Is Global Warming just a crock of Baloney or is it just natural and normal occurance?? Your Thoughts?

Question

Why are they making such a big deal out of this so called Global Warming? Why now? Is this just another money grab and completely B.S.?

Answer 1

Good question DCA. The truth is no one knows for certain.

Answer 2

There is NO solid scientific evidence that man is creating global warming or that man has a hand in it. It is all theory. Mt St Helen's provided 5 times the amount of "green house" gases when it blew, than man could in 100 years. WOW! Nature is strong. Anyway, yes, the world is warming in some areas, cooling in others. Our world wobbles in its tilted axis. We haven't lived long enough to observe the actions of the wobble.

Yes, global warming is another money thing started by hippies and the green movement. There is a reason why the US Senate did not ratify Kyoto in 1998. When Clinton's buds went to the senate to look for votes, the treaty garnered 6 votes. It was 94-6 in favor of rejecting it. Clinton signed the treaty to shore up support and divert attention from the scandal.

Answer 3

If you mean is man the cause of dangerous global warming, I think that we may be contributors but not by any means the total cause. Nor do I believe it is on a planet killing pace that Al Gore says it is. You asked about a money grab? I read on the drudge report this morning that Al Gore has banked a bit over 100 million from his movie and book sales. Who says fear doesn't pay? Most scientists agree we have warmed up about 7 tenths of 1 degree in the last 100 years. But interesting NASA says so has the planet mars and possibly some others. Al leaves out the primary source of heat our solar system uses it's called the sun. But that doesn't fit in to his blame the people scheme especially Americans we are the worst according to him. There is nothing wrong with continually trying to pollute the air less and less and find alternative energy resources but to say we will kill the earth in the next 90 years (he said 100 ten years ago) if we don't stop driving suv's and pick up trucks is ridiculous.

Answer 4

it's amazing that the real Scientists are never heard from....
Is the Earth still recovering from the “Little Ice Age”?
""A possible cause of global warming
Syun-Ichi Akasofu
International Arctic Research Center
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Abstract
There seems to be a roughly linear increase of the temperature from about 1800, or even much earlier, to
the present. This warming trend is likely to be a natural change; a rapid increase of CO2 began in about
1940. This trend should be subtracted from the temperature data during the last 100 years. Thus, there is a
possibility that only a fraction of the present warming trend may be attributed to the greenhouse effect
resulting from human activities. This conclusion is contrary to the IPCC (2007) Report, which states that
“most” of the present warming is due to the greenhouse effect. One possible cause of the linear increase
may be that the Earth is still recovering from the Little Ice Age. It is urgent that natural changes be
correctly identified and removed accurately from the presently on-going changes in order to find the
contribution of the greenhouse effect.""

Do you think that the UN is telling the whole truth or has an agenda? Why would they erase the Medieval Warming period???? Maybe to make the more gullible be taken in...
http://www.just-boilers.com/ungraph.jpg
This just in...
This was written this morning...
"Water vapour was responsible for 95 per cent of the greenhouse effect, an effect which was vital to keep the world warm, he explained.

"If we didn't have the greenhouse effect the planet would be at minus 18 deg C but because we do have the greenhouse effect it is plus 15 deg C, all the time."

The other greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen dioxide, and various others including CFCs, contributed only five per cent of the effect, carbon dioxide being by far the greatest contributor at 3.6 per cent.

However, carbon dioxide as a result of man's activities was only 3.2 per cent of that, hence only 0.12 per cent of the greenhouse gases in total. Human-related methane, nitrogen dioxide and CFCs etc made similarly minuscule contributions to the effect: 0.066, 0.047 and 0.046 per cent respectively. ""
For that link from New Zealand go here...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaruherald/4064691a6571.html

As we get further from God, we will believe ourselves to be more important than we are.

Answer 5

No, its a serious problem.

The "debate" is the BS. There WAS a debate among scientists for several years as they investigated the possibility of global warming and its possible causes. That's the case in any area of scientific invistigation--UNTIL the point is reached where the evidence is clear and compelling. Once the facts have been established, a scientific onsensus is reached and the debate is over.

