Why is everything bad on the planet blamed on Global Warming?

Question

This is my most major object to the theory. Everything -- floods, extinction, fires, war, diseases; all attributable to global warming. Or so the proponents say. You would think this never happened prior to global warming. It did happen prior to global warming! Ice Ages, floods, wars and extinction are not new! They happened before, for varying reasons, but now scientists just blame all the worlds problems on it. I'm sure the conservatives see right through this, but environmentalists don't. Why can't they look at history and the various causes of things instead of blaming one thing as the root cause of all evil?

Jenny - Thank you for back-tracking on the current message and being honest, but at the same time anytime a natural disaster is mentioned they don't analyze other historical causes and compare them with global warming. They over-hype it.

Good answers from many people. Gump and Jewel: you need to exercise that grey matter a little more.

Answer 1

I guess a lot of people are too young to know what the climate was like before global warming was popular. It's also partly the fault of the media that wants to hype things as much as possible to stop people changing the channel so they'll present natural events as if they were the worst floor hurricane, drought etc that ever happened in the history of creation.

If you talk to old people, you can sometimes provide you with a different perspective, like the recent drought in Australia an old timer was telling me, this drought is nearly as bad as the one we had in the 60's.

The media cherry pick data too (like quoting some odd statistic that they managed to find about how this is the most number of consecutive days above a certain temperature in a certain month on record) to make it sound like new weather patterns are happening. Weather really hasn't changed by very much over the last hundred years.

Answer 2

This is done because it is 'exciting' and it sells newspaper, magazine, and TV advertisement.
It is also a convenient vehicle to usher in even more confiscatory taxes and to increase the power of the already socialist U.N. via various treaties, most notably the Kyoto disaster.

Here is truth about global warming:

Global warming is one-half of the climatic cycle of warming and cooling.
The earth's mean temperature cycles around the freezing point of water.
This is a completely natural phenomenon which has been going on since there has been water on this planet. It is driven by the sun.
Our planet is currently emerging from a 'mini ice age', so is
becoming warmer and may return to the point at which Greenland is again usable as farmland (as it has been in recorded history).
As the polar ice caps decrease, the amount of fresh water mixing with oceanic water will slow and perhaps stop the thermohaline cycle (the oceanic heat 'conveyor' which, among other things, keeps the U.S. east coast warm).
When this cycle slows/stops, the planet will cool again and begin to enter another ice age.

It's been happening for millions of years.

The worrisome and brutal predictions of drastic climate effects are based on computer models, NOT CLIMATE HISTORY.
As you probably know, computer models are not the most reliable of sources, especially when used to 'predict' chaotic systems such as weather.

Global warming/cooling, AKA 'climate change':
Humans did not cause it.
Humans cannot stop it.

Answer 3

I like Joe U's commnent when he says: "Humans did not cause it.Humans cannot stop it." As in the all times, we have someone or something to blame it on. Humans invented the DEVIL as a supernatural being that MAKE you do thing, so we can say "HE MADE ME DO IT" and the Global Warming is the DEVIL'S EARTH where we can blame anything that happen in nature. If you notice when they talk about the global warming they say that the results will be visible in 10,000 more years!!!!!! not even my 5th generation will see that! The evil within us is real and if we don't control it is bad, this earth has a it's own way of do things (divine plan? who knows) but one thing is real: it has to happen..global warming? it sales...if don't believe me read: State of Fear by Michael Crichton

Answer 4

I'm not sure. I don't think enough global warming has happened SO FAR to have much of an effect; the danger is primarily in the future. I think people blaming so many things on global warming is just because they find it's an easy, all-purpose scapegoat. If you take a look around, it's interesting how people are so concerned about global warming, but don't pay nearly as much attention to the OTHER ways in which humans mess with the Earth's natural environment. I guess people just find that reality is more complicated than they'd like, so they simplify it for themselves.

Answer 5

If you listen closely enough then those attributions should be qualified.

Take war for example. The universal reson for war is not religion, that's just the excuse, but resources. Yes overpopulation holds a big responsibility, but Global Warming is causing resources shortages, as in Darfur, and will do in the future, as in the water wars.

Nobody's saying you shouldn't be critical of the media, but there's usually a kernel of truth in there, and broadcasters have to play to the lowest common denominator, and if you're not, then you have to bear this in mind.

Your objection seems to be with the media, not the scientific concensus.

Answer 6

I guess for those of you that believe global warming is a new concept then I guess the dinosaurs didn't die due to a global event and are living somewhere on a reservation in Wyoming with assumed identities.

Answer 7

Because global climate change causes increased numbers of floods, droughts, fires, some diseases, extinctions, and potentially wars over decreased natural resources in the future.

An individual event cannot be directly attributed to global warming, but on average it will cause more of these events.

Answer 8

the root cause if this evil (your words) is human nature! It is our selfishness that is creating all the problems, well most go back in history and it should become clear. We have become a plague on this earth. We need to stop, but as you can see most people blame nature! or global warming! (which we caused) NO one whats to carry the blame! like we should!

we need to learn from our history and change our ways!

Answer 9

THese wannabee Communists use this to further brainwash the masses who have been already been stripped of their critical thinking ability by the teachers unions.

I recommend the book The Naked Communist by W. Cleon Skousen, it will make you look at the media, the leftists in the Government, and alot of things differently.

Answer 10

earlier the science was not so advanced to monitor or check all the disasters taking placesplus the world is now increasing at an alarming rate,what with the overgrown population and consumption of natural resources at a faster speed than ever before.economic development at the cost of depleting natural resourses is a major cause of climatic changes taking places all over the world.what occured in centuries is now happening in years.so we should be alert now.