As any level headed person knows, climate change actually figures pretty low on the agenda when it comes to prioritizing the world's problems, but you wouldn't have thought that from the hysteria and crud flying around.
I thought I'd seen the worst example of this when I discovered a website peddling for a "Climate Genocide Criminal Prosecutions Bill".
http://www.climatecriminals.co.uk/#aim
Apparently not. Today I found this ridiculous climate change 'survival guide', complete with instructions on how to replicate Noah's Ark.
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=56410&in_page_id=34
Has anyone else found climate garbage around that rivals this stuff on the scale of grand human stupidity?
2007-07-21 12:41:00 · 12 answers · asked by throbbin 3 in Environment ➔ Global Warming
Yes, we'll find out in October just how far this lunacy will go...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16920923/
2007-07-21 17:34:08 · answer #1 · answered by 3DM 5 · 2⤊ 4⤋
I am thinking there is lots of room for more hysteria. It is pretty bad right now as you point out and that is with only the smallest tip of the Global-Warming-Consequences iceberg being glimpsed, no pun intended. You see 50-100 years from now when GW is in rip roaring full swing I am guessing hysteria will really start to kick in. With sea levels up a few feet flooding hundreds of millions, and with most of the worlds current agricultural lands converted to desert, and with vast numbers of people without drinking water, and with hurricanes hitting a major US Atlantic city every couple of years, I am thinking hysteria might become the norm.
I agree with you completely: Ignoring climate change most certainly qualifies as the all-time top of the grand human stupidity scale.
2007-07-21 20:50:27 · answer #2 · answered by Engineer 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Sure. It's called "The Great Global Warming Swindle.
See this for why:
http://www.durangobill.com/Swindle_Swindle.html
And, is a worldwide economic Depression because of the cost of dealing with unreduced global warming (coastal flooding, damage to agriculture, etc.) "low on the agenda"?
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/10/30/warming.report/index.html
Yes, the stuff you found is over the top. But serious people know what's at stake here:
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/17/ap3923692.html
The page takes a little while to load.
2007-07-21 20:00:31 · answer #3 · answered by Bob 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Nice link Bob. "The Business Roundtable, which represents 160 chief executives of leading U.S. companies" and "is an association of CEOs of major corporations, representing a combined work force of more than 10 million employees and $4.5 trillion in annual revenues", says that "its members agree that reducing the amount of carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere should be a top priority". "Its members include major energy companies including Exxon Mobil Corp. (nyse: XOM - news - people ), Peabody Energy (nyse: BTU - news - people ) Co., the country's largest coal producer".
Nice to see some changes being made.
2007-07-21 20:27:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anders 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Do you honesttly think it's to be taken seriously when someone encourages you to establish your own menagerie of animals in your back garden consisting of pandas, tigers, polar bears and penguins?
Or that a fringe website calling for the death penalty and sequestration of the family assets of people who don't tow the line is serious?
A reality check is needed.
2007-07-21 21:27:08 · answer #5 · answered by Trevor 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Stupid Al Gore is making a big deal of it.
By Gore being a so-called spokesperson for global warming, it's adding fuel to the fire of the Gore followers.
Let nature take it's course. Not even the all powerful Gore can change nature. The earth has been changing for 6,000 yrs, It's people like Gore who get people worked up about it.
Let nature take it's course, nothing we can do about it.
2007-07-22 02:18:47 · answer #6 · answered by RC Collns 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
What? Global warming is about .01 deg C per year. We don't know for sure if it is due to our CO2 production yet. Much of the data used to come up with this theory is still in question. It is only a theory at this point. Some scientists have data that shows no increase, or even cooling. Lets get real.
2007-07-21 20:20:18 · answer #7 · answered by GABY 7 · 1⤊ 5⤋
You bet it can. Never underestimate how hysterical people can get. They can even get so hysterical that they will hijack an airliner full of people and crash it into a tall building full of other people, killing themselves and all those people.
2007-07-21 22:38:17 · answer #8 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, definitely I have....yikes...this one scares the living day lights out of me because I can't believe people can be this ignorant...
2007-07-21 19:49:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
sure..
we got so many morons who believe all that crap
and are brainwashed into thinking American is evil
sure glad im retiring soon... get me the hell away from
idiots ..
and a note for you environmental boo hooers..
we couldn't screw up this planet if we tried..
mother nature does more damage to herself in year
then us puny humans have in the total time we have walked on her
2007-07-22 00:08:08 · answer #10 · answered by pokerfaces55 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Any level headed person would not use fringe non-information to fight Global Warming science.
If you want to talk grand stupidity please address religion.
OR -- if you're really interested go to ==
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/
2007-07-21 20:20:19 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