What has more supporting evidence Global Warming or WMDs in Iraq?

Answer 1

global warming , WMD's in Iraq is the easter bunny of the Bush administration.

Answer 2

Global Warming is the obvious answer. Global Warming is supported by scientific data and by the majority of the scientific community.
It is also a fact that there is a conspiracy to denounce Global Warming as a hoax. The reasons for this are complicated but can be simplified with one word. Money

I would rather discuss the "loser" in this question, because your question is designed to imply that there was never any cause to believe Iraq had WMDs.

Before the USA invaded Iraq, most of the world thought Iraq had WMDs. The United Nations was not in disagreement about the likelihood that Hussein was hiding something, they were just hung up on what to do about it.

After 9/11, President Bush gave a speech in which he clearly stated a new American International Policy.
He basically said that the USA was not going to tolerate any threats to American whether they were terrorist or national threats, the gloves were off.
see the below link for the actual speech...
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/20/gen.bush.transcript/

those that don't like Bush can say what they want, but he has never wavered from the stand he took in that speech. He may well be the first president in more than half a century who actually stuck to his word.

back to the WMD. It is necessary to understand how the intelligence community works. It isn't a though they can form all of their assumptions on hard informations. It is rarer than you think that the CIA or the NSA gets information from a source that is 100% reliable. Most info is extrapolated from surrounding circumstances.
Example:
You know subject B's job is to run money to the Caymans for people that want to hide their money. You know B received a check from a large legitimate business. Investigation seems to show that their finances are properly accounted for. You might assume...
...the business is doing something under the table.
...the CEO or other is embezzling cleverly
...or any number of alternatives.
In the intelligence community you get scraps of info like this, you watch and then make assumptions based on other's actions and reactions. Things are not always clear but the general picture is usually there. When things aren't black and white mistakes do get made, however that doesn't mean anyone was maliciously skewing the data.
Sometimes when they are right, they can't say either. What if they want to use their new avenue of info to turn a spy or another op. Can't put that on the evening news. Truly Americans are lucky that they have so many good people in government, from the intelligence community straight up to the President, that are willing to take a slap in the face from the American people and media, and still do what is in the best interests of this country.
None of us can presume to know whether or not what the US government is doing is right. We do not have all of the information the President and his advisors have, and we should not be privy to that information.
Most of the information that would help the American people understand what is going on is available openly and yet the American people largely remain ignorant and point fingers.
The bottom line is, at some point the the intelligence community and the President and his advisors thought they had enough evidence to support Iraq having WMD. Whether or not they were right remains to be seen. The truth is, there is a good chance that WMDs were recovered and for reasons of security the details were never publicly revealed.
The next link is a good example of how Saddam made himself look suspicious.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020917-8.html
this last link I think sums it up pretty well for me.
http://www.senate.gov/~rockefeller/news/2002/flrstmt0102002.html

Answer 3

Global Warming, obviously.

We've been there for like forever now and have yet to find any WMD's. I'm pretty sure that speaks of ZERO evidence so because Global Warming has some evidence, it wins.

Answer 4

Currently WMD's in Iraq. All the current science about Global warming is not supported by the math. The statement by former VP Gore that the ice cap on Greenland is melting and it is going to raise sea level by twenty some feet would require a chunk of ice covering the entire surface of Greenland to a depth of 26 miles. Do you see such a mass of ice anywhere in the world. Antarctica would have to have one approximately 4.9 miles deep Therefore the three old Chemical Weapons Shells found as parts of IEDs are more supporting evidence for WMD's in Iraq than exist for Global Warming in my opinion.

Sage,
I must disagree with you on Global warming on strictly mathematics. Do the math!!! How many Cubic miles of ice are required to raise sea level one foot? That number alone is astonishing and the amount required to raise it the advertised 200+ feet just does not exist on this planet. Because the proponents of GW lied about this I can not believe any of their science.

Answer 5

Global Warming.

It has been proven that Iraq had no WMDs.

Answer 6

Right now the only evidence about WMDs in Iraq is that there aren't any and weren't any when we attacked them.

At the start of the war the only evidence for WMDs in Iraq was falsified by the Bush Admin.

On the other hand, there is TONS of supporting evidence for not just global warming, but anthropogenic global warming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png
http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6290228.stm
http://www.springerlink.com/content/v16165n11948081m/fulltext.pdf

Answer 7

Well global warming is actually happening. Of the last ten years, eight were the warmest on record. Even many global warming 'deniers' admit that the atmosphere is warming up, they just insist it isn't caused by man, or that we can't do anything about it (or don't need to).

OTOH the WMD in Iraq were never found. Our govt. listed them and said they even knew where they were, but once they invaded Iraq they never found any. After several months of 'searching', our govt. admitted that they never existed, that they were just a pretense for invading, not the 'real' reason.

Before we invaded, UN inspectors went all over Iraq. Our govt. says Saddam kicked them out, but he never did, they left because we warned them we were about to start bombing. They got good cooperation from the Iraqis, but found nothing.

Before the first Gulf War, we sold Iraq chemicals to make chemical weapons, and biological samples to make bio weapons, and we trained them in their use. But after the 1st Gulf War, Iraq was embargoed and nobody would sell them weapons. If they had weapons left over from before the 1990s, they would be way past their shelf life.

Answer 8

properly the international warming factor has been around a lot longer then Iraq. the place there have been WMD's they have evidence from Iraqi generals asserting they gutted hundreds of plane and flew them out to Lebanon and Syria.

Answer 9

There is definitive evidence of global warming , zero evidence of wmds in Iraq.

Answer 10

Global Warming. You can see the effects all over the world. The temperature is rising and the amount of ice at the poles is going down. WMD's was just Bush's way of trying to convince idiots in the United States to go to war, and I guess it worked.