What has more evidence the existence of "WMDS in Iraq" or "Global Warming"?

Answer 1

There seemed to be evidence for WMDs in Iraq, but it was falsified evidence.

The evidence for global warming is very real:

Basically we know it's warming, and we've measured how much:

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

Scientists have a good idea how the Sun and the Earth's natural cycles and volcanoes and all those natural effects change the global climate, so they've gone back and checked to see if they could be responsible for the current global warming. What they found is:

Over the past 30 years, all solar effects on the global climate have been in the direction of (slight) cooling, not warming. This is during a very rapid period of global warming.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6290228.stm
http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/media/proceedings_a/rspa20071880.pdf

So the Sun certainly isn't a large factor in the current warming. They've also looked at natural cycles, and found that we should be in the middle of a cooling period right now.

"An often-cited 1980 study by Imbrie and Imbrie determined that 'Ignoring anthropogenic and other possible sources of variation acting at frequencies higher than one cycle per 19,000 years, this model predicts that the long-term cooling trend which began some 6,000 years ago will continue for the next 23,000 years.'"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovich_cycle

So it's definitely not the Earth's natural cycles. They looked at volcanoes, and found that

a) volcanoes cause more global cooling than warming, because the particles they emit block sunlight

b) humans emit over 100 times more CO2 than volcanoes annually

http://www.gaspig.com/volcano.htm

So it's certainly not due to volcanoes. Then they looked at human greenhouse gas emissions. We know how much atmospheric CO2 concentrations have increased over the past 50 years:

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

And we know from isotope ratios that this increase is due entirely to human emissions from burning fossil fuels. We know how much of a greenhouse effect these gases like carbon dioxide have, and the increase we've seen is enough to have caused almost all of the warming we've seen over the past 30 years (about 80-90%). You can see a model of the various factors over the past century here:

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

This is enough evidence to convince almost all climate scientists that humans are the primary cause of the current global warming.

Answer 2

The evidence is comparable.

There is general agreement the globe has warmed between 1970 and 2000. And that temperatures have been fairly constant for the last 7 years.

And everyone knows Hussein had WMDs because he used them on the Iranians and the Kurds.

Politics on the other hand considers evidence only to the extent that it promotes the political agenda.

Global warming is about increasing Government control over the energy industry.

WMDs in Iraq is about Democrats increasing their control of the Government.

The truth is out there. But that's not really the point.

Answer 3

nicely the worldwide warming element has been around plenty longer then Iraq. the place there have been WMD's they have evidence from Iraqi generals saying they gutted thousands of airplane and flew them out to Lebanon and Syria.

Answer 4

Well, considering that George Bush falsely promoted the existence of WMDs in Iraq and downplays global warming, I would have to say global warming has more evidence.

Answer 5

Global Wariming and proof of WMD's are both a bi-product of very biased opinions. Neither have any proof whatso ever that either have existed. With Global Warming, Al Gore asked Scientist to make up a research paper sso that Gore can get some attention, from the public. and the same for Bush.

Answer 6

There is no evidence of WMDs in Iraq and there are only presumptions of global warming. Politics is a dirty game and the participants tend to fool people.

Answer 7

Just bcoz we don't feel the effects of Global Warming in US means it is a myth.

Global Warming has already caused devastation in many parts of the world for many years !

Answer 8

Everyone agrees that there is global warming. The debate is over whether or not it is caused by man, if it threatens our lives, and if anything to can be done about it.

Answer 9

“In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including Al Qaeda members… It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons.” -Hillary Clinton Addressing the U.S. Senate October 10, 2001

There is a very easy way to prevent anyone from being put into harm’s way, that is for Saddam Hussein to disarm. And I have absolutely no belief that he will. I have to say that this is something I’ve followed for more than a decade. If he were serious about disarming, he would have been much more forthcoming. . . . I ended up voting for the resolution after carefully reviewing the information, intelligence that I had available, talking with people whose opinions I trusted, trying to discount the political or other factors that I didn’t believe should be in any way part of this decision. -Hillary addresses Code Pink, March 7, 2003.

http://www.hillaryproject.com/index.php?/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_Iraq_Quotes/



A UK court ruling defines An Inconvenient Truth:

* The film claims that melting snows on Mount Kilimanjaro evidence global warming. The Government's expert was forced to concede that this is not correct.

* The film suggests that evidence from ice cores proves that rising CO2 causes temperature increases over 650,000 years. The Court found that the film was misleading: over that period the rises in CO2 lagged behind the temperature rises by 800-2000 years.

* The film uses emotive images of Hurricane Katrina and suggests that this has been caused by global warming. The Government's expert had to accept that it was "not possible" to attribute one-off events to global warming.

* The film shows the drying up of Lake Chad and claims that this was caused by global warming. The Government's expert had to accept that this was not the case.

* The film claims that a study showed that polar bears had drowned due to disappearing arctic ice. It turned out that Mr Gore had misread the study: in fact four polar bears drowned and this was because of a particularly violent storm.

* The film threatens that global warming could stop the Gulf Stream throwing Europe into an ice age: the Claimant's evidence was that this was a scientific impossibility.

* The film blames global warming for species losses including coral reef bleaching. The Government could not find any evidence to support this claim.

* The film suggests that the Greenland ice covering could melt causing sea levels to rise dangerously. The evidence is that Greenland will not melt for millennia.

* The film suggests that the Antarctic ice covering is melting, the evidence was that it is in fact increasing.

* The film suggests that sea levels could rise by 7m causing the displacement of millions of people. In fact the evidence is that sea levels are expected to rise by about 40cm over the next hundred years and that there is no such threat of massive migration.

* The film claims that rising sea levels has caused the evacuation of certain Pacific islands to New Zealand. The Government are unable to substantiate this and the Court observed that this appears to be a false claim.

"In order for the film to be shown (in an educational setting), the Government must first amend their Guidance Notes to Teachers to make clear that

1.) The Film is a political work and promotes only one side of the argument.

2.) If teachers present the Film without making this plain they may be in breach of section 406 of the Education Act 1996 and guilty of political indoctrination.

3.) (The) Eleven inaccuracies have to be specifically drawn to the attention of school children."

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/10/09/court-identifies-eleven-inaccuracies-al-gore-s-inconvenient-truth

Hope that helps.....

EDIT: Thumbs down?! I'm sorry, I thought you wanted the facts.

Answer 10

Global warming. At least the scientific community espouses that global warming is man-caused. If you can't listen to the scientists, who will you trust for science? FOX?