. Electrons can not 'hop' across an insulator. And on and on. Every single one of the assertions in the preceding paragraph was, at one time, the vast majority's truth, even the scientific community's truth. Later on, a small minority dared to say that it wasn't so, or wasn't always so. At the moment, we believe that the best science is that all of those statements are misleading or outright false. Global warming could well be the same -- another popular delusion that cold science can't prove correct because it isn't correct. *** Fact: Independent observatories have measured that the average temperature of the planet has increased from 1980 through 2004. Several different ones have also measured this same effect, over the same time period, for the planets Mars and Neptune. Further, the relative amount of warming seems quite congruent with both the square-cube law applied to solar radiation and the black body radiation law applied to the planets. Now, -- unless some group of humans have been commuting back and forth from their homes on Mars for the past 25 years, I think it is pretty plain that solar warming is the cause of what is happening. Further, we know that solar warmiing and solar cooling have both happened within human experience. Vikings lived quite well in Greenland 1000 years ago. It was cold, world-wide, after about 1300 AD. Humans caused neither the warmth in 1000 AD nor the cold in 1300 AD. Please find something else to worry about -- Iran and North Korea have offered themselves as possibles. :-)

Answer 3

I was taught that a scientic hypothesis is only that until proven. Give me proof, not consensus!
NASA has noted that the atmosphere of MARS has risen by an average of 0.6 degrees C over the last 20 years, Earth has risen by 0.65. Can't be human caused on Mars...maybe the 0.05 degree difference on Earth is caused by human activity. Earth's average temperature was 2 degrees warmer than now between 1400 and 1600AD during the "Medieval Warm period" - there were no fossil fuels burnt during that period.
These are "inconvenient truths" for global warming alarmists.

Answer 4

Another liberal lie in the form of a Yahoo question DEBUNKED!!!

Cons making Global Warming a political issue!!! LOL!!

Ask Mr. Gore why he preaches Global Warming all while using more utilities to heat and cool his own home in one month than the average citizen uses in a YEAR!!!!

Hope he's driving a Prius to make up for it? But I doubt it.

Answer 5

Yea remember We made a Movie About it and sent around Al Gore the republican mouth piece and he won an Oscar.... Oh wait that was you demon Crats

Answer 6

Ummm... no, the question should be: "Why do liberals make global warming a political issue?"

Conservatives hardly ever talk about it, except to laugh.

Answer 7

Um it became a political issue when Al Gore made it a political issue and last I heard, he was a Democrat.

Answer 8

Because libs are trying to convince the world that a political solution is needed.

Answer 9

I've got some sad news for you. In science "consensus" means nothing and proves nothing.

Good luck, I hope this helps.

Answer 10

Are you telling us AlGore went to the "Dark Side" & is now a CON? Oh my!