If the question of man-made global warming is so settled......?

Question

why aren't these debates slam dunks for the green side? No rational person can read these discussions and claim that they are. Why do they have such a tough time of it? Does that reflect on their poor debating skills, on the fact that it's NOT as settled as they say, or both?

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Dana I've provided mountains of evidence and you know it.

Answer 1

Foolish, useful idiots of the left don't seem to realize that once a scientific fact has been proven, I mean really proven through experimentation and repeatable results and peer reviewed publication there can be no argument. Thus far, there has not been a single instance where this is the case.

Instead you hear words like "consensus". In science there is no such thing as consensus. Consensus means nothing. For many centuries the consensus that the world was flat. Scientific methodology proved it was not. One scientists can disprove all of the consensus that ruled the earth for hundreds of years using mathmatics and simple, provable, repeatable, predictable results.

Another ploy of the left is to include many, many types scientists to support this opinion. Only climatologists and perhaps meteorologists have a valid opinion. It does not matter what biologists, zoologists, chemists, physicists or any other discipline thinks about it. Their opinons are no more valid than a busdrivers.

Settled? They don't need no stinking settled!!! It has become a religion to them. Ecology, animal rights and now the new orthodoxy, global warming.

I wish one of the believers would explain to me why, if man is causing global warming by burning fossil fuels, does the high priest of global warming, Al Gore, burn hundreds of times more fossil fuel than the average American? If he believes we are in danger, why does he continue?

There is only one answer. HE KNOWS IT IS NOT TRUE!!!
The "carbon credit" system is already in place to allow the rich politicians and the Hollywood stars to carry on their lifestyles unabated while we walk.

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Answer 2

The debate is not settled as the global warming alarmists would like you to think, global warming is still an actively debated topic in the scientific community, the only people who think it is settled are the politicians. Science is an ongoing process, in science a theory can never be proven it can only be supported or disproved. The global warming alarmists have declared the issue proven and closed to new evidence. This global warming scare makes a mockery of the scientific process.

Answer 3

The people here are not fully informed. The scientists are, as are many important people and politicians. In those arenas, because of the peer reviewed data, the question is settled:

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

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

"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

"The science of global warming is clear. We know enough to act now. We must act now."

James Rogers, CEO of Charlotte-based Duke Energy.

"the evidence is sufficient that we should move towards the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon loading in the atmosphere"

Newt Gingrich, former Republican Speaker of the House

"The overwhelming majority of atmospheric scientists around the world and our own National Academy of Sciences are in essential agreement on the facts of global warming and the significant contribution of human activity to that trend."

Russell E. Train, Republican, former environmental official under Presidents Nixon and Ford

"I agree with you (Gore) that the debate over climate change is over."

Rep. Dennis Hastert, Republican, Illinois

"Global warming is real, now, and it must be addressed."

Lee Scott, CEO, Wal-Mart

"Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming."

Senator John McCain, Republican, Arizona

“DuPont believes that action is warranted, not further debate."

Charles O. Holliday, Jr., CEO, DuPont

Answer 4

the biggest situation is that workstation modelling might nicely be made to assert in spite of you like it to. So whilst documents is obtainable in to show the fashions are incorrect, (distant sensing satellites exhibiting the Earth is laying off warmth quicker than envisioned by skill of the fashions) the respond is to no longer throw out the documents yet to re-examine the fashions. climate is cumulative climate. we can't accurately assume climate 2 weeks out simply by fact the structures are so complicated. Why can we expect of that we are in a position to assume climate one hundred years from now? the terrific answer is that it has no longer something to do with climate and each little thing approximately environmentalists wanting to close down all styles of financial progression. And definite, the Left is carefully against technological information that doesn't extra healthful their time table. Vaccinations do no longer reason autism. Genetically changed nutrition isn't any distinctive from different ingredients, photograph voltaic and wind are too inefficient to serve a continental financial zone. yet that's in straight forward terms a start up.

Answer 5

I agree with sssnole. Like the skeptics you're talking about in these debates, you're providing no evidence whatsoever. Show me a Yahoo question about global warming where the global warming believers didn't trounce the skeptics with evidence, logic, and reason.

Just because the skeptics don't admit to being wrong doesn't mean they're right.

Answer 6

Truth is unknown to you, hence you can only repeat lies from the Right.

There are pros and cons to every issue, very few are 100% settled, but the evidence is 90% against your argument, and 100% that your views are not rational.

Answer 7

Even a pier reviewed conclusion is only that, a conclusion. It is not written in stone. Al Gore would not even show up with experts because he knows that he would get Shellacked. He pretends to be an expert but refuses to debate. He claims the debate is over. I sometimes feel sorry for him because I think he probably needs help, but other times, I just despise him.

Answer 8

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/dimming_prog_summary.shtml

Check this out.

Just thought I'd mention that I here in the UK, global warming / climate change / man made pollution or what ever you want to call it are not disputed here, people here seem to realise it is FACT and only in America are there so many people disputing it. I am shocked at how many Americans are on here arguing that it does not exist.

Answer 9

Even scientists from the "green" side are changing their minds...


http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=927b9303-802a-23ad-494b-dccb00b51a12&Region_id=&Issue_id=

Answer 10

because sheryl crow says so. now shut up and use one square of toilet paper everytime you go to the bathroom. this will save the world