Global Warming - Does anyone actually believe in it anymore?

Question

I had to ask this question as I honestly do not know anyone who believes in it, or maybe they do but they certainly don't believe that us as humans contribute a vast amount in the overall scheme of things (a UN report states that livestock contribute more CO2 than all forms of transport combined). Surely everyone must now see this for the government propaganda that it is; just another way to screw an honest pound out of the hardworking taxpayer. It really makes me sick to hear politicians warbling on about how they are putting taxes up for 'environmental reasons' or to reduce CO2 emissions. Puhleese! I cannot believe that anyone is falling for this nonsense and those that do fall for it and are constantly harping on about saving the planet are putting a big smile on politician's faces as it just keeps on giving them excuses to raise taxes. Stop playing into the politician's hands!

For those wishing to view some evidence of my theory, click on this link:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4499562022478442170

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

Okay, forget for a moment that you don't know anyone who believes in it, despite the fact that millions of people do, and the vast majority of responsible scientists. Let's look at one example so you can understand the huge mistake you're making.

You cite the UN report about livestock contributing more CO2 than transportation, as if that disproves human contribution to global warming.

First problem: it doesn't matter. Even if most of the sources of CO2 are natural, it only takes a little more from humans to make a big difference - to send us over the top. If you were standing in a pool up to your nose and somebody added just a little more water, you'd still drown.

Second problem: livestock are mostly a human activity! We're the ones keeping livestock, remember? So it counts. But even if it didn't, problem number one is the important point.

How many more mistakes are you making? Go out and learn about this stuff instead of just absorbing crap from the fringes and assuming everything else. There is real science behind this. You are free to criticize the science, but your criticism has to be scientific too.

Answer 3

It's incredible how alarmists are now saying something to the effect, "it doesn't matter if we have exaggerated the human contribution or may be wrong or unsure on the cause of global warming, we should still be conserving." Well, maybe you should have stayed on the last message the whole time instead of using terror tactics. Now you have lost the faith of people this planet needs most.

This is your WMDs-in-Iraq moment: Bush lost most of the support for the war not because people failed to see that Hussain needed to be removed, or that Iraqi democracy is important, it's because those people feel that they were misled to begin with - that we should never have fought that war to begin with. How many people will mistrust environmentalists for years to come when they find out just how much they have been misled?

I care for the environment and do what I feel is an above average job of conserving - not perfect or the absolute best that I can, but I try. It makes me sad to think that people are being turned off towards putting forth a good effort by those who claim to care about the environment the most.

Answer 4

it is just so damn confusing isn't it? - and the way the politicians have jumped on the band wagon just can't help but make us feel a little uneasy about what they are telling us. alhtough i have to say - look at the teeny tiny bit of the atomosphere we occupy and you can imagine the possible damage we could do. and indeed, co2 from cow farts is massive - there is no doubt about it - but it is not solely co2 responsible for or, likely to be responsible for, global warming, there are other gasses involved to. gasses that cows or anything other than a human machine infact, can distribute into our atmosphere - take lead for example ... as i understand it we have many 1000's times the natural levels of lead in our atmosphere than was present before WE put it there - maybe other long term effects are yet to show up.. do you really want to wait until it's too late with global warming?
i suppose part of the darwinian therory is that natural selection means that there must be natural changes taking place all of the time - it is possible that this warming is one of them. i once heard someones theory as this... you know when you get sick, your body warms up and destroys the bacteria causing the illness, mother-earth is doing just that, we human animals are acting like a bacteria - if we took greater care of our planet and behaved like human beings, and strove to live synergistically within out world - surely that would be a better place, with or without the politicians?

Answer 5

I still think it was mostly caused by us but I also believe it's still a natural process, you know I also think that George Bush is a bit late with his policies (10 years) because the UK started 10 YEARS AGO!!! And he's only just starting!!!! Get real man, can't you see what's happening! England hardly get any snow in winter anymore, it's all boring at Christmas!!!! Spring flowers are blooming a few weeks earlier than normal, we are getting hotter summers!!! There are some very smart scientists out there who know this is happening and they aren't going to lie about something so serious, are they? So why don't you go on the internet and find some global warming websites and read their point of views then maybe you will believe the truth?!!

