Why do people belive this "Global Warming" crap!!??

Question

If you have a reason why global warming is real or not, say it.
I would like to hear everyones veiws. Mine are that it is not happening...

Also i am trying to convince my friend that it is not real if you have any eveidence saying that it is not happening please tell me that as well.

Thanks

I actually have alot of evidence all i need is to show him that there are other people who agree with what i am saying

also this friend has already agreed that gw isn't happening so all i want now is you to say what you think

Answer 1

People have been misled into thinking we humans have ''caused'' global warming. And that's because there is a ''natural'' warming going on. Over time it will be followed by a cooling, which in turn will be followed by yet another warming and so on. There is nothing to panic about. The world as we know it will not end. We are not all going to perish as a result of this warming trend. Just about everything we understand to date has a pattern. This wave pattern occurs often in nature, including ocean waves, sound waves, and light waves.All of these can be graphed or illustrated with a sine wave, and as a result can then be monitored and analyzed. In the case of global temperature we just don't have enough accurate data yet to ''plot'' a pattern which would help us predict coming changes. Don't forget, the only accurate recorded data we have dates back only about 100 years, everything else is just theories and guesswork. So you see, it's just a natural cycle. In fact, if we could and did change global warming we may in fact do greater damage to the Earth's future as this current warming may be vital to it's ecosystem!


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Answer 2

I do believe in Global Climate 'change'. Whether it is warming, there is a lot of evidence showing that - but my belief is closer to home. I remember as a small boy, we would have 3-4 feet of snow a year. It was cool in the spring, summer was hot & muggy. All the seasons fit well into my belief of what seasons normally would be. In the last 2 decades, things have changed. Less snow, summer starting earlier, generally wierder weather. When I ask my mom, she remembers her childhood with generally the same as when I was young.
This isn't a trip down memory lane, rather it is just anedotal evidence that something is changing - and it's changing fast enough for one generation to notice it.
Whether you believe in it or not isn't the question, rather, will you do something (one thing) that is more friendly to the earth.

Answer 3

Global warming is proven scientific fact.

Because of two closely related things. The peer reviewed scientific data shows clearly that it's real. And AS A RESULT there is a massive scientific consensus. This will be a little long, because it contains substantiation, not wild assertions, and doesn't throw crazy numbers around without references.

"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 and the scientific community, short and long.

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

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

The real proof is in the references in these documents. It is necessary to go to a library and read them. Scientists do that routinely.

And, as a result, there is a massive scientific consensus. Every major scientific organization agrees.

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

Virtually all climatologists agree:

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

Here's what scientists say about the consensus:

"Regardless of these spats, the fact that the community overwhelmingly supports the consensus is evidenced by picking up any copy of Journal of Climate or similar, any scientific program at the AGU or EGU meetings, or simply going to talk to scientists (not the famous ones, the ones at your local university or federal lab). I challenge you, if you think there is some un-reported division, show me the hundreds of abstracts at the Fall meeting (the biggest confernce in the US on this topic) that support your view - you won't be able to. You can argue whether the consensus is correct, or what it really implies, but you can't credibly argue it doesn't exist."

Dr. James Baker - NOAA

"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

All this is why smart people in all walks of life who are not liberals or environmentalists have accepted global warming as real. Just a few examples:

"Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich challenged fellow conservatives Tuesday to stop resisting scientific evidence of global warming"

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

Rep. Dennis Hastert, Republican, Illinois

Hastert wouldn't agree with Gore about where to go for lunch, but he agrees about this.

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

Lee Scott, CEO, Wal-Mart

When Scott says this, he annoys his major supplier, China.

The real question is why have deniers fallen for a few skeptics, whose arguments are refuted by the data.

http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics

Good websites for more info:

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

http://www.realclimate.org

"climate science from climate scientists"

Answer 4

There is no question that global warming is happening right now. The only question is whether is human caused or it is a natural cycle of the Earth. The vast majority of scientist believe that global warming is caused by humans. Not being a scientist myself, I have to accept as the truth what those experts have to say about global warming. It doesn't hurt to be more efficient in the way we use our resources and energy, regardless of global warming or not; to me it is just the right thing to do.

Answer 5

We are actually very fortunate that we are in a natural Global Warming phase.

We are still coming out of an ice age. As recently as 10,000 years ago, a large part of the North American Continent, including a large part of the United States, was under a sheet of ice over one mile thick.

We are very fortunate that we entered a natural warming cycle and that ice sheet melted.

We are still in that warming cycle. However I doubt that you were really talking about that.

I suspect that what you are really talking about is the contribution to Global Warming caused by human activity.

Unfortunately the data on that subject is not quite so clear and much of it is conflicting.

