Please provide evidence for why global warming is not really happening.?

Question

I have heard all the pro arguments, I was wondering about the opposing viewpoint.

Answer 1

Because Rush Limbaugh says so. Stop your thinking and just ditto.

Answer 2

The main evidence that skeptics provide for global warming not really happening is the scientific evidence of the earth's and the sun's natural cycles of heating and cooling. Of course, this doesn't disprove global warming in general, it just shows that maybe global warming is not produced or brought about by human activity and there is nothing that humans can do about it.

There are also those that say,"Well, winter's coming and it's freezing where I am, so, so much for global warming." This only reveals a lack of understanding that these people have about global warming's "global" nature and that it doesn't take a huge temperature change to effect huge results. In other words, the average temperature of the planet may only rise a couple of degrees, however, it is the extremes of this average that upset earth's fragile atmospheric balance and cause glaciers and ice caps that are thousands of years old to melt and permanently disappear.

The interesting thing is the possibility of skeptics remaining skeptical despite what happens in the future. If everything remains like it is today, skeptics will say,"Well, we told you so." Likewise, if the weather in our atmosphere spirals out of the norm and somehow destroys civilization as we know it, if there are any survivors, any surviving skeptics will say,"It wasn't humanity that caused this, this is part of the natural cycles of the earth."

If you couple the natural global warming that apparently is happening with the changes to the earth's surface and the pollution that humanity has wrought, then you inescapably arrive at "all the pro arguments" you have heard for global warming, and it makes the "opposing viewpoint" look entirely weak.

Answer 3

Global Warming is real.

The case against global warming being a consequence of human activities is:

1. Other planets are warming. The ice caps on mars are receding in a similar way to our own suggesting that the sun is the cause.

2. Global warming doesn't correlate very well with CO2 usage. The world started warming rapidly around 1910, when CO2 emmissions were relatively low, around the middle of the century the world started cooling, then continued warming at the same rate as 1910. Increasing the rate of CO2 emmissions doesn't seem to increase global warming.

3. Current data conflicts with positive feedback models. The worst case models rely on positive feedback, that CO2 emmissions will warm the earth causing CO2 to come out of the oceans. What we are seeing on earth is only around 2/3 of the CO2 we emit goes into the atmosphere. The rest actually gets absorbed by the oceans or the biosphere.

Answer 4

WELL THERE'S MONEY TO BE MADE. If everyone got serious about global warming then who is going to buy huge suv's and more oil refineries, build coal fired power plants, huge coal strip mines to decimate the country side,so everyone can leave all there lights on and cool themselves off by standing in front of an open freezer door. the vast majority of the arguments against global warming stem from it will cost me money and convenience, and besides if I do my part then someone in china is going to steal all the fun and pollute twice as much. At the last summit the main argument against the kioto accord was its economic cost on developed nations and total disaster economically on third world countries with slash and burn farming techniques causing widespread famine.

Answer 5

I have a different point of view... global warming is happening but it's not a bad thing... I also disagree with the cause of it... When we live in milder climates life is easier, whether we are animal, bird human tree, ocean, fish insect... life is simply easier... Nature is evolving without human assistance ... making life easier for all living things... The Human perception of what is going on has been twisted by the constant bombardment of religions and their god or gods..( usually to the wrong conclusion of things often to the exact opposite conclusion ex: global warming is bad) leaving nature out in the cold... nature fights back, this time it's ignoring the masses of information it receives through humans and depending on itself..... What should worry us is how much we fail to understand, we build extra ordinairy mechanical devices yet are unable to understand some of the simplest natural concepts...

Answer 6

The Earth is on a warm cycle, so naturally the earth is getting hotter. However at the same rate we are pumping billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere.

Which is warming up the earth at a greater rate. So you could say we are causing global warming however we are also on a warm cycle. We are contributing a tiny bit, not all these degrees everyone is trying to say.

Answer 7

Some people claim that it is such a tiny increase (the temperature rise is nought ppint something) that it can't make any difference.
However, what these people don't realise is that even point something of a degree is alot and contributes.

Sorry, that's not really a very good answer, but it's the only vaguely valid arguement I've ever heard regarding the "non-existance" of global warming.

Answer 8

There's no doubt the planet is getting warmer but it's been much warmer than this in the past and been much cooler. The real issue is if man is at fault this time round. Personally I think that global warming has become politicised and there's a lot of lies going around because of it. Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth was recently found to been error strewn and not supported by the scientific community but you'll still see politicians and activists using it as evidence.

Answer 9

Sorry, I cant help you on this one, some people say there is plenty of evidence in the sand....

Oh trekky, that's hilarious where did you dig up thst fossil of a scam!?

Answer 10

Global warming is an effect that has been taking place since they invented stars and planets. It's a natural occurrence. this particular planet has developed the atmosphere and green house gasses necessary to maintain a stable environment that created life as we know it.