Poll-Global Warming alarmism..........?

Question

Do you believe Global-warming alarmism is a scientific issue that found political support OR this is a political movement that was looking for something to exploit in hopes of attaining elected office?

Answer 1

Every decade the alarmist come out with a new theroy on how mankind is destroying the planet.

1) A new ice age
2) Overpopulation
3) Acid rain
4) Now global warming

There is no sceintific proof that anything mankind has done has changed the earths tempature.

Just follow the money. Al Gore is making big money selling pollution credits.

Answer 2

If giving solid scientific evidence that refutes an idea is considered a legitimate rebuttal, then I'd sure like to know what IS. There is so much evidence demonstrating the effects of global warming that a person could only miss them if they choose not to see. Much of the damage caused by Hurricane Katherine happened because it was much stronger than than the engineers thought possible. In my own part of the world, pine beetles are eating millions of acres of pine forest that had been there for tens of thousands of years. Unless the winter gets cold enough to kill the larvae, they live and take over more areas. I can see, literally, from pictures taken over the last few years, how they are moving northward. As the climate warms, ocean levels are rising. There have been people living on the Maldive Islands for thousands of years, but it's estimated their homes will be submerged by the end of this century, if not sooner.

Answer 3

I was an analytical chemist in the early '70s. The evidence of global warming caused by CO2 emissions was there at that time. To some extent, it may have been a little overblown, or maybe not.

Governments generally don't react until they feel threatened. Given the time frame to correct the situation (many decades) it seems reasonable to begin now.

Citizens, as a whole, have little understanding of science, and especially energy systems. It's difficult for them to understand that cold temperatures today don't in any way invalidate the warming of the system as a whole.

Global warming is a real problem, and political involvement at this point, is a necessary thing.

Answer 4

"Global-warming alarmism" doesn't exist.

Concern over man-made global warming does. As far as being "alarmist," the scientific method is made to be conservative by nature. By time you get this kind of scientific consensus, the evidence has to be truly overwhelming - which it is.

The only thing that is political is the pretense that this debate on the general concepts - whether it exists and the degree to which we have an impact - hasn't been settled.

If that argument wasn't purely political, there would be at least ONE peer-reviewed research paper whose data and evidence point AGAINST the idea of man's influence on warming. It doesn't exist.

You may find some scientists who speak out, but that's opinion, not science, simply because science means they'd have facts, can support a conclusion, and can publish it to be verified or picked apart in an objective manner. If they can't do this, then it's just opinion, and we usually find those opinions are funded by the energy industry.

This isn't like the stupid political talking show. Science has standards, and only one side of this "debate" has met those standards.

Answer 5

It is a concerted political effort started by the UN to take control and power of the world. The majority of the scientists who partook of the first IPCC panel have all stated that there is no proof of human influence on the current warming trend and in fact they cannot tell you with a degree of certainty that it is in fact warming. Now this comes from the same people that the UN bureaucrats cited as their source for the lies they presented as fact.

Anyone who supports this insanity, I challenge you to find the list of scientists who were on the first panel, I challenge you to find more than 50% who say definitively the globe is warming and that man is the specific cause. You cannot, I have done it.

Do not ever fool yourself, this whole scam is about POWER and CONTROL and there is no altruism whatsoever involved.

The environmental movement are the new communists, and their sole goal is the destruction of capitalism.

Answer 6

It has to be political. Why else would the Champion Alarmist still spend nearly $30,000 per YEAR to heat and cool his house? Why is that Mr. Gore?

What's next? Will the folks from PETA turn out to be a bunch of poachers?

Hey Charlie why does Man made CO2 only account for 2% of all CO2 produced? Why does NATURE cause more CO2 production? So isn't NATURE to blame then????

In the 70's the next ICE AGE was coming, in the 80-90 it was acid rain....What's next?

Answer 7

I think it is just another way people are trying to explain something that they really cannot. This issue became political the minute that scientific evidence to the contrary was ignored because it didn't suppport the agenda.

There is evidence that the other planets are getting a little warmer right along with us. Do the martians drive SUV's?

There is an ebb and flow with regard to earthly temperature over the years. The sky is *not* falling people!

Answer 8

Politicizing science is always a bad move. Science should free of politics because unlike politics sciences seeks the truth.

Answer 9

Neither. I believe it is an attempt to indoctrinate American youth. Our country is turning into tree hugging pacifists. Just what the enemy is hoping for.

The measures that are being taken are necessary and on-going. People like Al Gore are turning the issue into a religion.

Answer 10

Global warming is scientifically rock solid, but there are huge uncertainties as to how large the effect is now and will be. Global warming forces unpopular desicions, and nothing is more unwanted among politicians than that. No politician could invent such a problem and survive, but when the scientific evidences become too strong, they have to implement it into their politics.