I've been in this section 30 seconds....Are there really people on the planet who think Global warming is fake

Question

Honestly?

Answer 1

Yes. Sad, isn't it?

Answer 2

Probably. But most skeptics actually believe the NUMBERS.

You know, like the FACT that the Global Mean Surface Temperature has been flat since 1998? (10 years, NO WARMING!)

Oh, sorry...this is the GW section - facts must take a back seat to computer simulations that are in all ways superior to what the thermometer actually says!

Answer 3

I call them "flat earthers"! They were the jerks that always fooled around in the back of the class. Just as frustrating as trying to debate science with a "born again"! Remember what happened to Capernicus, he was arrested by the Vatican for saying that the Earth went around the Sun! These idiots on here would want to arrest Al Gore if they could. Why so much hatred for someome who tells the truth?

Answer 4

It's not as bad as you think. Their arguments are based on words, not data. Most of them are refuted right here:

http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462

And so, there's a lot less controversy about this is the real world than there is on Yahoo answers:

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_page/412.php?lb=hmpg1&pnt=412&nid=&id=

And vastly less controversy in the scientific community than you might guess from the few skeptics talked about here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686

"The fact that the community overwhelmingly supports the consensus is evidenced by picking up any copy of Journal of Climate or similar, any scientific program at the meetings, or simply going to talk to scientists. I challenge you, if you think there is some un-reported division, show me the hundreds of abstracts that support your view - you won't be able to. You can argue whether the consensus is correct, or what it really implies, but you can't credibly argue it doesn't exist."

NASA's Gavin Schmidt

Good websites for more info:

http://profend.com/global-warming/
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/
http://www.realclimate.org
"climate science from climate scientists"

Answer 5

"When I go to a scientific meeting, there's lots of opinion out there, there's lots of discussion (about climate change). I was at the Geological Society of America meeting in Philadelphia in the fall and I would say that people with my opinion (the sun is the cause of the current warming trend) were probably in the majority,” Paleoclimatologist Tim Patterson, of Carlton University in Ottawa.

Check out this list of people who also do not believe in man made global warming or that it will be catastrophic.
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=927b9303-802a-23ad-494b-dccb00b51a12&Region_id=&Issue_id=

Answer 6

Honestly, there are people who do not believe AGW will be catastrophic. They are called scientists. If you have not heard of them before, you need to read more.

Here are some things you can read:

1. Roger Pielke's summary conclusions. Pielke is the most prolific and respected climatologist in the field. He believes man is affecting climate but mostly through land use/ land cover changes, not from CO2.
http://climatesci.colorado.edu/2007/09/02/summary-conclusions-of-climate-science/

2. The IPCC claims temps have gone up by .74C in the last century, but we do not know that. Our weather station network was initially established 150 years ago to provide advanced warning to farmers about adverse weather events. The network was not designed to provide the precision necessary to measure gridcell temps at hundredths or even tenths of a degree. Anthony Watts is leading an effort to photograph and rate the quality of stations. So far his team has photographed 1/3 of US stations and 85% of them failed to meet the minimum standards set by NOAA. They majority were poorly sited with significant warm biases. Perhaps as much as one hal of the observed warming is not real but an artifact these poorly sited stations.
http://surfacestations.org/
http://gallery.surfacestations.org/UCAR-slides/index.html

3. Because scientists knew about the problems with the surface temp record, Pielke proposed using ocean heat content as a better metric for measuring global warming. Stephen Schwartz of Brookhaven National Lab recently calculated climate sensitivity of doubled CO2 using ocean heat content rather than just surface temps. He is publishing his paper in peer-reviewed journal. His estimate of climate sensitivity is much less than before and indicates AGW will not be catastrophic.
http://www.ecd.bnl.gov/steve/pubs/HeatCapacity.pdf

Are there really people out there who do not know that global warming alarmism is losing the scientific debate?

Answer 7

Yes right here! I think is fake, Look back at history around the 70's and even then they were talking about over freezing meaning it should be colder now. About the warming part is the same, it's not new

Answer 8

Well, it depends on what you mean by "Global warming".

There are only two possibilities. The earth is cooling, or, the earth is warming. It is ALWAYS doing one or the other. Right now it appears to be warming. This is quite a long term trend. This trend was interrupted by the little ice age, but it has now continued onward and has nearly reached the warming levels that were seen in medieval times.

Answer 9

Yes, and if you need something to be afraid of try some of the other great snow jobs the media has tried to sell us in the last 20 years,
Satanic cults performing mass infant sacrifices,
Bird Flue,
Flesh eating virus going to destroy the human race,
Giant Metorite wiping out life on earth,
Im sure you can add to the list.

Answer 10

Yes, but they are the ones who don't think for them selves or do any research and rely on politically motivated and paid pr mouth pieces to do their thinking for them.

The researchers at Scripps Institute say in their FAQ on global warming that its a matter of basic physics and remedial math.

Deniers cannot account for the human additions of c02 to the atmosphere and are clueless as to the greenhouse effect.

So yes, but they didn't take high school physics and need remedial math.

Answer 11

hang around Global warming a while and you will find that half the people who come here think that ,

makes one wonder why they are in Global warming .
probably the same reason homo phobics are in the gay section.