Human Caused Global Warming- Fact or Fiction?

Question

The Myth of Dangerous Human-Caused Climate Change


Author/s: R M Carter
Paper ID: 702012
Year of Publication: 2007
Volume Title
Conference Proceedings - New Leaders' 2007


Abstract:

Human-caused global warming has become the environmental cause celebre of the early 21st century. The strong warming alarmist camp currently includes the United Nations, most Western governments, most of the free press, many large corporations (including Enron, before it failed), the major churches, most scientific organisations and a large portion of general public opinion. This phalanx of support notwithstanding there is no scientific consensus as to the danger of human-induced climate change. There is, therefore, a strong conflict between the level of public alarm and its scientific justification. How can this be?

In a democracy, the media serve to convey to the public the facts and hypotheses of climate change as provided by individual scientists, governmental and international research agencies, and NGO and other lobby groups. In general, the media have promulgated an alarmist cause for climate change; they have certainly failed to convey the degree of uncertainty that is characteristic of climate science, or a balanced summary of the many essential facts that are relevant to human causation.

Climate change is as much a geological as it is a meteorological issue. Natural climate changes, both warmings and coolings, are indeed a societal hazard. We usually deal with geological hazards by providing civil defence authorities and the public with accurate, evidence-based, general information about events like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and floods, and then by adapting to the effects when a damaging event occurs. As for other major natural disasters, the appropriate preparation for extreme climate events is to mitigate and manage the negative effects when they occur, and especially so for dangerous coolings. Attempting instead to ‘stop climate change’ by reducing human carbon dioxide emissions is a costly exercise of utter futility. Rational climate policies must be based on adaptation to dangerous change as and when it occurs, and irrespective of its sign or causation.

The issue now is no longer climate change as such, the reality of which will always be with us. Rather, the issues are, first, the failure of the free press to inform the public about the true facts of human-caused climate change and of the dangers posed by natural climate change. And, second, the vested interests held by many of the groups of warming alarmists. These interests include not only the obvious commercial ones, but also the many scientists and science managers who have discounted or remained silent about the huge uncertainties of the human-caused global warming hypothesis because it suited them to do so. Public opinion will soon demand an explanation as to why experienced editors and hardened investigative journalists, worldwide, have melted before the blowtorch of self-induced guilt, political correctness and special interest expediency that marks the sophisms of global warming alarmists.

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Answer 1

Nobody can say global warming has nothing to do with humans causing it, but that is just partly why humans do cause a minor impact. Global warming is also partly a natural process by Earth. One misunderstanding is people think that just because their high temp today was 20 degrees over the normal high was not a cause by global warming or just because you haven't had snow yet it is not global warming. Global warming is and will be a slow and long process, and right now there is not much we can do about it due to about it until we get more data on global warming.

Answer 2

First, I don't know what they mean by "there is no scientific consensus as to the danger of human-induced climate change." This statement is just not true--the reason that the UN scientists issued the report was because they were concerned with the danger of human-induced climate change, and because many feel that there is still a chance to do something about it. As much as it would be nice if human-induced climate change were not real, unfortunately it is. Scientists may differ on the details, but if you picked some large scientific organization (like the American Meteorological Society or American Geophysical Union) and had people vote on whether or not they believed in human-induced climate change, people would vote overwhelmingly (I'd say > 95%) that they believed in it.

Answer 3

Both. The earth was warming anyway. You may notice that you can go in land and dig up sea fossils.. the reason for this is that the sea covered much more of the land for most of the history of the earth - because the climate was warmer. The temperature of the earth is cyclical and it is coming out of a cold phase now.

Humans are making it warm at a faster speed, most likely. People should also probably stop building on flood plains and beaches - so the effects of it wouldn't be so bad.

Answer 4

The major media also serves the government. Global warming is fact, it is the severity that is in question.

Answer 5

basicly i think humans caused it although things like cows and many other natural things contribute towards global warming i think we should stop driving cars and ect when you can walk (say 20 mins away not 5 miles)

Answer 6

Special interests don't want their profits reduced even it they destroy the word for the next generation.

Answer 7

fact

Answer 8

fact