Why do believers go to extreams with their arguments?

Question

Why not stick with facts?

But instead of facts people who don't believe exactly the same as they do are for:
- Putting arsenic into drinking water
- Clear cutting rain forest
- Killing children, polar bears, and penguins
- Burning forest and homes
- Melting ice caps
- Pro all forms of pollution
- Littering
and so on and so forth....

Why not say:
"At current levels of man made co2 emissions, the global temperature will increase 0.2DegC next month."

If global warming was real and measurable, and predictable, this shouldn't be a problem.

These arguments by intimidation convince me there's nothing to this scam called "global warming"

Answer 1

Maybe casting dispersions on those who don't share their beliefs, helps people feel better about their own beliefs.

Bob, that's an interesting graph - where does it come from? It actually shows the temperature doing what the IPCC predict it will do which is ramp up by 0.2 degrees per decade. It looks a bit different to the graph that the IPCC provide on their own reports though.

Answer 2

I get what your saying about the name calling and badmouthing of people who don't believe in AGW. Your right as well GW cannot be measured and definitely cannot be measured using climate models that can't account for clouds impacts on the climate. Also you can't say that it is not happening with complete certainty. There's decent proof on both accounts. What people should do until this GW debate is settled (which it is not no matter what AGWers say) is clean the air up just to do it. Get off of nonrenewable resources and find a better cleaner way of burning fuel. Nobody knows for certain what effect the extra CO2 will cause, so therefore just make the air clean just to clean it!!

Answer 3

I do see how people can doubt humanity's contribution to global warming.... BUT IF YOU DOUBT THE PLANET IS WARMING YOU ARE A TRULY AN INCOMPETENT IDIOT.

Glacier National Park has only 30 of it's original 100 glaciers at it's conception left!

Many Austrian glaciers are receding 200 feet a year!

We just had a record low amount of sea ice!

Southern Spain is undergoing INTENSE deserfication, and is beginning to look like an extension of the Sahara across the Straits of Gibraltar.

Whether or not humanity is responsible, the fact is the planet is warming, and if you do not see this you are an incompetent fool.

Answer 4

People on both sides go overboard some times.

You're hardly one to talk.

Short term weather is "noisy" and unpredictable. The long term climate isn't. That's basic science.

This graph shows that nicely. Year to year things jump around but the long term average trend is undeniable.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A2.lrg.gif

Answer 5

Here's a better question - why are you incapable of forming an honest question or argument?