How can people believe that global warming is actually happening?

Question

How can they believe in global warming, when satellite monitoring can find no significant heat increase along with the increase in CO2 output? Also, it has been found that it was, at one point, hotter in the Dark Ages--when there was less CO2 output--than it is today?!

Answer 1

Because people don't think for themselves, they let the media do it for them.

Answer 2

Global warming and cooling have been going on for as long as the earth has existed. It is nothing to worry about. Worry about the next ice age. Talk about energy use, think of the energy we will need to survive in the cold. I remember these silly so called scientists telling us in the 1970's that we were going to have another ice age by now. The only thing that saved us was the hot air from the Kennedy "no wind power in my pretty neighborhood" twit and his mentor Al "more electricity for my house" Gore. The eruption of a single volcano puts more CO2 into the atmosphere than man has done since we have been here. We need to stop those polluting vocanos is what we need to do. Global warming is an excuse to usher in the new world order. And it's a great excuse to raise taxes too. And those are things the Republicrats are good at.

Answer 3

there is an overwhelming preponderance of evidence that shows the earth is warming. whether a person "believes" it is happening won't change observable data.

BS. in addition to data from satellites, there are temperature records, gas concentration measurements, and a myriad of other sources of data that show heat increases along with increase in CO2 concentration (output).

the same scientists that have described the "medieval warm period" also describe the observable effects of global warming; if you "believe" in one-why not "believe" the other.

duh.

Answer 4

We need the government to ackowledge the problem. We need to stop the influence of oil companies, and look at perspectives outside the U.S.- We are in a media bubble where there is doubt. Yet other countries recognize Global Warming is a problem. The only real reasons our government hesitates and interferes with the truth is the influence to the oil companies and the economic dependency we have on the profits from the polluting technologies. Money, Jobs, and trade status.

Answer 5

Without wishing to be disrespectful you don't really know what you're talking about do you? Maybe you're simply repeating what you've been told or have read on other websites. Wherever you got your information from it's wrong.

Satellites along with all the other methods employed for recording and monitoring temperatures show a very real rise in temperatures and there is a perfect correlation with levels of atmospheric CO2. To claim otherwise shows a distinct lack of knowledge of the subject.

It was not hotter in the Dark Ages (the period referred to as the Medieval Warm Period) - temperatures rose by a fraction of a degree over a period of 600 years, they didn't reach the levels they're at now and the rise was 20 times slower.

Answer 6

umm satellite readings find no significant heat increase, because that technology just started being used recently in 1979.
to be accepted as sound scientific evidence the data should go back farther than 1979, since the greatest increase in temperature and greenhouse gases occured in the 1970's.
maybe you should do more research.

considering the upper atmosphere is cooling, and the lower atmosphere is warming, what do you think the problem is caused by? natural cycles?
natural cycles do exist, but not where temperatures of different levels of the atmosphere are acting independently of one another.

Answer 7

OK, Bethany - let's assume your assumptions are valid and there's no need to be alarmed about global warming.
So, WHY would it be such a 'bad thing' to conserve our energy anyway; protect the fragile ecological balance between man, plants, and animals; and try our best to REuse, REduce, and REcycle our trash??

If you don't think that's a good idea, then why don't you send me all of your money and allow me to squander it as quickly as I possibly can??

It's the same principle.

I'm going to assume that you're a young woman who, perhaps, hasn't married and had children yet. Perhaps you plan to marry and have kids, and grandkids, and maybe even great-grandkids someday. If so, what are you going to tell those beautiful little grandchildren when they ask you, "Gee, Grandma Bethany...YOU knew about global warming. WHY didn't you try to preserve the environment? WHY were you so wasteful? WHY do we have to wear gas masks today to breath fresh air just because you and your generation was so gluttonous fifty years ago??"

WHAT will your answer be, Bethany?? -RKO- 05/17/07

Answer 8

as a results of fact there is no longer something you're able to do to end it. basically a similar, i would not carry coverage if it weren't the regulation that I could have it. i think of it is bigoted that I provide money away to somebody else incase i could desire to spend it to hide damages, once I can basically pay for the damages while it happens. returned, a similar, why do no longer we basically use the technologies we already could produce NO effect on the ecosystem? For the sake of our good wellness, and for something of the planet and its destiny. and stop company leaders from milking society's money by utilising producing on the backside allowable standards, and making it so as that the lifespan of things is fairly short, and intake of consumable products is inspired and controlled to be as much as tolerable. particular we needless to say tolerate. 32 mpg automobiles while 80 mpg is genuinely conceivable and useful, and has been for the final 40 years... capability from polluting, non-renewable components while there is an abundance of inexpensive, unfastened, infinite, non-polluting capacity. greater beneficial than 50 years in the past Tesla took a vehicle from the ford assembly line and had an electric powered motor put in it. He then plugged a small receiver into the capacity inputs placed interior the applying compartment. And powered the vehicle remotely from a generator a number of miles away that took capability from the earth's magnetic field! He did this for an audience. it is recorded in newspapers and became seen on television! i will create a self-perpetuating water generator to capacity my residing house in the subsequent 5 years. it is a tragic international we are residing in. And it has continually been this way. If i attempt to industry my thought, i will in all risk be stopped or maybe killed as a results of effect it may desire to have on oil industry and capacity providers international huge. So i will purely share it with few who could be depended on.

Answer 9

I think the disappearance of glaciers all over the earth may be a clue.

You think 90% of the scientists who study climate and geology are stupid but you have all the answers? Or that somehow they all belong to some fantastic conspiracy?

There is general agreement on the warming aspect. It's the cause and possible cure that the debate is about. That most of our vast forests, that convert CO2 to Oxygen, are gone is a fact.

Answer 10

I think people don't want to believe global warming is happening even though there is all kinds of proof that it is because we don't like to take responsibility for our actions. Regardless of whose fault it is and that there was another in the 1500s, the fact remains that the global temperature is rising.

Answer 11

Perhaps global warming should be used to scare the morons into population reduction.
How about using it to get the hemp growing again.
Use it to reduce air traffic at your local airport.

Who cares if it's real or not!
People believe in it so let's use it to get idiots out of Hummers etc.....