I deny Global Warming because ............?

Question

I own two gas stations. I think most people who deny global warming are on the same boat with me.

Answer 1

I agree wealthy pigs deny everything if they have to give up anything.

Answer 2

.....Science is not a consensus activity

Here is truth about global warming:

Global warming is one-half of the climatic cycle of warming and cooling.
The earth's mean temperature cycles around the freezing point of water.
This is a completely natural phenomenon which has been going on since there has been water on this planet. It is driven by the sun.
Our planet is currently emerging from a 'mini ice age', so is
becoming warmer and may return to the point at which Greenland is again usable as farmland (as it has been in recorded history).
As the polar ice caps decrease, the amount of fresh water mixing with oceanic water will slow and perhaps stop the thermohaline cycle (the oceanic heat 'conveyor' which, among other things, keeps the U.S. east coast warm).
When this cycle slows/stops, the planet will cool again and begin to enter another ice age.

It's been happening for millions of years.

The worrisome and brutal predictions of drastic climate effects are based on computer models, NOT CLIMATE HISTORY.
As you probably know, computer models are not the most reliable of sources, especially when used to 'predict' chaotic systems such as weather.

Global warming/cooling, AKA 'climate change':
Humans did not cause it.
Humans cannot stop it.

Answer 3

I think we can't deny that we have had a negative impact on the environment. You are not really the cause friend. It is the way society is. Honestly, most Americans would rather drive a big *** V8 with all kinds of power, and terrible handling than worry about the environment (coming from an American). I am terrified about what the future may hold. Just in my lifetime (30 yrs) I have seen changes in my area that frighten me.

Now we are scape goating a moose for problems that people need to worry about.lol
Seriously, it is a sad state of affairs when we start pointing a finger at mother nature for killing mother nature.

Answer 4

what is the worse case scenario if you do believe in global warming????? lets see:
1 the u.s. will cut its dependency on foreign oil.
2 we will all get to breathe cleaner air. (if you don't believe me run a hose from the tailpipe of your car into the cab of the vehicle and breathe) just kidding you get the point!
3 less traffic, less time wasted sitting in your car
4 if we use solar or wind generated energy we would save money and not generate hazardous waste like that from nuclear energy that sits around for 100,s of years

I would just like to ask one question. Why are so many conservatives against conserving?

Answer 5

I guess every single cretin on here will have to post the moose story before we hear the last of it. Certainly as sound as the rest of their "science". I sure wish they'd hurry it up. After a while normal people get tired of fart jokes.

Yes I saw the Gingrich story. There are LOTS more. These disinformation artists try to paint GW as a liberal or "Left Wing" issue. Did you ever hear anything so intergalactically stupid in all your life? If these half-witted thugs want to claim the Right Wing as their personal territory, they can expect to get their whiny crybaby butts kicked by every actual conservative in the country. Get 'em Newt!

I think the original question is the sad reality of the situation. Not too much that can be added.

Answer 6

Whereas people who support global warming are honest, and are not influenced by money.

Mathematician & engineer Dr. David Evans, who did carbon accounting for the Australian Government
"Evans noted how he benefited from climate fears as a scientist. “And the political realm in turn fed money back into the scientific community. By the late 1990's, lots of jobs depended on the idea that carbon emissions caused global warming. Many of them were bureaucratic, but there were a lot of science jobs created too. I was on that gravy train, making a high wage in a science job that would not have existed if we didn't believe carbon emissions caused global warming. And so were lots of people around me; and there were international conferences full of such people. And we had political support, the ear of government, big budgets, and we felt fairly important and useful (well, I did anyway)."

Paleoclimatologist Tim Patterson, of Carlton University in Ottawa:

Patterson says his conversion “probably cost me a lot of grant money. However, as a scientist I go where the science takes me and not were activists want me to go.” Patterson now asserts that more and more scientists are converting to climate skeptics. "When I go to a scientific meeting, there's lots of opinion out there, there's lots of discussion (about climate change). I was at the Geological Society of America meeting in Philadelphia in the fall and I would say that people with my opinion were probably in the majority,” Patterson told the Winnipeg Sun on February 13, 2007. Patterson, who believes the sun is responsible for the recent warm up of the Earth, ridiculed the environmentalists and the media for not reporting the truth. "But if you listen to [Canadian environmental activist David] Suzuki and the media, it's like a tiger chasing its tail. They try to outdo each other and all the while proclaiming that the debate is over but it isn't -- come out to a scientific meeting sometime,”

Answer 7

Yes, you're not worried because you think that global warming is not going to affect you. But how about your children? How are you going to answer to them when they ask you who caused global warming?

Answer 8

I deny Global Warming because it a media/democrat ran SHAM!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously......scientists have said time and time again that the earth warms and cools in cycles every so many years!!!!!! This is just another way the Dems are trying to "scare" the public.........Ohh ohhh vote for me and I'll fix global warming...I'll waste more tax dollars!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 9

What does that have too do with it? I deny it because its a lie, and out right lie in as far as man having any effect on it.

Answer 10

Kelly - Global warming is a Democrat thing?????

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

"Pat Robertson (very conservative Christian leader) 'It is getting hotter and the ice caps are melting and there is a build up of carbon dioxide in the air. We really need to do something on fossil fuels.”

Ford Motor Company CEO William Clay Ford, Jr. "I believe there is now more than enough evidence of climate change to warrant an immediate and comprehensive - but considered - response. Anyone who disagrees is, in my view, still in denial."

"The science of global warming is clear. We know enough to act now. We must act now."

James Rogers, CEO of Charlotte-based Duke Energy.

"Global warming is real, now, and it must be addressed."

Lee Scott, CEO, Wal-Mart Company

"Republican governors team up against global warming"

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Republican_Governors_team_up_against_Global_0716.html

"the overwhelming number of scientists now believe that there is significant human cause,'' Giuliani said, adding the debate on the existence of global warming "is almost unnecessary ... ''

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/13/GIULIANI.TMP

"(from Republicans for Environmental Protection) The consensus of almost all climate scientists is that global warming is already happening, that human actions are causing it, and that it will cause major problems for our planet."

http://www.rep.org/news/GEvol5/ge5.1_globalwarming.html

"National Review published a cover story this past week calling on conservatives to shake off denial and get into the climate policy debate"

eric c - Where's your data? Here's mine, from the Source below:

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png

You quote two scientists with no data, just opinions. Here are thousands on the other side, who have data proving their case:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686

"The fact that the community overwhelmingly supports the consensus is evidenced by picking up any copy of Journal of Climate or similar, any scientific program at the meetings, or simply going to talk to scientists. I challenge you, if you think there is some un-reported division, show me the hundreds of abstracts that support your view - you won't be able to. You can argue whether the consensus is correct, or what it really implies, but you can't credibly argue it doesn't exist."

Dr. James Baker - NOAA

Answer 11

It's not an either/or choice for "believing" or denying. Science either is or isn't.

No one can predict the future, no one can show their prediction caused by warming, no one can determine what is in store for us in 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, or 5 years.

The only thing warmers have is that they will point to a hurricane, a flood, a drought, somewhere warm, somewhere cool and blame man. The followers will believe.