What you are seeing now is the residual effect of a campaign to discredit and derail the research on the part o fthe oil companies and the Bush administration--and that's not a political dig--but a proven fact that they did just that.

The reason: its very clear at this point that the ONLY oneswho stand to lose from switching to alternative energy are the oil/coal/natural gas industries. The technology (currently available commercially and/or to be available within 10) years iwill create jobs and boost the economy--and, in the long run, lower energy prices.

The oil companies are running scared. With alternative energy technolgy rapidly reaching the point of having the advantage in the market, and the very real need to change because of climate change, they are on the verge of becoming obsolete and they know it.

Here's one indicator of how American business really views this: in Silicon Vally (i.e. the core of the information/computer revolution) CURRANT (not projected) capital investment in alternative energy has jumped from $1.5 billion (2006) to $3.5 billion in 2007. Now, do you think those guys are dumb enough to drop that kind of money if they don't have a marketable product in the works? That area didnt produce literally hundreds of Billionaires by being stupid.

Answer 6

It's amazing to me that anyone in the world can dispute global warming and human involvement in the process with all the data that is out there. Just from common sense alone, it should not be a surprise that human beings have become capable of affecting the enviroment in such a massive way. From the incredible, increasing rate of human population on this earth to the proven effect of carbon emissions on the enviroment, it should be a simple A to B to C gives you D for most rational human beings.

A. Human beings continue to multiply on planet earth and this means more and more industrial growth and consumption
B. The first step in industrial growth and consumption is the use of more fuel and power sources
C. Use of almost all fuel and power (that we have found so far) results in harmful emissions to the ecosystem which nothing is correcting.

Leading us all to:
D. GLOBAL WARMING

**Cruisinthru: Are you serious? You're comparing Mars (which has no atmosphere or O-Zone layer to speak of) with Earth? You can't compare other planets to Earth. That's why there is life here and none anywhere else in the solar system.

Answer 7

Global Warming is a legitimate, if barely detectable phenomenon. Theories about it are still far from definitive, but, it fits the agendas of many to 'blame' it on certain human activities. In the 70's, there was a widely bandied-about theory that clouds of polution would blot out the sun and bring on a new ice age. In the 60s, it was feared that pesticides would whipe out birds or polinating insects and cause famine on a massive scale. Fear of overpopulation has been running pretty high for decades, yet people seem mostly able to continue feeding and housing themselves - generally better than before, for the most part.

Alarmism is a way to get people who aren't much concerned with your agenda behind you. Bush used alarmism to get more people behind the invasion of Iraq (WMDs! WMDs!), environmentalists used it to stiffle nuclear power in the US (no new ractors built in 30 years).

Answer 8

Global warming is happening at the rate of 1/4 of a degree every decade. However, it is ludicrous to think that humans have a hand in this cyclical phenomenon. It's like saying the dinosaurs created the Ice Age.

Answer 9

It's natural.

Sue, Mars is not closer to the sun than the Earth is. Earth is the 3rd planet, Mars is the 4th.

Crabby, there may be a consensus among some scientists, but there are many more who dispute the conclusions. Science is not consensus it is proof. There is plenty of proof that the planet has been warming and cooling for millions of years.

Answer 10

Yeah, it's completely natural and normal, just like nuclear waste, the atomic bomb, plastic bags, dioxin emitted from things like the burning of plastics, mercury poisoning in fish, sex changes in frogs where untreated water containing birth-control pill leftovers is dumped, and the African droughts caused not by Africa's natural crappiness, but because we've cut down half of their rainforests for wood to sell to ... guess who?! ... Americans and Europeans.

And don't you know cave men were burning their chemically synthesized plastics and driving their man-made cars around millions of years ago and nothing ever happened to them.

Yeah. See where I'm going with that.

Answer 11

Global warming is balogna. Despite your horrendous defeat of that word, i like your question.

Global warming is a way to get more funding. it's all about money. Scientists use global warming in almost all of their research now because people pay them to search for it. Liberals (like Al Snore) use global warming for media attention and...you guessed it.. money! If all else fails, we can set up our own company of carbon credits and use that to counter our "carbon footprints"