Why do the high priests of the "Global Warming" religion blame humans, mainly Americans, for it.?

Question

Before you answer, read the following and know it to be factual. You can look it up.

1. At the peak of the last glacial cycle, giant ice sheets a mile thick covered half of North America.
2. Cars did not exist 20,000 years ago. Fire was a relatively new thing.
3. Ergo, human activity did NOT cause the ICE AGE nor the melting of the ice after the ICE AGE.
4. Re-read point #1. Key words "mile thick".

Answer 1

Haven't you noticed that Americans are to blame for everything?

DJ, great quotes....Most Scientist DO NOT agree on Global Warming theories....although that crap keeps coming out of Gore's mouth like it's gospel

Answer 2

Humans didn't cause the Ice Age or the melting following the Ice Age but because of all the CO2 humans are producing from cars, factories, etc, it's destroying the layer of green house gases in the air which protects the earth from intense radiation from the sun's rays. Without the green house gases, the earth basically becomes over heated, causing the ice caps to melt and therefore, when the ice caps are completely melted, the whole world will basically flood. Okay, not all of it, but a whole s**t load of land become underwater.
And there, in short, is how humans are causing global warming.
And Americans thrive on anything electric and most drive down the street and over user electric things like cars, air conditioners, etc, therefore releasing a lot more CO2 than other countries.

Answer 3

This argument doesn't lead to the idea that global warming hasn't been caused by humans. Just because people weren't the cause of the melting of the ice after the ice age has no bearing on what people are responsible for now. Can there only be one cause for things to happen? The ice could have been 15 miles thick and that doesn't strenghten your argument...

Answer 4

Read the following and know it to be factual:
1. Ice ages, and inter-glacial periods, are caused by small changes in earth's orbit known as "orbital forcing". These changes are caused by gravity and can be computed for thousands of years into the past and future. Therefore we know that orbital forcing peaked 6000 years ago, and should be slowly cooling the planet right now.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/207/4434/943

2. When coming out of an ice age, it generally takes about 5000 years or so to warm the planet by 7° C, a rate of .14° per century. In the past century we have warmed by .7 degrees, which is five times faster than the natural rate. There is no historical or geological evidence that the earth has ever warmed at a rate this fast for a period of a century or more. EVER. In 4.5 billion years.
http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/Report/AR4WG1_Pub_FAQs.pdf

Answer 5

http://www.oism.org/pproject/index.htm


Be sure to read the scientific paper on which this petition is based.
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This is the website that completely knocks the wind out of the enviro's sails. See over 17,000 scientists declare that global warming is a lie with no scientific basis whatsoever.

The global warming hypothesis has failed every relevant experimental test. It lives on only in the dreams of anti-technologists and population reduction advocates. The United States is very close to adopting an international agreement that would ration the use of energy and of technologies that depend upon coal, oil, and natural gas and some other organic compounds.

This treaty is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is eviromentally helpful.

The link above will take you to the paper Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and a petition that will let you participate in this important project.

Answer 6

It is true that global warmings and coolings have happened over and over again in the past (we go through an ice age roughly every 10,000 years or so). However, we are probably contributing to global warming with the pollutants from production plants, vehicles, etc., etc.

I think that even though global warming and ice ages cannot be prevented, we may be causing global warming to occur at a much faster rate than it would occur if we did not have the amount of industry & other CO2 producing processes that we have. We should probably just begin seriously paying attention to more eco-friendly methods of production and stop cutting down all of the rain forests.

Answer 7

For anybody that has trouble understanding what happens to a to a planet that gets covered in thick cloud cover (airborne particulates say pollution), should go live on Venus. Venus has a runaway greenhouse effect, surface temp. 750k. Yes trapping the heat of the sun with pollution can raise the planets temp. You don't want to believe because you don't want to have to do anything about it (lets just keep polluting)

Answer 8

Because the Americans started the issue and others then followed up with it being a "cause celebrant" - you do not see the Chinese or other coal burning countries worried about it, in fact they just thumb at the issue. It has garnered hype through American actor's and wannabe ex politicians. Just think - 20 years ago we were supposedly going into a futuristic ice age. And one more thought "hasn't BEEN WARMING since the ice age anyway?"

Answer 9

The points you make are all correct, I don't think anyone would dispute any of them for a minute. Climate scientists accept facts - it's the skeptics that distort and deny them.

Human activities receive much of the blame because simple physics identifies how the greenhouse effect works, we know that any amount of greenhouse gas emissions is going to contribute to global warming - that's just basic science.

We also know how the carbon cycle works - the natural chain of events that both absorbs and releases carbon dioxide. This cycle is more or less in balance when left alone, pushing more carbon emissions into the cycle upsets the balance and overloads it - again, basic science.

The reason some people are pointing the finger at Americans are because they are the largest polluters on the planet. Each US citizen contributes 19.8 tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year, five times the global average, 2000 times the least polluting citizens (Chadians).*

America is also the only country in the world where there is a sizeable resistance to the science of global warming (16% don't view it as a serious threat), largely I beleive due to the involvement of politics and religion in a scientific matter. The rest of the world wants to, and is, making progress when it comes to combating global warming. Some people outside the US view the skeptics as obstinate, selfish, opinionated, arrogant, ignorant etc - you get the picture.

Turning to your point about the 'ice age'. The glacial retreat commenced 18,000 years ago and the primary retreat spanned a period of 7,500 years. During this time global avaerage temperatures rose by 7 degrees Celsius, the retreat has continued to this day to a much lesser extent, during which time temperatures have risen naturally by a further one degree Celsius.

Even at the peak of natural warming temperatures were rising by a little under one degree Celsius per 1000 years - for a natural event this is a remarkable rate of change. But to put it into context, at the current rate of warming (0.0156 degrees C per year), temperatures would rise by 117 degrees C during the same period of time, or to put it another way - temperatures are currently rising 17 times faster than they did during the peak of the glacial retreat.


* Some small island nations produce more CO2 per capita than the US but this is largely due to the presence of military air bases and other factors which distort the figures.

Answer 10

because its a way of conforting there minds and convincing people that it can be controled, as well as puting the blame game on the evil republicans.


but if you think about it the only way to stop" global warming is to slaughter cows, through ice packs onto the sun, and cork up all the volcanos, and make all the trees in the world fire retardent.

Answer 11

The fact that previous glacials were not influenced by human activities is not relevant to the current warming. Why do the high priests of the "Pseudo-Skeptic" religion, mainly political pundits and fiction writers, fail to understand this?

Before you try to think read the following and know it to be factual. You can look it up.

1. Carbon Dioxide is well researched and its properties as a greenhouse gas have been known to scientists for over a century.

2. Increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere lead to higher global mean temperatures.

3. Humans have been putting massive amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere over the past century.

4. Re-read point #1. Key words 'Well understood greenhouse gas".