Are global warming deniers/ obstructionists being irresponsible with our future?

Question

Each year that passes that we "wait" before acting - isn't this an irresponsible act?

Ranger; Please explain what arrogance has to do with the topic?

And please provide a link to your claim about Mt. St. Helens.

Answer 1

Absolutely. Look at the IPCC's newest warnings from the summary just released today:

"As early as 2020, 75 million to 250 million people in Africa will suffer water shortages, residents of Asia's megacities will be at great risk of river and coastal flooding, Europeans can expect extensive species loss, and North Americans will experience longer and hotter heat waves and greater competition for water, the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says.

The potential impact of global warming is "so severe and so sweeping that only urgent, global action will do," Ban told the IPCC after it issued its fourth and final report this year."

"The report says emissions of carbon, which comes primarily from fossil fuels, must stabilize by 2015 and go down after that. Otherwise the consequences could be "disastrous," said IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri."

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AgCxBALgHOtjhactMX_WFDjsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071117100323AAaNk2C

We're running out of time to avoid the worst impacts of global warming, and any attempts to prevent taking action are completely irresponsible.

Answer 2

Forgive me, but I got this off a movie. " I would rather have a condom and not need it, than need it and not have one." Based on that, the consequences of inaction now will far outweigh the problems we will have if we are wrong and do nothing. Most people pay money for fire extinguishers they hope to never use and most of us never had to use them. Yet we still have them just in case. Why not treat the environment the same. Let's use extra caution here, because it is the only environment we have. If my house burns down, I can rebuild and replace. You can't quite do that with the environment.

Answer 3

My take, Dana, with all honesty, is which you're no longer severe sufficient of the different scientists on your field and their theory. you need to understand that there is not any longer something incorrect with denying a concept that observations do no longer help (AGW). you're too trusting of the assumption and that i each and every so often ask your self why you do no longer see that temperature as we talk isn't something out of the common, and that radical wild version in climate is totally organic. i do no longer think of scientists are stupid, in actuality, quite the different. i think of particularly intelligent human beings are able to bobbing up with good reasons to assist undesirable theories, extraordinarily if specific effects advise that the investment of their study and jobs will proceed. the techniques particularly, particularly, particularly does no longer help a disaster in any respect. In a prior placed up you made clean which you anticipate ever increasing disaster (food & water shortages, and so on.) i in my opinion think of you may save an open techniques to what John Cristy and others are asserting. each and all of the main suitable to you.

Answer 4

I would love to debate the topic with you but I doubt that you have researched the data and would be worthy of the time. I doubt that you remember y-2K or the Ice age that was just around the corner in the 1970's.

I also doubt that you are arrogant enough to believe that man can cause or can control weather or the climate. Check the data on the amount of "greenhouse gasses" that Mt. St Helens released on the 1st day of it's eruption. You will find that it several million times the amount of all those same gasses that man has produced in our existence. If that doesn't turn on a light I doubt that you can be convinced that we are so very insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

Answer 5

Are we having global warming? Yep! BUT!!!! Those who are crusading for global being caused by man are ignoring one fact. If the sun gets warmer, so do we. If it gets cooler, so do we, and there's absolutely nothing we can do about it, either way. The sun is so much more powerful than anything all the nations on earth could do working together that the effort would be futile, absolutely futile. The liberal's position on this issue appears to be based on their belief of their own self importance in the ways of the universe, that they think they can overpower the power of the sun in order to get the results they want. Hogwash! Total, complete and absolute hogwash.

Answer 6

It passes over the minds of denier that most of the scientist who say global warming doesn't exist are funded by the oil companies, the ones who have the most to lose.

Answer 7

What future? You're only here for a little while. You die at some point. Trying to control the weather and climates is not going to make you live any longer than what you are going to live now. Now fretting over something you can't control might just cause you to die sooner. So chill out.

Answer 8

Irresponsible,stupid,dangerous, But please folks lets stop trying to politicize this issue.We all know that once politicians get their hands on an issue partisan politics prevents any constructive dialog. Lets leave this up to science.

Answer 9

Isn't irresponsible to assume that we meager beings have anything to do with the climate of a planet? Isn't irresponsible to force others to conform to your green lifestyle when the earth has already experienced warmest year (1998)? Isn't irresponsible to push your propaganda when you cannot even tell me what the perfect climate for this planet is?

Answer 10

ok, here's what happened.

the tobacco companies wanted some scientists to find 'evidence' that second hand smoke wasn't really all that harmful, but thought it would appear unlikely if that was the only issue that they took up.

so these same scientists also decided to throw a bit of water on the global warming awareness - just as a cover for their other ideas.

and of course, what stuck was the fallacy that global warming isn't real and no one in the world believes that second hand smoke isn't deadly.

so, when you hear someone deny that global warming exists based on some scientific evidence - bear this in mind...