Global warming a hoax????

Question

I did my research and found out that in the 70's there was a big "global cooling" scare fabricated by the same people who are pushing the "global warming" ticket. There are lots of very well known scientists who say that they cannot say now whether global warming is actually happening or not. If you do believe that the earth is over 4.5 BILLION years old then you will also know that the earth has cycled like this many times over, and it is impossible for us as humans who just in the last one hundred years have been accurately studying the climate, to actually forecast this kind of conclusion. If this were a trial and I was on the jury I would see some "reasonable doubt" here ladies and gentleman. Your thoughts please

Answer 1

No it's not a hoax. Here how "global warming" works.

First you get scientist to change their position on "global warming". You pay them quite well to do so, somewhere in the range of $720,000.00.

Then you pay them to endorse political candidates. This cost around $250,000.00. For this you get a scientist to make the claim that only this candidate has the ability to fix "global warming".

These scientist then pressure other scientist to agree with them or they will lose their job, or funding, or subject to personal attacks in professional journals. Then you claim you have a "consensus" instead of having to prove your theory.

While paying off selected scientists sounds expensive, it's worth it because your political party can use this "science" that they bought and paid for to justify increasing your taxes and telling you what size home you can own.

Answer 2

Your information is all wrong.

1) There was no fabricated "big global cooling scare".

For starters, there was a small global cooling between 1940 and 1970. This happened due to increased volcanic and human aerosol emissions blocking sunlight, causing global dimming and global cooling. Climate models explain this quite well, as you can see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png

Some people are trying to rewrite history to say that climate scientists were panicking about an impending ice age in the '70s due to this cooling. I can only assume that's what you're referring to. In reality climate science was very young in the '70s, and scientists knew better than to try and make long-term predictions based on the short-term cooling. The media blew the whole thing out of proportion, but scientists didn't. You can read further details here:

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/11/23/18534/222
http://www.wmconnolley.org.uk/sci/iceage/

2) There are zero scientists who will say that global warming is not happening. It's a directly observed phenomenon:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2005/ann/global-blended-temp-pg.gif

There are a few scientists who will say that humans aren't the primary cause of the current warming (very few), but none who say it's not happening.

3) Nobody disputes that the Earth's climate has changed in the past. That doesn't change the fact that humans are causing it to change very rapidly right now.

4) It is not impossible for humans to forecast climate change. It's actually very simple - if we increase the greenhouse effect (which we're doing), then the planet will warm. That's basic science.

Please spend more time researching the issue.

Answer 3

You actually didn't do your research if you think there was a global cooling scare in the 70's. Ask a few people who lived then, see if any of them remember anything about it. Odds are, they won't. (I know I haven't managed to find one.) The whole "scare" you mention was nothing more than an exaggeration by the media. There was a slight cooling trend from the 1940's through the early 70's caused by an increase in sulfates from industry. Our understanding of the climate was rather poor at the time, and scientists were just beginning to understand the complex processes behind ice ages. A very few scientists speculated that, if the cooling were to continue at its current rate, it might eventually lead to an ice age. There were no peer reviewed articles saying anything of the sort. The media naturally blew it out of proportion, and decided that scientists had predicted an "imminent ice age," when they hadn't done any such thing.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=94

And, of course, the amount of time we've been studying climate change doesn't mean anything. Life on Earth has been evolving for billions of years, we've only been studying its evolution for a little over a century. I certainly don't see this as a reason to doubt evolution.

Lastly, the fact that Earth's climate has changed many times in the past tells us absolutely nothing about whether we're causing it to change now.

Answer 4

There was no big global cooling scare in the 1970's. Here's the proof:
http://www.wmconnolley.org.uk/sci/iceage/

There are NOT "lots of very well known scientists who say that they cannot say whether global warming is happening or not." In fact, I can't think of a single one. Can you name a dozen who have expressed that view in the last 10 years? Because I can name, oh, about a thousand or more who accept the consensus view that global warming is happening, and we are the cause of it.
Here's a list of the first six hundred or so:
http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/Report/AR4WG1_Print_Annexes.pdf

The earth's climate does cycle naturally. But that cycling is dependent upon a balance of greenhouse gases in the air which we humans have upset. Look at this graph to see how badly out of whack it has become:
http://www.columbusnavigation.com/co2.html

Answer 5

Global warming in itself is not a hoax. One need only look around to see that. Whether humans are exacerbating global warming (and thus, whether we should enforce stricter controls on pollution) is the subject of "reasonable doubt."

When you look for evidence, you definitely find "spin" from both sides of the aisle. Gore was definitely right about one thing: the choice is a moral one. We don't let babies crawl around on the highway because we have "reasonable doubt" that any traffic will come.

So the question in my mind is, what motives do people have for trying to influence you one way or another? It's pretty clear that if you're afraid of global warming, you'll stop using so much fuel, and buying so much junk from Wal Mart, and let's face it, that'd be bad for the economy. (are my opinions showing through?)

It's much less clear to me what motive a politician would have for "pushing the global warming ticket." Gore definitely used some alarmist tactics in his presentation, but it seems that the human race has just cause for alarm. So who's lining his purse?

So while you're doing your research, keep in mind that Big Oil is spending billions of dollars to tailor your findings. It's true that the earth has probably been through this cycle before - but we humans have no idea of the suffering this cycle will bring us. For the global economics propaganda machine to employ such a nihilist explanation as to say that it's just a natural process, I find laughable.

Answer 6

Im not going to agrue with you that the world has changed before and will change again, but we are dramatically playing a big contribution to the change of the world today and buddy if you havent noticed the world changes with time over long periods of time but now look at how its changed over the last 20 years and those researches that you studied first go and check up whos funding them if its a giant oil company than Cmon man u not gona fall for that propogander so easily are you

Answer 7

Global warming is most definitely not a hoax. there is enough scientific evidence to suggest that is a fact. And the rapid climate change over the past ten years have been proof of it. Have you realized how many glaciers have melted...the Arctic and Antarctic regions ar shrinking?
Well, there is a lot more proof then that....animals dying of heat...and more.So run a search on the web and you will know.

Answer 8

Dumb question.