what politics are hiding the reality of global warming?

Question

the right just denies it all together. while the left pracitces man-made global warming like a sunday at church.

ignorance by the right is just stupid.

religion by the left is akin to worshiping an invisible god in the sky. with the promise that man made the mess, man can fix the mess.

any way, back to reality. why is or rather WHAT is driving the reluctance to disclose to the public the earth's eccentricity and the orbit?

is mass hysteria the biggest dilemma? the fact that in-fact global warming is NOT man made and there is simply NOTHING we can do.

for some reason this man made promise is proliferating rather than the unbearable truth. the Milankovitch cycles are most likely getting the best of earth as we end the recent ice age.

too bad, and yes it is fightening. i can understand why "scientist" are ordered NOT to receal and discuss the truth of the rising temps as earth changes its orbit.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/Giants/Milankovitch/milankovitch_2.html

thanks. and the problem is the man-made ponficating.

man made suggest a sollution. my fear, unfortunately is ther is no sollution. and we are S.O.L.

i guess mass hysteria is what no one wants. so no one wants to face the scary truth ???

Answer 1

The left doesn't worship global warming -- any more than they worship any other scientific finding -- they just think it's an important scientific finding and believe the thousands of scientists from around the world who say something needs to be done.

The right went from denying it entirely -- to arguing it is purely natural and thus can be ignored -- mainly because they don't want to spend the money converting away from a polluting oil-based economy -- they value money more than clear air or long-term survival.

The left value long-term survival of the species over money.

Answer 2

Global warming is a scientific issue, not a political one. You've got your scientific facts wrong. Here is the evidence for anthropogenic global warming (including proof that it's not part of Milankovitch Cycles).

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 (Milankovitch) 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 3

The only people that believe that global warming is a religion of the left are the right wing oil company apologists. I don't think even they actually believe it. That's just another neocon lie to rationalize their denial. Actually doing something to cut down my carbon emissions is NOT religion. It is acting on sound science.

Answer 4

No one on the right denies global warming, everyone agrees that the planet is warming. Most of the debate is about:

1. If the warming is caused by man or not
2. If it's a crisis or not
3. If there's anything we can do about it or not

Answer 5

I think the bottom line is both sides need more education...

I mean really... I do a lot of research and sometimes I even feel lost on the issue with all the constant controversial rhetoric spinning around.

Answer 6

to: coragryp...you remind me of someone....oh,ya.lenin....you wasted 2 paragraphs with a bunch of drivell and another 11 words to utter the biggest lie of them all......i do'nt suppose you would consider the possibility that all of these forest fires could cause pollution of the air or add to globle warming....how about volcanic eruptions,or fisures opening on ocean floor. these release molton lava,raising the ocean temperature and releasing methane gases that rise to the surface and dispersed into the atmosphere. none of these events have no bearing on the condition of this planet called earth? i've only just started. this earth is not the only planet in this galaxy. it does interact with outside forces,being gravity,solar flarups,solar winds.megnetic fields,being bombarded by small and larger sized meteorites. do we really understand the effects all this may have on this planet? i doubt it.

Answer 7

The right doesn't deny that's it's happening. What I deny is the fact that the left is convinced that's it's man made.