Do people who believe in global warming ever looked at the other side?

Question

http://www.trac.org.au/cgi-bin/test?page=/myths/top10.htm

That's just 1 link..Google it, theres a million more.Research it.

Answer 1

While conservation and sustainable development are noble causes global warming is just a scare tactic used by the environmental whackos.

Answer 2

Most people who believe in global warming do so because there only source of information is the popular media, who are more concerned about entertainment than getting out the facts. eg. The global cooling of the seventies, the aids epidemic of the eighties (they were saying by this time we should have had hundreds of millions of people infected), the Y2K scare, the bird flu epidemic, sars etc.

The extremists believe it because, even if it is not true they believe it is still immoral to pollute the earth. Just look at some of the answers above.

But if the theory of man made global warming is real, then changing a lite bulb and driving hybrid cars is not enough. We have to find another source of energy. Environmentalists are also against hydro-electric power and nuclear power. Solar power and wind power is still in its infancy and is expensive. Forcing us to reduce co2 right know is going to hurt the poor who will not be able to afford heating for their homes. It is also going to raise the cost of production for industry, placing them at a competitive disadvantage against third world nations like China (who do not have to comply). It is going to mean loss of jobs.

But the sad fact is the extremists do not care. In Canada David Suzuki appeared on a radio show, and when the announcer mentioned that the auto workers union are concerned about the Kyoto accord, he referred to them as interested only in their own self interests. ie their jobs and livelyhood.

Answer 3

I have looked at the "other side" which denies global warming is happening and denies that human activity is a major driver. Most of the arguments are based on falsehoods - misinterpretations of data, information from oil company shills and attacks on individuals like Al Gore that have nothing to do with the science.

Take a look at this Web site: http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics.

It deals with all the arguments against the global warming concensus and shows why they're wrong.

Answer 4

What other side is there? This is 2007, fossill fuels are as obsolete as the fossills themselves. Incandescent lighting is also ancient technology. I've seen the other side and its not pretty. Unless you are oblivious to whats happening in the world today and are unable to see whats going on around you then I would suggest taking another look. This planet is in serious trouble and much of the blame is our own. We can be remembered as the generation that got the world to start cleaning the mess thats been created or the generation that just let all this happen right before our eyes.

Answer 5

And the credentials of the guy who wrote this are?

The science of global warming works with many different factors and there are bumps and highs and lows like in any other science. Prudent scientists look at all of the facts and evidence and make judgements based on that.

Is it not a fact that the snow is melting/has melted on Mount Kilamanjaro in Africa? Is it not a fact that the glaciers are melting in "Glacier" National Park in Montana? Is it not a fact that the artic ice is melting and the long sought northern passage seaway may finally open?

In any science there is almost always conflicting evidence. Prudent people continue to look for more evidence to see which way things are going. Right now it looks pretty much like it is going toward global warming even if there are always a few who disagree.

Answer 6

As a matter fact, yes we do. I started out wanting to disprove global warming as yet another farce and scam over 20 years ago when I was working as a research scientist at one of the top facilities in the world. At the time it sounded like inflated alarmist propaganda.

Since that time I have found out that it is completely valid to say global warming exists and that humans are the single largest controllable cause of the shift toward the conditions that cause that warming.

Every factor listing in these so called myth busting websites can be proven incorrect or massively distorted.

Climate change has happened and will happen again, as a result of both natural and cataclysmic forces, yet overall, in the history of the planet there is a form of averaging effect which shows that the moderate temperature periods tend to dominate and last longer and longer as the planet establishes a balance in the key factors that maintain those conditions.

Human activity is the largest destabilizing influence on those conditions, from greenhouse gasses such as CO2 and CH4 to deforestation and destruction of habitat, to increased square footage used for structures which cause light to convert to heat rather than to chemical energy stored in plants and eventually in the ground. These are all factors caused by human activity and are preventable.

Oil companies and people who cannot face the facts are behind all of these distortions and false claims. Trying to make it into a much simpler situation than it is shows the lack of education and wisdom behind such distortions.

People who buy into such lies are worse then fools, they are traitors to humanity because they are too stupid and lazy to research real facts before shooting their mouth off and wasting so much time that would be better put to use building a better future.

Disinformation causes inaction which lets the harm continue.

Answer 7

I most certainly have. I have seen every single argument against global warming theory that exists. However I, unlike you, did further research into these arguments, and found every single one of them to be either unscientific or exceptionally weak. You can find counters to all of the arguments here:

http://realclimate.org/

RealClimate is a Blog run by fifteen highly qualified climate scientists, so you can lay any doubts you may have about the site's validity to rest.

I should love to go through the site you gave and refute the arguments it presents, one by one, but I know it wouldn't have any effect whatsoever on what you believe and you would most likely ignore me, so I won't bother. Feel free to message me if you think I'm wrong.

Answer 8

Check out this documenty on you tube its is done buy the head climitologist at MIT, and the head of the IPCC. Its called the The great global warming swindal. It seperates fact from popular held myths of Global warming. its 8 parts or about a hour long

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXc9H5JSyow

Answer 9

What other side - that it's not our fault so we don't have to conserve energy for the day when the average temperature requires heating our homes all year - when everyone in the world will be burning every tree they can find to survive, thereby making it all that much worse.

If you believe in nuclear winter from a release of hundreds if not thousands nuclear bombs, then you better believe that massive release of smoke and other detritus from burning whatever is available to keep warm (and stay alive) will hide the sun the same way and push us into a new ice age that much faster due to the demands made by 6 billion plus people on earth all requiring limited resources to stay alive.

We should at least be pouring as much money as we can into alternative energy sources - one's that don't cause more overcast in our skies.

Answer 10

Global warming debunked
By ANDREW SWALLOW - The Timaru Herald | Saturday, 19 May 2007

Climate change will be considered a joke in five years time, meteorologist Augie Auer told the annual meeting of Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers in Ashburton this week.

Man's contribution to the greenhouse gases was so small we couldn't change the climate if we tried, he maintained.

"We're all going to survive this. It's all going to be a joke in five years," he said.

A combination of misinterpreted and misguided science, media hype, and political spin had created the current hysteria and it was time to put a stop to it.

"It is time to attack the myth of global warming," he said.

More at link....

Source(s):

http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaruherald/4064...

Answer 11

It is no longer debated that the globe is warming. We know this for a fact. The debate is whether or not humans are contributing to it. We know humans put tons of CO2 into the air, and we know the CO2 causes the earth to warm.

This is like putting 2 and 2 together. What is next, debating if cigarettes are bad for you?