If the anti-global warming folks are wrong, then our kids and our kids kids are in trouble. Is it worth that risk? Why not do something "just in case"?
2007-11-17 03:17:52 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Global Warming
Some people are honestly mistaken. I respect the courage of their convictions, but are baffled why seemingly intelligent people they think a few "skeptics" are right and the vast majority of scientists are wrong. They don't make similar decisions about their medical care.
Others are driven by obsessive radical politics. If liberals, environmentalists, or worst, Al Gore say something it MUST be wrong, no matter how many scientists are saying it.
The good news is that Yahoo answers is not representative of the real world. See, for example, wiserbud.
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
2007-11-17 03:46:34 · answer #1 · answered by Bob 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The problem lays with the controlling folks. Big money folks. By all of us being alarmed by Global Warming it hurts the big guy's profits. Of course, they don't want the issues brought out. Money talks, but our vote is starting to count.
We do need to start doing something about it. If each and every person would add something to their life style that would save on energy, keep the landfills cleaner, and donate one hour of their time per week to recycle just one pound of something, we can make a difference.
We, note, I say WE as a whole can better the world we live in.
Global Warming or not, if we continue to help clean our environment, and atmosphere, we will have a much safer and healthier world to live in.
2007-11-17 05:58:31 · answer #2 · answered by smittybo20 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The United Nations' Nobel Prize-winning panel on climate change approved the final installment of its landmark report on global warming on Friday, concluding that even the best efforts at reducing CO2 levels will not be enough and that the world must also focus on adapting to "abrupt and irreversible" climate changes.
Man can’t change what man didn’t cause
2007-11-17 04:17:59 · answer #3 · answered by mission_viejo_california 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Its not that there is big money in ignoring it, there is, its the fact that it's very inconvenient. It's easier to throw your garbage out the car window than put it in a proper container. and recycling is even more work. stand on a corner and watch every ones waist-lines and you'll see how motivated people are to do any extra effort. The other day I saw a neighbor get in her car drive 4 houses to another neighbor to give them a misdelivered letter then drive back to her house to plop down in front of the TV.
I ride my bicycle 4 miles to work on good days and lost 15 lbs. I don't do anything else any different and I probably drink more beer now and still lost weight plus I saved a couple bucks at the pumps
2007-11-17 03:44:09 · answer #4 · answered by j2 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You are working from a faulty premise.
Just because you don't accept the belief that man is causing global warming does not mean that you are pro-pollution.
It is possible to be for a clean environment and not believe the doom and gloom Algore preaches.
For many people objective science is still their standard.
2007-11-17 04:51:09 · answer #5 · answered by Dr Jello 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
People like making money, and the best way to make money is to mass-produce, and this harms the environment with pollution and waste. These companies are not willing to give up their billion dollar pollution factory or at least make changes (they may cost a bit, but they'll greatly help!) because they don't want to waste money.
Greedy people are killing us.
2007-11-17 04:18:44 · answer #6 · answered by beyonddrapery 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Change is always a radical and difficult process.
Especially when so much money has been invested - and the powerful rich are making windfall profits - in our status quo oil driven economy and infrastructure.
2007-11-17 04:11:32 · answer #7 · answered by Nichole S 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
why do the pro-global warming people fail to see or believe that there is no Proof of global warming other than that what is a normal earth cycle
2007-11-17 03:27:08 · answer #8 · answered by Jan Luv 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
There is no irrefutable "proof" either way, but if if GW sceptics are wrong, we won't be able to just say "told you so" because we'll be royally screwed. I don't want to take that chance, so wrap your lips around your SUV's tailpipe and suck.
2007-11-17 03:34:43 · answer #9 · answered by Jim T 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There is also big money made in pushing this theory down our throats. Sun spots cause global warming and it is cyclical.
2007-11-17 03:25:30 · answer #10 · answered by Bitsy 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