The extreme left uses computer models and studies that support its position that human activity will cause Global Warming that will be devastating to the planet and all life on the planet.

The extreme left argues that we need to cut back our economic activity drastically to save the planet.

At least the extreme left is very honest and open about its position. They will tell you that they hate Capitalism, they want to bring about a socialist state and they see wrecking the United States economy as a necessary step toward that goal.

They will also tell you that if they can put enough restrictions on the U.S economy to severely damage the economy they see that is a good thing. They will also tell you that even if man made Global Warming does not exist, that if they can use new laws and regulations to damage the economy that is what is really important, not whether or not man made Global Warming is a problem.

I do not agree with the extreme left, but I do give them credit for at least being honest with me.


The extreme left ignores studies and computer models that conflict with its position and often claims that those studies are some how not competent.

The right of course does much the same. They use the data that supports their position that any contribution to Global Warming caused by human activity is so insignificant that it is really not worth considering, and they dismiss data to the contrary as somehow not competent.

Unfortunately a third very obnoxious group has managed to insert themselves into this debate.

They live wasteful lifestyles and propose simple solutions, such as turning off the lights when you leave a room as somehow being a solution to the problem.

They seem to think that not only does this give them license to continue their wasteful lifestyles, but they also act very self righteous towrd the rest of us as if they are the only people doing anything to solve the problem and of course the rest of us are just wasteful horrible people. Even though most of us use much less energy and much less fossil fuel than they do.

Some of these people are also making a great deal of money on this. For example Al Gore recently set up a company to sell phony carbon credits to rich liberals who want to continue to live in their enormous mansions and continue to fly their private jets without feeling guilty about their wasteful lifestyles. Al Gore will make several hundred million dollars from this venture.

It appears to me that this third group is causing a great deal of the rancor with their snottiness and self righteousness. I consider Al Gore to be the leader of this third group. I also place John Edwards and Nancy Pelosi in that group.

I suspect that much of the annoyance you have with this subject is a result of the behavior of this third group of people.

I think that it is a shame that this issue has become so politicized because there is a great deal that could be learned if we could get the politics out of the issue.

Unfortunately the data with respect to the contribution to Global Warming from human activity is so conflicting it does not appear to me to be possible to say exactly how much of a contribution human activity makes to Global Warming at this time.


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Answer 6

global warming is the biggest crock out there right now . in 1974 time magazine did a story on the next ice age saying that the world was cooling . now it's warming . give me a freaking break here . the earth is not some little fragile planet . it was here before any of us and will be here when we are all gone . I'll be damned if I'm gonna let a bunch of tree hugging do gooders stop me from living my life

Answer 7

Well from the word "crap" and the fact that you don't believe GW is happening for no apparent reason, I see you're very open-minded about the issue.

Sorry to break it to you, but even global warming skeptics admit that GW is real. They may dispute that humans are the primary cause (or even that humans contribute at all), but virtually nobody denies that global warming exists. You have to be rather ignorant to deny it, because global warming is a direcly measured effect. Average global temperature increases regularly = global warming.

Answer 8

This site explains it the best, as to why there is more evidence to support the theory that the sun is behind the current warming trend. The author of the report is Paleoclimatologist Tim Patterson, and if anybody think he is in it for financial reasons, he said: [My conversion from believer to climate skeptic] came about approximately 5-6 years ago when results began to come in from a major NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) Strategic Project Grant where I was PI (principle investigator),” Patterson explained. “Over the course of about a year, I switched allegiances,” he wrote. “As the proxy results began to come in, we were astounded to find that paleoclimatic and paleoproductivity records were full of cycles that corresponded to various sun-spot cycles. Patterson says his conversion “probably cost me a lot of grant money. However, as a scientist I go where the science takes me and not were activists want me to go."
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Reference_Docs/The_Geologic_Record_and_Climate_Change.pdf

Answer 9

Oh, you're trying to convince your friend it's not real and you need evidence? Oh, well that shows that you're not 100% sure that it's not real, you're just saying that because you don't want to be real. Wouldn't one look at all the evidence there is first, before deciding whether it's real or not?

Well, obviously, you got that evidence from somebody, or somewhere, it's not yours, you're not the one who did the research, so whomever you got it from, those are the people that don't belive this "Global Warming" crap!!

Answer 10

People believe this crap out of fear, or arrogance. one group feel that we can control the planets climate, weather it be for the good or bad. They feel that we can actually cause natural disasters and the like. They feel we can prevent them. Pipe dreams, and BS. If we could control the weather and the climate we would not need God anymore, who most of these people do not believe in. Makes GW so appealing. The other group of people believe out of fear that the world will end, and that it is better to err on the side of caution then die. Honestly, its a bunch of alarmists and environmental nutcases.