Why would global warming be a lie?

Question

There was a documentary on british TV recently and its aim was to dis prove globle warming.

I did not actually watch it myself so i am wondering WHY? would Global Warming be a lie?.

Please dont just answer 'money' without explaining how and who would benefit from it? and why would they?

Answer 1

Research scientists need scary scenarios to get grant money out of politicians.

The first politician to use the Global Warming Myth to her advantage, over her liberal opponents, was Margaret Thatcher. The American liberals grabbed the ball and took off with it after she was done, but it is still a myth.

What makes the confidence game work so well on its target marks is, Global Warming is real, only the Global Warming disaster scenarios are myths.

The earth has been completely ice free for most of its 4 billion plus year history. Every global disaster the earth has endured has driven global temperatures down. The correction of the symptoms of these global disasters, called Ice Ages, has always been and always will be Global Warming.

The current temperature of the earth is much closer to Ice Age disaster levels than stable Warm Period levels.

If Global Warming Alarmists would use the charts showing average temperatures going back 4 billion years and let people see where temperatures are now compared to the entire history of life on the earth, they would get no money, so they carefully avoid going back too far in earth's temperature history.

That's not what scientists do. It's what con artists and religious fanatics do when they are trying to con you out of your money.

Answer 2

First, no one actually claims that global warming is a lie. In fact almost everyone agrees that the average global temperature are increasing (i.e. global warming is real). The disagreement is on how much (if any) of the current warming trend is due to human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, and with regard to this debate, there is plenty of money to be made on both sides. But, to answer your question, we need to concentrate only on the proponents of man made global warming.

First, there are a large number of scientists who are operating under grants from government and international agencies and/or NGOs. These scientists are being paid to study the problem of man made climate change and to develop methods to mediate or address this problem. Now it should be obvious to everyone that if these same scientists were to discover that there was in fact no man made global warming and that there was nothing that can be done to mitigate or address climate change, their grants would go away and they would need to find another job. So, it is in their best interest to find a problem, a big problem, that only they can help solve.

The same can be said for the employees of many of the international agencies and NGOs. If there was no problem, they would have nothing to do and the UN, Greenpeace, etc would probably have to let them go.

Pro man made global warming politicians of course have staked there future on global warming being a real problem, that only the government, with them in charge, can solve.

And then there are people like Al Gore, who are actively promoting solutions to the problem (in his case a carbon cap and trade scheme) that the will personally profit from.

Now all of this does not mean that it's a lie, they are just reasons why some people might be willing to lie, or at least be selective with the truth.

Answer 3

Climate change is not a lie only the 'man made' part is untrue.
It has gained a hold on the public imagination through an informal alliance between the extreme right who hope to suppress industrial development in the third world, the extreme left who hope to use it to disrupt the economies of the western capitalist nations and ferment a socialist revolution and the medieval environmentalists who romanticise the peasant way of life before any powered machinery.
One of the largest financial contributers to the man made global warming campaign was the multi-national corporation Enron, which owns the worlds largest manufacturer of wind turbines.

Answer 4

The IPCC had a budget of over 7 million dollars this year alone, and as long as there is substantiated evidence that emissions from the activities of humanity are influencing climate in a negative way they will likely see their budget increase over the years. The analysis phase of any project usually is the cheapest aspect of a project. If a consensus can be reached among the most powerfull nations on earth that humanity is influencing the climate, the IPCC's role will move from an analysis role to an enforcement of policy role. Along with this comes a much larger budget, but more importantly, power. Most politicians are not in it for the money, they already have plenty of that, they are in it for the power. Obviously, if the IPCC would have concluded that humanity has had no real lasting and or measurable influence on the climate their budget and power would likely have a finite period of existence or reduced budget.

Answer 5

You question implies that the programme set out to show that global warming is a lie or those who advocate or support it are liars. I don't think it would have done that. People can be misguided or wrong without setting out to lie.
But there are many groups who might profit from pushing the global warming line. Scientists who want funding for research into the baneful effects of global warming may find their proposals more attractive to potential sponsors if global warming were happening or is due to human agency. NGOs that are fighting global warming might stand to lose funding if global warming was a myth or not caused by humans. Manufacturers of gadgets to cut down emission or to save energy stand to benefit from sales if global warming was seen as a threat. And so on.
But even if we agreed that global warming was happening, we may not agree that it is down to man-made CO2. It could be a natural cycle and we can't do anything about it.

Answer 6

The Great Global Warming Swindle isn't really a documentary. It's more like a propaganda film because it's full of mistruths, misrepresentations, and lies. Channel 4 had to issue a public apology for airing it in the UK.

Global warming is not a lie. As you said, people claim it's a lie because of money, but they don't have a good explanation for who benefits. The first answerer said taxation - well governments don't just tax for the fun of it. Americans in particular hate taxes, and increasing taxes is usually a sure way for a politician to lose votes.

Mr. Jello's answer was just a flat-out lie.

The answer is that global warming is not a lie. It's a scientific issue, and scientists don't lie. It's their job to be unbiased, and other scientists always check their work.

Answer 7

It is not a lie, but it may be a theory that is incorrect.
The problem occurs in doing something about it. The richer countries of the world can reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, but the poor countries are increasing their production of these gasses thus negating whatever we can accomplish. Our only choice is to think the theory is wrong, and believe that life will get better and hope that our natural lives will be over before the **** hits the fan ecologically.

Answer 8

the key is to understand that global warming is caused by "greenhouse gas emissions" and a lot of that is CO2 gases emitted by fossil fuel power plants. To stop CO2 emissions would mean that either those fossil fuel power plants shut down or they convert to nuclear. Shutting down means going out of business. Going nuclear would mean telling the oil and coal industries that they won't be buying coal and oil anymore. SO the oil and coal industries would be inclined to say global warming is a lie ( to protect their self interest ). Also the car and truck industries would be in the same position because cars and truck emissions also make up greenhouse gases. Car and truck industries should make all cars and trucks hybrid design to help out if they had any sense of responsibility (like set the example for their kids).

Answer 9

If you watch Michael Moore's two big film about Columbine and 9/11 you'll see that fear is sometimes used quite crudely in the media over in the US. He links it to consumption and then on to big business...which we all know will find any way to extend their profits. It's what business is about. The same is true in the UK when we see these images of climatic meltdown on the TV and in the papers. Wherever there's an angle...wherever there's some money to be made. They'll be there!
That's not to say that it isn't getting hotter. Just that we can't really do too much about it...whatever the IPPC claim!

ohh...forgot to say that the angle in this case is likely to be the nuclear power contingent. Lots of money tied up in that...quite precariously too.

Answer 10

I could be wrong but I think that many people are confused about what global warming actually is and to me the name suggests that it only deals with hotter temperatures which is not the case.

To me global warming means "Global destabilization" since the weather around many parts of the world is not only getting warmer, it is just becoming more erratic with fiercer storms, colder and hotter weather, more floods, etc, so as to why they call it global warming I am not quite sure, but I really think that it should be called global destabilization.

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