Does the USA just not care?

Question

2,500 independant scientists say global warming is here and now and we have to act today.
USA's voted President says we will take a look at the problem tomorrow.
So, whilst in Britain and other countries it is an offence to put
the wrong stuff in the wrong bin, America plods happily on with a committment to start doing something 'tomorrow'.

Does he just not care. Or does he not believe the scientific
evidence. Or is he more interested in the economic state of
the United States of America.

Tony Blair, Prime Minister UK, with his dying words in office, has committed the UK to doing their best to help the situation,
and for once the country are behind him.

Why does the USA act completely indifferently in a matter
which will affect their children and grandchildren and the rest
of the world?

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Answer 1

Isnt global warming a myth and whats the worst case scenario?

Environmentally friendly policy is great if the transition can be made simple - Branson has done really well to bring in an Environmentally clean train... I am for environmental policies that would aid a cleaner environment in the short and long terms and may include stopping harmful ommissions that contribute to bad health but to the global warming???

Answer 2

Actually, alot of scientists now are starting to disown the theory and distance themselves from it as it isn't entirely accurate. They know, when all their theories don't surface the governments will point the blame at them, and all the expense occured by the general public will start an uproar, they'll hold their hands up and say "It wasn't us, we were working on what they told us".

At the moment the threat of global warming is just a 'get-rich-quick' scheme and many people are exploiting, especially in the UK. It is useless having wind turbines in the UK when we're surrounded and ran through by water! I don't buy into Global warming, but I do buy into using natural power provided by land and wind turbines are a joke, the only reason they are favoured over water turbines is because they require constant maintence funding some company with money, and cost a lot more compared to waterwheels, hydropower should be the way forward. It worked well for most towns during the industrial era before they all got rid of them.

Answer 3

I think hundreds of millions of cars pouring out billions of tons of hydroflurocarbons and other pollutants as well as the petroleum based industrial fuel sources that have been polluting the atmosphere over the past 150 years are the source of global warming.

People get hysterical over "second-hand cigarette smoke", but then jump into an SUV that puts out more toxic gases in ten minutes than a smoker can produce in a year.

I trust the "independent scientists" that say man-made pollution causes global warming because the oil companies, like the cigarette companies, have deep pockets to fund "research" that points the finger away from them.

I think the American people are definitely concerned about this, considering the amount of controversy this raises, but the power rests with the money....and that's in the hands of the very people who are causing the damage.

Answer 4

So if all the countries in the world do not jump on this liberal tree hugging band wagon we are the ones who do not care????

Perhaps you should think about who feeds the world. AMERICA does.

Now for your al gore the world is ending story.

For the reports you produce there are reports that say the opposite. Look at the 70's they said we would freeze (global cooling) what happened??? That not go good so we move to global warming???

As stated in another response, Mars has warming, how did that happen????? Maybe al gore was there and opened his mouth and added some. Wait carbon credits. Doesn't he own that company??? Seems he learned a lot form the 2 hillbilly's in the White House. (bill and hill)

Answer 5

.Frankly I am beginning to treat this as yet another way to tax us. I do not dispute that there is global warming it is a fact of life. However I would suggest that there is not a thing we can do about it. It is a natural thing which ebbs and flows throughout the ages and has more to do with the state of the Sun. Our efforts are puerile. I would wish for fresh air in the cities as a matter of course. Perhaps this is what we should concentrate upon

I do not care what government scientist think because I know who pays them and the same applies to allegedly independent scientist carrying out this sort of research
They give the answer wanted or you get no more research grants

I have noticed that with the exception of Green Peace those who make the most noise are also those who stand to make the most money out of efforts to reduce the problem.

These are very crafty moves because it gets religious leaders on the side of those who will make the most money out of it, because they are naturally most concious of the need to take care of God's world. In other words we are being had for suckers

Answer 6

Of those 2,50 scientist many didn`t actually sign the papers but were included through their research labs/ groups who have direct funding from their governments,It would be financial suicide to not to sign up to the theories
The IPCC international policy committee for climate was set up in the early 1980s by the then UK PM Mrs Thatcher with Leon Brittan as it`s first director and put into the UN as a task group to find a correlation between fissile fuels and global warming all done to decry the use of coal and to develop nuclear fuelled power stations.
The end result of this is tax on flights and a way to control the third world.IE if you deny the third world the right to supply their own power through coal fired power stations you can effectively control their economies by selling them the raw materials for their society and green fuel options like renewable energies , wind farms, solar power etc all the things they cant afford anyway.
Global warming is a natural cycle of the earth as is global cooling ,we the human race contribute just less than 0.5% of all the co2 emmisions,the rest coming from natural earth cycles.
It is a global conspiracy by the industrialised nations to control everything

Answer 7

'Perhaps the U.S.A. has taken the stance on the other side of scientific evidence and that is, that there is no such thing as man made Global Warming.

We know the weather is getting warmer in some parts of the world (and colder in other parts) but according to some scientists, this is due to nature.

Having read much on this subject, I am inclined to believe in the latter theory.

It's like everything else...one day you read, eggs are bad for you and the next that they are good.

Lately, every day when you open the newspapers, you will find something, that many people have eaten all of their long lives, has been 'proven' to cause "this or that" and is detrimental to your health and could shorten your life by a decade or so.

If you believed everything you are told, for sure you would die of starvation!

Ho Hum!

Answer 8

The USA spends more on defence around a trillion dollars than on education, health, welfare and all the important stuff put together. They want to rule the world by force and economics. It's all falling apart - look at New Orleans - how long has it been since hurricane Katrina and they beg for hang outs from us British. The American people have an idiot as a president with a funny walk - the defence industry has him in their pocket. Go to good old Texas and learn to kill - guns, lethal injections, they have the lot!

Apologies to my American friends - you can't choose your President or your brand of capitalism.

Answer 9

It's the leaders of the countries concerned who have a responsibility to do right by their own people first. Because this is a global issue the Nations must be United.

India, China and the US are the biggest offenders of carbon emissions - all people as individuals can effect a reduction by choosing the fly no more than once in any one year, that is only one of the actions we can take as responsible individuals.

Do read the Observer's Headline re: Heat and Deadly Ozone
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Answer 10

Because we are not convinced it will happen,most of us are still living the "ice age" that hasn't happened ! We do all try to do what we can but the issue is so divided and we are unwilling to go back to the dark ages!No one yet has a plan for everyone,and the scientists are really split on this matter.If you quit talking about it it will go away.Besides the people have to have some level in a standard of living,no one is figureing that out yet so we sit with our common sence and don't cry wolf untill we see it.

Answer 11

no the US does not care.
bush has un-signed so many treaties it's hardly worth the paper they were written on.

here's the list.
the biodiversity treaty.
the Geneva conventions
the forest protection treaty
the nuclear non proliferation treaty
the comprehensive test ban treaty
the 1972 anti-ballistics missile treaty
the 1979 UN convention for the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women
the UN international covenant on economic, social & cultural rights
the chemical weapons conventions
the international criminal court

note the forest protection, that's the one that has enabled US interests to tear-down rain-forest to plant bio-fuels.
which early data has proved the emissions from are more pollutiing then oil-based fuels.
the links below can be trusted, they're just news items to back my comment.

i have to go to work, bye bye.
i'll be back to check on how this question's going later.