Answer 6

Ho ,ho , what a good one !
One point : If coal ,gas and oil are the deposits of carbon from the atmoshere an awfully long time ago when the atmoshere was much warmer , accumulated in lifeforms, which were buried and taken out of the equation . And if increased CO2 in the atmosphere does correlate to higher atmosheric temperatures ,then wouldn't re-releasing it increase the temperature now ?
I seem to remember that the UK was once tropical jungle with all the animals now only found in Africa, India etc.,and presumably Africa was a veritable furnace. Why not again ?
If I was African etc, I wouldn't just sit there and respect the rights of northerners to 'their 'land, if mine was becoming uninhabitable.

Even if ,man's contribution (and livestock is also a part of that ) ,was only partially to blame ,it would be in our interests to remove that part ,and minimise the potentially dire consequences. Unless ,of course ,you like the idea ,of world wide famine, and violence ,as everyone scambles for somewhere inhabitable to live .

Answer 7

A question with...your own "explanation" sorry, but you are more concern where your tax dollars are going. You should of thought about this long ago. Global Warming is indeed happening as we speak, Gore is one of them you speak of! Well, when you have dead fish washed on shores or paid any attention to the claimant around you and other states that have never had such abnormal weather during the four seasons, hot when it's winter, cold when it's summer. Pay more attention, you don't have to believe it to see it, it's happening. So conserve!
For those claiming human life is not responsible, think again, "we" use up transportation like if we had no feet, we use up mega watts of electricity everyday, just to let you all know...the light bill you get every month, that has your mind wondering why it's high if your hardly home, every appliance you have connected to your socket runs up energy, wow! For every plastic bag you get at your grocery store we affect our planet, chemicals are used and wastes is disposed. Into our planet. So think this is due to humans. :O

Answer 8

We are being pushed in the wrong direction on this one - the green vote is gaining in numbers so has to be listened to by the politicians. Sadly its is a case of keeping in with the biggest bully in the playground to survive. The Bodyshop is not ethical that is just a marketing ploy, Simon Cowell is not a saint to disabled children (if you saw his 'life' on TV) comes from money not a working class family, and human beings are still 'very' insignificant compared to mother nature on this planet. The temperature change is a cyclical thing, the Romans grew grapes for wine making in the UK when they were here. Why do the middle class people bleat on about this but do not give up any of their own privileges to ease this so called burden? 1984 by G. Orwell explains the 'misinformation' culture we live in, hope we wise up to this real soon - wake-up call over
Ye what ever did happen to global cooling or the killer wasps from Africa? and that flesh eating disease?

Answer 9

Oh, Lance and Look!

How refreshing to find a theory that matches my thoughts on the evolutionary nature of the universe. WE are simply not power full enough to make those kinds of environmental changes.This is big like Continent shifting! We are here observing, witnessing growth and we want to alter the process?

We humans are a just small part of the natural universe, and being natural creatures any contribution or detraction we make is not out of or opposed to the realm of Evolution. Global warming is a natural event, like the birth of a planet of the hatching of an egg. It may very well be necessary to continuity.
Thank you Lance.

Answer 10

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 11

I did not use to believe in global warming until it was in the 70s in the winter and was snowing in April the past few years (I live in Indiana). I don't know if "global warming" is the term to use, however, it is undeniable that our environment is changing in ways that it never has before....the other thing that we need to consider (but often forget) is the 2nd law of thermodynamics- everything moves towards a state of entropy and it can not decrease only increase (I know a very scientific definition that I am sure someone will disagree with). However, it is proposterous for us to assume that the energy that we consume and but back out into society will not have an effect on it (for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction) Therefore, when we introduce massive amounts of toxins and unnatural substnaces/emissions/products into our environment- there will be a reaction from that- mainly one that goes towards disorder....call it global warming or whatever you will, but it is happening and although it probably cannot be stopped, we can do things to delay the decay and negative changes that are happening

now do politics take advanage of the situation...well they take advantage of every situation to the fullest exstint possible, so that is just a crazy question, however, just b/c politics takes something and blows it out of proportion does not mean that it is not real or that it is not important...

lastly, I think concern over global warming the degradtion of earth is proportional to your religious views on what you think is going to happen to earth...if you are a christian then you should not be too worried b/c you know that it is supposed to happen, but just dread the day that it gets to its worst spot :)