there are some of you who claim global warming is not man made, but gods will?

Question

will you please read this article and give me your thoughts?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20122975/site/newsweek/

it starts off like this:

"Warming of the climate system is unequivocal," concluded a report by 600 scientists from governments, academia, green groups and businesses in 40 countries. Worse, there was now at least a 90 percent likelihood that the release of greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels is causing longer droughts, more flood-causing downpours and worse heat waves, way up from earlier studies. Those who doubt the reality of human-caused climate change have spent decades disputing that. But Boxer figured that with "the overwhelming science out there, the deniers' days were numbered." As she left a meeting with the head of the international climate panel, however, a staffer had some news for her. A conservative think tank long funded by ExxonMobil, she told Boxer, had offered scientists $10,000 to write articles undercutting the new report and the computer-based climate models it is based on. "I realized," says Boxer, "there was a movement behind this that just wasn't giving up."

Answer 1

This is just one example of the ways that the largest corporations influence legislation and public thinking. They really don't care about our future, as long as they can make money off of us now. And if they ruin the planet, hey that's just another opportunity to increase profits.

Don't forget that they hid data about the dangers of Vioxx as well.

Answer 2

Well I have a conspiracy theory that it's a hoax. Yes the climate is different now than it was but I've heard and read lesser known reports but still published in a national newspaper that the temperature fluctuations, warmer climate reflects the activity of the Sun, Solar flares but does not correlate with greenhouse gas emissions. The government at least here in the UK always seem to be scaremongering creating fear; terrorism,foot & mouth, BSE, Climate change. What next? Yes the world to some extent is 'going to the dogs' but then there have always been wars and troubles of some kind. Crises make good news headlines and could contribute to an agenda of stricter control, e.g we will protect you but will have to take away your freedom in order to do so. Unfortunately its got to get worse before it can get better.
Thanks to Martin S. (see above) for the detail.

Answer 3

Interesting question, and informative article.
My first reaction was the obvious "Well, here's more proof that you really can't trust 'science'...these guys will say anything for the right price...even sell our their own grandchildren!" Because, that is exactly what these guys are doing...selling out our chilren's future.
But why?
Why are these huge companies so insistent that they will destroy the earth for profit? How much money is enough? What, exactly, could they be gaining, at this point? Surely they realize by now, that sooner or later, what they do will affect them, even in their ivory towers?
And why, in the name of Heaven, are these scientists willing to go along with them, when they know better? How can we trust 'science' when it's spokespeople are ready to say whatever the highest bidder is willing to pay them to say?
Where, if anywhere, is there any integrity among men?

Ahh, but there it is, isn't it? There is no integrity, anywhere, among men.
Just as prophecied.
Global warming is, indeed, man made.
And men are made by God.
And here is the answer to the question so many have asked...how could God "harden Pharoah's heart"...because Pharoah's heart was set on himself...just as the hearts of these "captains of industry" are set on themselves...just as the hearts of these lying scientists are set on themselves...
And, in the long run, the price will be the same...
Our children.

Answer 4

Martin S put it very well if I COULD give a thumbs up i would. It has been shown through scientific means that IF the polar ice caps in the north were to melt the north atlantic current would change direction and would start to circulate near greenland causeing the north to freeze again. The earth goes through temperature changes around every 10,000 years anyways so what is to worry about we will be fine. I should also add that we play a very little role in the warming of the earth it naturally heals itself so even if it does get hot there will be a balance.

Answer 5

Wow.
I think I'll go with the UNs findings thaks.




Martin S.?
You might want to check into Mr. A. B. Robinson and Mr. Z. Robinson's backgrounds as well as check the blurb at the bottom of the article you cite, the part where it says "Material presented on this home page constitutes opinion of the author. "

Answer 6

Careful Tests

The global-warming hypothesis, however, is no longer tenable. Scientists have been able to test it carefully, and it does not hold up. During the past 50 years, as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have risen, scientists have made precise measurements of atmospheric temperature. These measurements have definitively shown that major atmospheric greenhouse warming of the atmosphere is not occurring and is unlikely ever to occur.

