Do those who think global warming is a hoax also support pollution or energy dependence on other countries?

Question

I hear a lot of highly emotional claims that global warming is not real and/or a phony issue promoted by liberals and liars for some unclear, but apparently profit motivated reason. Given that the claimed causes of global warming are the same as those that cause pollution and our dependence on Middle East oil, do the ranters and ravers also believe we should ignore these other byproducts of carbon emissions? Are they missing the trees for the forest? Something is missing in the logic behind their emotions, isn't it?

Answer 1

They are heavily invested in fossil fuels, the easiest road to riches. All this anti-pollution talk is making oil investors nervous. They pull the strings of the Republican Party and all their small brained faithful fall in line, just like Nazis. Conservatives can't think for themselves.

Answer 2

Only an idiot believes that human activity is responsible for global warming. The fact that CO2 and temperatures are both going up at the same time is not proof that one is causing the other. The earth's temperature has gone up and down throughout its history. Hell, in the 70's, scientists were convinced that the world was entering a new ice age, so which is it? The fact is, these people have no idea, but that won't stop them from inventing one.

Time and time again, people who support this idea also support stupid ideas like Live Earth, the "Green Industry" and political candidates and scientific institutions that are pushing this shallow agenda. Is it possible that all these people are correct? Probably not. I think it is far more likely that "green industry" is being used a a fake issue so politicians can get elected, so failed politicians (Al Gore) can create their own little empires and feel important by putting on concerts that events that probably cause a lot more pollution than would have been otherwise, and so scientific institutions can continue to get funding to do more "research" which probably includes financing greenhouse-gas-spewing trips from one cushy environmentalist conference to another.

The part that probably pisses me off the most is how people are now blaming everything on global warming. Hurricane Katrina? Global warming. Huge blizzard on the east coast? Global Warming. Drought in the southwest? Global Warming. Fires in So California? Global warming. Evidence was recently found that the SoCal fires were deliberately started, and the brainwashed sheep still won't let up. Global warming has become the new "bogeyman" issue that is going to decide yet another election, just like "gay marriage" was last time.

The fact is, the temperature of the globe is increasing and there is a very good chance that there is nothing that humans can do about it - even if CO2 is responsible for it, the Kyoto treaty and other such rot won't pull it out of the air fast enough. I will only take a politician or scientist seriously when they stop talking about how to stop global warming and start talking about how to survive an inevitable climate change by changing our own way of life.

Answer 3

Global warming is not a hoax. The hoax is that we are the cause for it. I watched a special on the science discovery channel that stated, The suns solar waves can help change the patterns in the clouds. The more clouds there are the more the earth is going to warm. I know we make clouds everyday with are nuclear power plants. That is the wrong misconception, the steam that come from a power plant is different then the clouds in the sky. The sun has cooled and heated the earth for billions of your. We go throw these trends all the time. And The sun always finds a way to fix the earth. I believe if we are doing damage to the earth, it is not enough to kill human existence.

As for your dependency on Middle East oil. I believe we should have other options. Oh by the way, the earth has enough trees to create enough oxygen forever. Even after that we still get oxygen as a byproduct of ocean evaporation.

Answer 4

I'm against pollution or wantonly dumping toxic materials on the ground, in the water or spewing it into the air. Let's face it, we have gotten so much better technologically that we can have clean energy from coal, natural gas and, good old demon oil as we have refined the drilling/refining processes. All the enviro's thought wind was they way to go, now, the price per kilowatt hour is higher than coal or nuclear power. oh and by the way, those huge windmills are zapping the bird and bats. Can't have that now can we? I'd take a nuclear powerplant in my backyard rather than some unsightly windmill. The safety record for reactors is quite impressive. Just look at the U.S. Navy's record. Three Mile island was not a disaster because of the safety precautions the U.S. demands. The containment procedures, equipment and structure worked as advertised. Chernobyl was the result of poor technology/safety standards.
Unfortunately, people have chosen to remain ignorant of the junk science behind "global warming." In the 70's all the media nuts were saying we are in a cooling trend and the next Ice age is coming, now it's warming despite evidence to the contrary.
If people are putting their faith in someone like the Goreacle, they are in need of serious mental health help, Do the research and decide for yourself.
Things like clouds, the sun, weather, currents all have a part in "global warming/cooling," forces we humans can hardly control.

Answer 5

We have the ability to be damn near energy independent right now. If the govt was hell bent on getting solar panels tied to the grid for every american.........they could do it through larger tax deductions, grants, and such.

We need a manhattan project style complete overhaul on our current energy policy, we need to fund more research and get people involved in energy independence for america. I am Conservative, but I think that if we were not so dependent of the rest of the world to quench our energy thirst, we would have a better national security situation. There is technology already out there, you can build a concrete house that looks just like a regular house with only a 5% premium and the place will be there for 500 years, and it will have 5 times the insulation of a stick frame home. We don't have to compromise quality of life to be energy independent, and we should strive to create a society where energy is cheap, readily available, and not easy to waste.

Answer 6

What an incredibly dimwitted question.
That the climate is shifting is unavoidable. It does that, and has apparently done it any number of times since the earth formed, all on its own and quite without human interference. The question is what if any part in the change human action is having, and if altering our action will have any effect on reversing what appears to be a perfectly normal alteration in weather.
What scares me is that scientists (and lay people) who disagree with the Al Gore School of Climatology are publicly bashed and denied access to media and audiences. Global Warming has become the new religion, and all heretics beware!
Saying that people who doubt the veracity of global warming are automatically in favor of pollution and dependence on foreign oil is a purely ridiculous and moronic attempt to scare people into toeing the line. Recall the nursery tale of the Emperor's New Clothes? The charlatans that sold the Emperor "invisible" clothing also told everyone that only a fool wouldn't be able to see them. It took the innocence of a child to declare the Emperor naked.

Answer 7

Uh, no. I don't support it because people can't make up their minds if it's Global Warming or Climate change, and many can't seem to the concept in their heads that the earth has warmed and cooled drastically in the past. Little Ice Age ring a bell? Or how about in the 70s where all the scientists said we were heading for a new ice age?

Answer 8

It isn't entirely a hoax. A study came out last year indicating that sea temperatures during the paleontonic fluxuated 6 degrees = which is huge. The Gisp (greenland ice sheet project) Also indicated that there has been a greater fluxuation than previously believed.

The carbon preservation thing is silly.

Polution has immediate effects - both in wild life and humans.

Answer 9

yeah...it's a hoax....

the only grants given? are those which support the theory...hell! no one is giving money to prove it isn't happening...and if you say it isn't? or that it isn't man causing it? you are pariah! *lol*

the fact is...the earth warms and cools...it cycles...it always has...otherwise we would still be in an ice age...maybe the north pole is melting, however...how come no one talks about the south pole building more ice?

this particular "science" has been so politicized nothing can be believed anymore...there is no "truth"...only the rantings of the fanatical... righteous followers of the only "true" religion they will accept....

me? i am all for drilling in Alaska...building new oil refineries...and going with nuclear power as well...

unfortunately... the same idiots who destroyed nuclear power in this country are the same ones now screaming "global warming! global warming!" ... and wanting to shut down hydro power, and coal fire plants...

reminds me soooooooo much of chicken little......

Answer 10

No we are just tired of scientists trying to get funding by over exaggerating facts. This generation it's global warming last generation it was the coming ice age. Plus I am always suspicious when one side says that the debate is over instead of allowing for discussion.