Does anybody still believe that Global Warming is man made?

Question

After it was recently revealed that scientists lied about it to increase their funding?

Answer 1

No. I've never believed that global warming is man made. You have to be very gullible to believe it. The climate is ALWAYS changing. And the current warming trend is very small and follows several centuries of cooling.

The earth is currently in an interglacial period of an ice age. Over the earth's 4.5 billion year history, it has been in ice age periods for less than 20% of the time. The normal condition of the earth is much warmer than present. To get back to 'normal' the earth needs to warmer by quite a bit more.

Answer 2

This has nothing to do with Global Warming being man made. Even though, man, and I must not leave out woman, both which have done their own form of messing things up on our planet. Pollution in our skies, water and soil. Look at our landfills. How about our roads? Nothing gets done, just more excuses on the budget already overspent. So Global Warming to them is not that important. One congressman, who should had retired two decades ago, made a nasty comment saying, "why should I care, I won't be around to see it affect me!" A typical arrogant way to address a most serious issue. But why should he care, he's right, he'll be dead soon.

So you get kickbacks with lies being circulated all the time, with our tax money being used, and for what? More lies being told and more money being needed and spent foolishly. A pretty clever rip-off!

Global Warming is serious enough for me to take an interest in. There are many articles to suggest it's happening now and will continue to get worse in the years to come. Just a matter of time.

Answer 3

It might be, it might not be.

Actual tangible evidence of causation does not exist. We emit a chemical that has heat trapping properties and it is warmer than it was when we started emitting it to such a degree as to increase its atmospheric concentration.

But the increase in atmospheric concentration is 1 / 11,000th of the atmosphere.

And it's been warmer than it is today during periods when the atmospheric concentration was lower.

I'm a skeptic because of the deception that has been used. The attempts to rewrite the climate history to eliminate the MWP, the attempts to pretend that the MWP was never really universally accepted or based on hard evidence but rather was something James Inhofe and Karl Rove cooked up, the continued revision of predictions - every year it's different for my area: after the warm winter of 2000-1, "Boston will have the climate of Atlanta," after the harbor froze over in 2002, "Boston will actually be much colder due to the slowing of the THC," after the fluctuation from mild to zero in 2003 and 2004, "Boston will just have wilder fluctuations," and since, "Boston will have the climate of the Carolinas."

No matter what happens, the Boston Globe will cite some supposed scientific expert as saying THAT's what global warming will produce.

And the hurricanes........ Yeah, I know they missed it because of El Nino but that's the point - if you can't predict a regional phenomenon 3 months out, why should we believe your predictions about the whole planet 30 years out?

Sorry Libs, facts are facts - you can't vote for things to not be true.

Answer 4

I dont,I saw a documentry on the discovery channel that was very interesting.There is a large group of scientist that are finding proof that global warming is an earthly cycle,they have studied several layers of soil from across the world and every couple of hundred years the earth seems to repeat this interesting cycle.I dont believe it is man made,but i do believe that we are contributing to it.

Answer 5

Most everyone does.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change

"I wasn’t convinced by a person or any interest group—it was the data that got me. I was utterly convinced of this connection between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change. And I was convinced that if we didn’t do something about this, we would be in deep trouble.”

Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, USN (Ret.)
Former NASA Administrator, Shuttle Astronaut and the first Commander of the Naval Space Command

Here are two summaries of the mountain of peer reviewed data that convinced Admiral Truly, short and long.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png

http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

To disbelieve global warming, you basically have to reject science.

"There's a better scientific consensus on this [climate change] than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics. Global warming is almost a no-brainer at this point,You really can't find intelligent, quantitative arguments to make it go away."

Dr. Jerry Mahlman, NOAA

Good websites for more info:

http://profend.com/global-warming/

http://www.realclimate.org

"climate science from climate scientists"

Answer 6

no, i think that we are definitely contributing to the ruination of the earth by not conserving energy & polluting the air, and we can do our best to improve, on a personal level, and i'm sure that the more people who try to help, the slower the process will be in regards to global warming, however i don't think that it's possible to reverse it because it is so far beyond "fixing" no matter how many people try. it will have to be a global effort, and we know that's not going to happen. the good thing is that the Bible talks about a hope for the future, the earth being a paradise (Psalm chapter 37 & Revelation 21:3,4 are good scriptures to read) and it also talks about destroying those ruining the earth (Revelation 11:18). so, it will get taken care of, it simply won't be possible by humans.

Answer 7

Where's your source that scientists lied about it.

Of course I beleive that global warming is man-made. I've studied it and know the facts.

Even if every scientist in the world had received billions of dollars it still wouldn't alter the fact that it's happening. You don't need to be a scientist or to receive any money to use your own two eyes.

Answer 8

Yes, I believe humans are to blame in the acceleration of global warming. There is some degree of global warming that is naturally incurring. However, humans have accelerated the problem through emmissions, deforestation, and other unenvironmentally safe actions.

Answer 9

could you please be more specific? i haven't heard about this. what scientists lied? and who broadcast this information? do'nt take it for granted that everyone watches the same news station or reads the same paper as you do. and yes, i do believe that global warming is a real threat. whether it's entirely man-made, or we simply made an existing problem worse, i still think we can step up and do something about it, not live in a state of denial

Answer 10

But the US government recently was shown to have tampered with science to cast doubt into climate change. So that means both sides are lying, so who to believe.

In the end it doesn't matter, certain things have to go, like smog or toxic pollution.

We live in the developed world after all, time to act the part. The new world is supposed to be the modern Shangri-la, not a smoggy filthy mess.