If gobal warming exists and we are causing it- do you think that?

Question

governments would tax over-packaging, plastic carriers and other unnecessary examples of over-production.
They have children too and surely they would want to preserve this world for their future generations, wouldn't they?

So do you think - as I do - that green issues are being used as a justification to rob the working clases of all their money via taxation, to get rich quick, as was the window taxes of yore?

My personal viewpoint is that the atomic bomb has done the most man-made damage and that this damage is irreversable. They tried underground explosions but they have still caused the same continuing destruction, which is why any testing by any country causes panic in the western world!
We tend to trust experts complicitly, but i think that expert or not - we have to question everything and look for the motive that motivates any action. No one has the right to decide the future of a planet that gives us all equal rights to exist on it.

Answer 1

I do agree with you, our governments are using it as an excuse to tax us as they've already taxed us on everything else. During the 1970's some random muppet on a bbc tv doc said that he THOUGHT that co2 caused global warming, he had no evidence it was just his opinion. At the time Margaret Thatcher wanted to get in on Nuclear power, so the muppets theory was the perfect excuse to make big bucks and thats how all this bollocks started. Some scientists will say what they have to to get more government funding.

Answer 2

99+% of scientists around the world believe global warming is real and mostly caused by us. And any number of very distinguished people, too.

"I wasn’t convinced by a person or any interest group—it was the data that got me. I was utterly convinced of this connection between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change. And I was convinced that if we didn’t do something about this, we would be in deep trouble.”

Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, USN (Ret.)
Former NASA Administrator, Shuttle Astronaut and the first Commander of the Naval Space Command

Here are two summaries of the mountain of data that convinced Admiral Truly, short and long.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png

http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

"There's a better scientific consensus on this [climate change] than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics. Global warming is almost a no-brainer at this point,You really can't find intelligent, quantitative arguments to make it go away."

Jerry Mahlman, NOAA

Good websites for more info:

http://profend.com/global-warming/

http://www.realclimate.org

"climate science from climate scientists"

Answer 3

I'm not sure what you are saying - on the one hand you say governments don't care about environmental issues because they don't tax us on green issues; then you say they do tax us on green issues but only to rob us? Eh?
So which green taxes are you talking about that are designed to rob the working classes rather than help the green problems?

P.s GW is very real and very urgent. Governments know this but want to be re-elected and since the economy is obviously more important to humans than "The World" then "The World" comes second.

Answer 4

i hate to tell you this ,but father xmas does not exist ,neither does the easter bunny ,and neither are those who control the world interested in the fate of the masses.

As for the masses Many blindly believe that our fate is in Gods hands ,and their focus is on the beautifull heaven that awaits ,they are not to concerned with the world their children will inherrit

there may come a time that for the sake of our survival the two views will be seperated in to Enemies and friends of the planet

the most harm that has been done to this planet has beeen done by ignorent and irresponsible agriculture and the roads systems

The Earth has many problems because of man
this is undeniable ,how much we are responsible for Global warming is debateble ,But there is a definate change in Global temperatures that is affecting nature in a bad way.

this text only covers some aspects of Climate change ,mainly agriculture i.e.effects of deforestation and subsequent man made desertification

water and air polution such as caused by
industrial contamination ,the contaminating effects of the cities(the internal combustion engine) ,are other stories,

and all of these are also man made ,such as the high industrial chimneys pumping contamination into the clouds and the burning of tires,some of this polution has been found in the ice in the polar regions

there are natural cycles in the planets life
but a lot is influenced by mans existance ,and this is increasing with overpopulation,putting strains on Natural resources and increasing contaminations as well as destructions of essential componants the ensure living conditions for all life forms

climate change is caused in great parts by desertification ,and most desertification is caused by man
the thinner ozone layer helps to speed this up.and this is caused mainly by air polution ,also as a result of mans actions

in North Africa,India,Mexico ,millions of people are effected by land loss and desertification and some have died as a result,

And now many animals are becoming sick because of changes in temperature ,
vital links in the food chains are disapearing affecting other species further along in the chain

90% of the feral (wild) bee population in the United States has died out.

In the Netherlands bee diversity is down 80 percent in the sites researched, and that "bee species are declining or have become extinct in Britain."

wildflowers that depend on pollination have dropped by 70 percent

we are witness to a mass exstinction ,for the first time since the dinosaurs, of the earth's estimated 10 million species, 300,000 have vanished in the past 50 years. each years, 3,000 to 30,000 species become extinct.

everything is happening so fast it is not possible to monitor things any more.

,the Sahara is growing by 7 kilometers a year
and most of the desserts we know are a results of mans actions ,and they are increasing ,not getting less ,in the dinosaurs days ,there were few desserts.

collectively this planet is drying up ,

each degree rise in temperature means 10%crop loss

and there is less and less water (because of deforestation),to irrigate this production ,
and there are less and less farmers to do it..
Arable lands and their farms are lost all over the globe. Many farmers sons abandon farming and head for the cities.

Northern China is drying up, what once were millions of food producing people, are now hungry refugees ,running for their lives from the all consuming dust storms.
This will have a great effect on world food prices when they start buying at what ever cost, to feed their people.

The farmers that are left have to feed some 70 million more people than the year before but with less topsoil.

Over the last half century,
Population growth & rising incomes have tripled world grain demand from 640 million tons to 1,855 million

In the near future the global farming community will not be able to feed every body ,food prices will continue to rise. .

RISING SEAS
The northpole is melting ,and we will know it without ice in our life times.
this does not affect the sea level because it is ice that is already in the water.but the melting ice from Green land and the south pole ,are another matter

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/natur...

Answer 5

No, I don't think that. Because over-packaging, plastic carriers and other unnecessary examples of over-production do not cause global warming. Burning lots of coal and oil to run air conditioners and cars and airplanes is where the global warming CO2 comes from. All that other stuff is just littering and filling up land fills.

Answer 6

People will extort others any way they can. Global Warmimg is no different.
That doesnt mean it doesnt exist... it does and we MUST do something about it.
Its not fair for the future generations and the inoccent onlookers, the animals and plants on this world.

Answer 7

Kiku, or may I call you Helen, I tend to agree with you totally. It's scandalous how the government get away with it. By the way,,,, Ding Dong on your 360 photo,,,,Nice.

Answer 8

Global warming is inevitable, it is caused by many factors and i believe that the gov. will do what they can to absorb as much revenue from the idea as possible

Answer 9

Politicians of all party's want to control people.It's as simple as that.

I am a tree hugger,but I don't think man is effecting global temperatures.

Answer 10

I agree with you. Its all a ruse. And they need loads of money to keep the Iraq war funded and finance the lifestyle to which the politicians have become accustomed to.

Where do we sign up to become one??