Are you doing your part to reduce climate change hysteria?

Question

of course seeing through al gore and the united nations is commendable, but what actions are you taking to combat the big lie? we can stamp out enviromental whackoism in our lifetime, but only if we work together.

SILENCE! all you little commies are not allowed to answer this question.

Answer 1

Here's a point that people need to know about the whole "SUV" thing. The activists want me to sell my SUV and buy a new car that gets great gas mileage. If I sell it on the open market or trade it in, someone is buying it and continuing to "pollute." At the same time I've brought another vehicle into the world that is creating emissions.

Sorry to rant on here, but I love my SUV. I drive it and it fits me well as a tall person. I don't want to be cramped into a car that I can't stretch my legs out in or that my head hits the ceiling. My SUV loves to go off road. I tow a boat with it. I haul gear for camping with it. My SUV has room to carry 7-8 people without giving up comfort for anybody. I only owe a few hundred dollars more on it. I would much rather continue payments on it and pay more in gas than paying a huge payment for a new car and saving some money on gas.

Answer 2

The best I've come up with is to disable the whole debate about global warming by switching the focus elsewhere. This does involve giving the "believer" some dignity.

No problem in observing that its getting warmer, in general. The history of temperature measurement and climate change shows that this is so. And it would be so with or without human activity, just as it has in the past.

And no problem pointing to human activity as a contributor. How can it NOT be? We use energy, we create heat. Even if we did nothing but sit still all day long we would be creating heat.

And so, I agree to all of that.

Where I part ways with the alarmists is on the philisophical basis that we'll end up a in a world of hurt if we don't do something NOW. That is to say, our behavior is conditioned not out of some appreciation for our natural surroundings, but rather on the fear of a stiff penalty if we don't behave. Same warnings we have received from parents: "Just wait til your Father gets home!"

A lot of what I do would please the extreme environmentalists; I harvest rain water, grow my own food without artificial chemical support, make new stuff out of old stuff, employ solar energy, drive an economical car economically and not often, and live with as small a footprint as I can, although I'm not excessive or obsessive about it. The reason for this is that I simply want to ineract with my environment in a way that supports it -and I would do and have been doing this whether the climate was changing or not.

And so, my whole approach is positive in nature. What the alarmists seem to be saying -between the lines- is that if there WERE no emergency or threat of one- then we could all carry on with total disregard for what's around us, other people, etc.

Whenever I encounter one of the "wacko's" I tell them that the good part about their alarm is that it has called attention to the way we live, the things we do which might be regarded as excessive in their own right. Then I ask what they would do -what everyone should do- if there were no threat of some global disaster. Would that make it OK for everyone to drive a gas-guzzler? OK to polllute the skies and water? OK to live with wreckless abandon -since we won't get "caught?" In other words, do you observe conservation efforts because something bad will happen if you don't? Or is it because you simply think it is a good way to live? Do you tell the truth because of fear of getting caught in a lie? Or do you tell the truth because it is good to do so?

You get my drift: I simply try to deflect the thinking from a global disaster of uncertain time and occurrence -to their VALUES. This gets them to stop looking at Al Gore and other psychiatric cases -and start looking at THEMSELVES.

That's the best I know how to do.

Answer 3

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MAN MADE CLIMATIC CHANGES
Man is responsible for much climate change it cannot be whitewashed by Global warming
If Global warming now also want to change the climate it has to stand in line
because it is not the only one,

I went to the jungles of Oaxaca and discussed with the Natives the mountain before us ,Mostly deforrested ,scarred by landslides and dotted with madly steep corn patches (which only produced for 3 years ),and devoid of clouds.

They all agreed that the days were hotter ,there was less rain ,And the river was dry part of the year.

When they were boys ,the river was bigger and ran all year around,the mountain was always covered in clouds with daily rains .And the days were more bearable .

Their actions in the desperate plight to feed their enormous families of avarage 12 kids per family ,often much more ,had destroyed their home ground with indisputable climate changes.
They had changed their climate.This happens all over Mexico

In Africa I have seen lush wooded lands change into dessert within a few years by large invading comunities ,who devoured the trees for building and firewood ending up in a dessert with out water
and with a hot sun under which no new plantation was possible.The people had changed their climate,this happens all over Africa.

In Northern china two mayor dessert are merging and 900 vilages are buried under the dust ,thousands of refugee farmers who had changed their climate ,by intensive agressive agriculture are fleeing for their lives,

This happens all over the world .it happened in the 20ties in the USA has everybody forgotton that ,was this not a climate change ?

Granted the climatic changes are local ,but effects neighboring areas ,there is less rainfall, rivers dry up ,

Compare todays situation with what the place used to look like .

And understand how People have totaly changed their Environment and subsequently their climate
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Add all of this together,from all over the globe, and calculate the results .Collectively because there is so much of it ,the global precipitation is affected,(the sweet water production) and so is the climate .
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Like Ghengas Kahn changed the climate when he burned all the forests and filled the wells with sand ,Like the Phoenicians changed the climate of lebanon to build the trading fleet .Like the Spanish climate was changed by using their forest to build the Armada ,

So are we today changing the climate by massive deforestation,agressive corporate farming (using chemicals),overgrazing ,overpumping deep subteranean waters ,ignorence and impartiality

And read up what America is planning with the insane master plan for Ethanol production


Global warming.carbon emisions ,polution ,sunspots ,solar flares,hairsprays , and skeptics are the rasberries on top

Seems as if America is trying to compete with Global warming

I wonder who will win.?
but who ever it is ,
the rest of the world looses.

We are in trouble,and if we can do something that will make it less ,we should try to do it .

And there are many things that we can improve on
so that ,we can at least last as long as posible .

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Answer 4

Here's a couple of non commies for you:

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

Pat Robertson said, he believes “it is getting hotter and the ice caps are melting and there is a build up of carbon dioxide in the air.” Robertson implored, “we really need to do something on fossil fuels.”

Answer 5

I am doing nothing to silence this behaviour. it is good for the global economy. Jobs are created in alternative energy. Car makers must develop more efficient cars. Smart people already know that the earth climate varies cyclicly. We need only sit back and watch the entertainment..LOL.

Answer 6

LOL
I love people who respond that they are doing their part to reduce climate change when no one yet has even explained how we effect the climate.
Good luck with that!
I needed a good laugh this morning.

Answer 7

I'm not doing anything to reduce climate change "hysteria," but I'm trying my best as an individual to reduce climate change problems.

Answer 8

Actually, there is no hysteria yet. Perhaps someday but at the moment people are taking the facts well.

Answer 9

trying to do my share in here by telling the kool-aid drinkers they are wrong, don't think they are buying it though, their not to bright you know, so that makes it kind of hard.

Answer 10

I don't know. I'll look into it after I finish my ark.