http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070501/sc_nm/globalwarming_ice_dc
Speak up oh noble Bushies. Is everyone who disagrees with you on this matter a commie terrorist homosexual atheist?
When do you start admitting you might be wrong?
2007-05-01 09:20:57 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
I am so sick and tired of the Bushbots thinking there isn't anything wrong. WAKE UP! The pollution alone in our major cities is getting much worse.
2007-05-01 09:49:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nobody disputes that climate change occurs. What is disputed is whether man is the primary cause of it.
After all, there was a "little ice age" for 200 years from the 17th to the early 19th centuries (so cold you could walk from NJ to Manhattan). Before that there was the Medieval Warming Period which lasted from the viking age to the little ice age -- the Medieval Warming Period made it so warm that the vikings could travel easily from Scandinavia to Iceland to Greenland and to Canada. They farmed Greenland for centuries.
Around 10,000 years ago the last (of many) ice ages came to a close and the planet warmed considerably, and the global ice caps shrunk by a HUGE degree.
The content of the atmosphere is thought to have changed too -- it is thought that when the dinosaurs were around, there was a lot more oxygen in the atmosphere than there is now. That's even a theory why the animals back then grew so much bigger. Studies have been done with mammals raised in oxygen rich laboratory environments, and they tend to grow much larger than in our regular atmosphere.
I'm not saying global warming or climate change is not effected by humans. What I'm saying is that those that question the idea have a rational basis for doing so. I've posted, several times, the question asking for the proof that climate change is man-caused, and precious few even get past "2000 scientists agree" platitudes. So, stop with the condescending language.
2007-05-01 16:49:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whether there is global warming going on is NOT the issue, it's the cause and whether it is as BIG a deal as the warming zealots would have us believe AND what, if anything, can be done about it that will actually have an impact beyond just making you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Tell you what, watch the CNN Headline News special on tomorrow. It's going to be on at 6:00 PM, 8:00 PM, and 10:00 PM Central Time Zone. Glenn Beck is hosting it but he has had people working on it for months. It promises to provide the counterpoints to many of the issues.
2007-05-01 17:18:45 · answer #3 · answered by kathy_is_a_nurse 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, what this means to me is that the scientists have absolutely no idea of what will happen. The computer models they've been using bear little resemblance to what has happened, so anyone's guess is probably just as good as their's.
Thinking you can model something as gigantic and complex as global climate is sheer arrogance. The best anyone can come up with is a SWAG.
2007-05-01 16:55:12 · answer #4 · answered by thegubmint 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, I do think it's a myth. So what you seen it on a news site. It's all over the news. But turn to the Science channel, and you can also see scientists touting the claim that the Earth is headed for a new Ice Age. Now how could it be both? I think the Earth is going to do whatever the good Lord wants the Earth to do, and whatever the Earth has done for millions of years.
2007-05-01 16:31:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yep. Still think it's a myth and I happen to be a democrat!
2007-05-01 18:02:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
don't matter whether or not it is a myth, what are we going to do about it.
2007-05-01 18:21:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I never claim to be infallible. Do you?
2007-05-01 16:52:35 · answer #8 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