The temperature of the atmosphere fluctuates over a wide range, the result of solar activity and other influences. During the past 3,000 years, there have been five extended periods when it was distinctly warmer than today. One of the two coldest periods, known as the Little Ice Age, occurred 300 years ago. Atmospheric temperatures have been rising from that low for the past 300 years, but remain below the 3,000-year average.

Why are temperatures rising? The first chart nearby shows temperatures during the past 250 years, relative to the mean temperature for 1951-70. The same chart shows the length of the solar magnetic cycle during the same period. Close correlation between these two parameters--the shorter the solar cycle (and hence the more active the sun), the higher the temperature--demonstrates, as do other studies, that the gradual warming since the Little Ice Age and the large fluctuations during that warming have been caused by changes in solar activity.

The highest temperatures during this period occurred in about 1940. During the past 20 years, atmospheric temperatures have actually tended to go down, as shown in the second chart, based on very reliable satellite data, which have been confirmed by measurements from weather balloons.

Consider what this means for the global-warming hypothesis. This hypothesis predicts that global temperatures will rise significantly, indeed catastrophically, if atmospheric carbon dioxide rises. Most of the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide has occurred during the past 50 years, and the increase has continued during the past 20 years. Yet there has been no significant increase in atmospheric temperature during those 50 years, and during the 20 years with the highest carbon dioxide levels, temperatures have decreased.

In science, the ultimate test is the process of experiment. If a hypothesis fails the experimental test, it must be discarded. Therefore, the scientific method requires that the global warming hypothesis be rejected.

Why, then, is there continuing scientific interest in "global warming"? There is a field of inquiry in which scientists are using computers to try to predict the weather--even global weather over very long periods. But global weather is so complicated that current data and computer methods are insufficient to make such predictions. Although it is reasonable to hope that these methods will eventually become useful, for now computer climate models are very unreliable. The second chart shows predicted temperatures for the past 20 years, based on the computer models. It's not surprising that they should have turned out wrong--after all the weatherman still has difficulty predicting local weather even for a few days. Long-term global predictions are beyond current capabilities.

So we needn't worry about human use of hydrocarbons warming the Earth. We also needn't worry about environmental calamities, even if the current, natural warming trend continues: After all the Earth has been much warmer during the past 3,000 years without ill effects.

But we should worry about the effects of the hydrocarbon rationing being proposed at Kyoto. Hydrocarbon use has major environmental benefits. A great deal of research has shown that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide accelerate the growth rates of plants and also permit plants to grow in drier regions. Animal life, which depends upon plants, also increases.

Standing timber in the United States has already increased by 30% since 1950. There are now 60 tons of timber for every American. Tree-ring studies further confirm this spectacular increase in tree growth rates. It has also been found that mature Amazonian rain forests are increasing in biomass at about two tons per acre per year. A composite of 279 research studies predicts that overall plant growth rates will ultimately double as carbon dioxide increases.

Lush Environment

What mankind is doing is moving hydrocarbons from below ground and turning them into living things. We are living in an increasingly lush environment of plants and animals as a result of the carbon dioxide increase. Our children will enjoy an Earth with twice as much plant and animal life as that with which we now are blessed. This is a wonderful and unexpected gift from the industrial revolution.

Hydrocarbons are needed to feed and lift from poverty vast numbers of people across the globe. This can eventually allow all human beings to live long, prosperous, healthy, productive lives. No other single technological factor is more important to the increase in the quality, length and quantity of human life than the continued, expanded and unrationed use of the Earth's hydrocarbons, of which we have proven reserves to last more than 1,000 years. Global warming is a myth. The reality is that global poverty and death would be the result of Kyoto's rationing of hydrocarbons.

Arthur Robinson and Zachary Robinson are chemists at the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine.

Answer 7

the bible says that GOD will destroy the earth by fire and brimstone.i've often wondered if this is not the cause of global warming. as the bible also says the end of time is near.

Answer 8

God created a perfect world. Humans have screwed it up.

Answer 9

Take some of them and tie near fire, don't throw in and tell this is God's will.

Answer 10

It's been predicted in the bible. People have turned their backs on God and therfore he let's it happen.