Global Warming Help????

Question

I seem to remember images of Dr. Heidi Cullen and other "meteorologists" on my TV barking the same propoganda about how this was sure to be the worst, most destructive, deadliest hurricane season ever because global warming has permanantly altered the weathr patterns.

Don't you remember these people standing on the beach reporting as if they were just waiting for the hurricanes to make landfall?

And while we are on this note, the other night I saw a panel of "scientists" on TV discussing global warming. Two were saying that in 10 years, they expected the ocean level to rise 50 feet because of the melting ice caps!
Now that would mean that the ocean would have to be rising 1.2 inches per week. DON'T YOU THINK SOMEONE WOULD HAVE NOTICED THAT????

Anyone who lives by the beach, are you seeing this?

Answer 1

I too think this is propaganda - to people who are too stressed-out and harried by the demands and desires of modern life to examine these things too closely or to think too deeply.

One thing about getting older : you observe a lot and you think a lot more than you used to! We seriously need more deep thinking nowadays, because I think we are being fed a load of guff - aka. political correctness - by the media and those behind them.

There's not a day goes by that the news doesn't mention this. It's like a religion, but you need to consider, what are the things which they DON'T mention? Because whilst they're clogging up the airways with this, they're not reporting other things. Things they don't want you to worry about, because you might kick up. But they DO want you to worry and get fearful about this! Oh yes, the more fear the better!

In other words, this is a smoke screen, to keep us occupied, fearful and running around trying to save the planet, desperately trying to DO something about it. Meanwhile, it stops us asking other questions; it stops us using our lives more constructively, it stops us really THINKING, while they get on with other things....

After all, they keep repeating this like a mantra - surely they must be right?

Personally, I don't deny that there may be some truth in the report that weather patterns are changing, but I am equally sure that we should not be obsessed with saving the planet and we should be aware that many powers are using this information (whether true of false) politically to manipulate us. Regarding this last point, we should be asking:
if the weather is changing - WHY? and
if we are being manipulated - WHY?

Answer 2

For starters, Meteorologists study weather, not climate. If a Meteorologist starts talking about global warming or climate change, odds are he's talking out of his butt.

Global warming will likely increase the intensity of hurricanes, but not the frequency with which they form:

http://www.livescience.com/environment/ap_050731_hurricanes_stronger.html

Secondly, either those "scientists" were complete morons, or more likely you didn't correctly hear what they were saying.

Sea levels may eventually rise 20-25 feet if the Greenland Ice Sheet melts, but this won't happen until 2050 at the very earliest, and more likely closer to 2100 or later (unless we reduce greenhouse gas emissions before then). If land ice on Antarctica melts, we could see a further 80 foot sea level rise, but this is even further behind the Greenland ice melting timeline.

Answer 3

Global warming will not increase the intensity of hurricanes. This is pure "junk science" and alarmism.

Sea levels will not rise 20-25 feet if the Greenland Ice Sheet melts. In fact, Greenland has been growing colder, not warmer. Over the last half century, there has been a statistically significant cooling, particularly in southwest coastal Greenland, and all these doom and gloom predictions with dates attached to them only reinforces the view that ideological environmentalists are false prophets and scaremongers of the worst kind.

Fundamentally, believers in made global warming are alarmists. The hysteria of the man made global warming ideology is based on politics more than anything else. Man made global warming is big business today. Good news does not get them large contributions and grants for more "scientific studies" an publications on the subject, however alarmism does; catastrophic predictions are an excellent propagandistic ploy to keep getting more money.

There are lots of things being done to reduce pollution, CO2 emissions, end deforestation, and preserve wildlife. However, the mainstream media mostly alarms with the negative, because they are for the most part aligned with the political ideology of man made global warming. You see, man made global warming (anthropogenic global warming) is only part of the larger environmentalist ideology. In short, here’s what the environmental ideology encompasses:

1) Ideological environmentalism is a political ideology that embodies a sweeping agenda aimed at radically transforming how we live and work, and not exactly for the better.

2) Like all ideologies, political environmentalism consists of two parts: a diagnosis and a cure. The ideological environmentalist diagnosis of the problems facing humanity is that modern societies are destroying the Earth and thus imperiling humanity. The cure they recommend is, as I said above, a series of sweeping policies that would radically reshape how the world works. “We must make the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization”, declared Al Gore in his own manifesto, Earth in the Balance.

The political message at the core of ideological environmentalism was then and is now “Do what I say or the world will come to an end.”

The problem with ideological environmentalism, as with all other political ideologies, is that key predictions made by environmentalist ideologues about the future state of the Earth and humanity are simply not coming true. Three of the canonical books at the modern founding of ideological environmentalism made sweeping claims about the impending fate of humanity and the Earth. The three books are: Silent Spring, written by Rachel Carson in 1962; The Population Bomb, written by Paul Ehrlich in 1968, a biologist from Stanford University; and The Limits of Growth, a report to the Club of Rome, published in 1972.

Carson predicted that modern synthetic chemicals, especially pesticides, would cause epidemics of cancer and kill off massive quantities of wildlife. Her predictions did not come true.

In the Population Bomb, Ehrlich confidently predicted that “the battle to feed all humanity is over. In the 1970s the world will undergo famines- hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.” His predictions did not come true.

The Limits to Growth incorporated the dogma of imminent depletion of natural resources to concerns about growing population and rising pollution. Its predictions did not come true.

Answer 4

It's more of an illustration of how poor computer models are at predicting the future. The sheer complexity of the Earth and its climate is impossible for any computer to accurately model, so any climatologist's predictions are at best a SWAG. Things like the effect of a stream of cold, fresh water hitting a body of moving warm salt water are nearly impossible to model with any degree of accuracy. Combine that with trying to model the increasing evaporation of a warming body of water and the subsequent effect on air currents and cloud formation, and you have something beyond the scope of any current computer, and probably any computer that will be developed within the next century.

Not to say that research shouldn't be stressed to try to move into better forms of alternative energy, but do it because it's the right thing to do, not because the alarmists' view of global warming makes it some sort of urgent matter that has to be "solved" tomorrow.

Answer 5

If you desire to acquire furnish cash for local weather study, do you feel that you'll be able to get a cheque in case you say," I want the furnish, as I feel that I can turn out that the figures that the present paradigm is founded upon are fallacious" ? The first-rate environmentalist, David Bellamy, has been silenced, and refused airtime. There remains to be no validated causative hyperlink among the volume of Co2 within the surroundings, and an broaden in worldwide temperatures. The WWWF pix of the polar bears swimming had been taken within the Arctic summer time; whilst the ice cap in part melts, as they could not stand up to photo within the wintry weather. The ice was once too thick! The East-Anglian uni study figures. "Oh! The figures do not fit our expectancies. Oh good. Keep quiet. Because we all know that we're correct." When the notion, and the religion is extra essential than squarely dealing with the legit doubts of plenty of non furnish-supported scientists, technology has been superceded via devout zealots. As Oliver Cromwell colourfully stated." I pray thee, within the bowels of Christ, recollect that thou mayest be fallacious."

Answer 6

Look at the Northwest passage that is opening!Is that a clue of global warming?Mexico was hit hard this year from your hurricanes you deny,and the season is not over.I hope there are no more but it's possible.There is too much scientific evidence of global warming to dispute it.Also, if precautions were taken such as cleaning up the air (which would help with health conditions) would that be a bad thing?I

Answer 7

People are

The warming effect increases with time, so the rise is small at first, but as the seas get warmer, the proportion of ice melting increases, to the rise in sea levels is faster.

Answer 8

I lived on the eastern shore of Maryland where it is mostly tidal-and yes, Islands have disappeared and our yard started to get more wet. We have since moved and live on higher ground.
We also lived near a research lab and I would go to lunch with some of the girls-the conversation was very interesting!
Our planet has gone through a thaw since the ice age, but mankind is speeding thing up considerably

Answer 9

Please see the web page for more details on Global warming. If the sea level is raised up, several cities lying near the sea will be submerged. We may hope that this will not happen in our life time.

Answer 10

Here you go sparky... I know it isn't AM radio but there are some pretty smart folks on the NAS panel who probably have examined the issue a bit more than you.

http://dels.nas.edu/basc/Climate-LOW.pdf

Addendum: Nixon, try a little experiment; Empty a tray of ice cubes into a bowl. Fill the bowl to the rim with water. See what happens when the cubes melt. Think before you type, okay?

** FIVE thumbs down. I feel the love from the "global warming is fallacy but trickle down economics is tried and true,the earth is only 7000 years old , and we are winning in Iraq" crowd. Have you all considered faith based climatology?**