What's you opinion on Man-made Global warming?

Question

Global warming is a hoax, invented in 1988, that combines old myths including limits to growth, sustainability, the population growth time bomb, the depletion of resources, pollution, anti-Americanism and anti-corporate sentiment and, of all things, fear of an ice age. Those that espoused and supported the old myths have joined forced into a new group called “Environmentalists.”

Most environmentalists have no technical or scientific credentials whatsoever. What they have are major news outlets ready and willing to publicize their every utterance regardless of whether or not they are backed up by scientific proof. Atmospheric science requires highly technical knowledge and skills, not possessed by the vast majority of the so-called environmentalists, who yet feel qualified to demand that human activity subjugate itself to the whims of their new deity, Mother Nature.

Answer 1

Right - "Global Warming" is not a science as there is no scientific proof that it is real. There's only a vote of a select group of climatologist to establish a consensus.

Voting on science to determine what a majority thinks is not science. It's just politics.

Answer 2

I am certain the Earth has warmed a little, as it has many times before. I'm also certain man is responsible for a small amount of the warming. The burning of carbon based fuels alone causes direct heating of the atmosphere and the small amount of CO2 that man is responsible for as well as the naturally occurring, causes heat to scatter in the atmosphere there by slowing, but not preventing its escape out into space.

CO2 is a naturally occurring gas. It has one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms. Molecules that have three or more atoms absorb heat and re-emit it in all directions. Water vapor also has three atoms. Water vapor accounts for about 70% of the greenhouse effect depending on how much there is in the clear atmosphere and in the clouds.

There are a number of studies that show cloud cover varies inversely with solar activity. The sun has been more active in the past 7 decades than it has been in the last 8000 years and more of the sun's heat is warming the oceans due to decreased cloud cover. A warming Earth causes evaporation and greatly increases water vapor. The ocean currents move the heat all over the world and can take decades to cool, through the process of evaporation.

NASA's solar scientists are predicting a weakening of solar activity and I believe the climate will respond by cooling if that happens.

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/17402
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Reference_Docs/The_Geologic_Record_and_Climate_Change.pdf
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/sunspot_record_041027.html
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/10may_longrange.htm

Answer 3

The entities with the most to lose are are the ones with the most money. (fossil fuel companies) Therefore, they desperately need an agenda for supressing the truth. Thatis why you see oil companies hiring phony scientists and journalists to deny man made climate change.

The vast majority (98%) of scientists have come to a grim consesus that we are responisble. And they have no financial agenda. Just pure science. IN the last 125 years we used a trillion barrels of oil. We will use the same amount in only the next 30 YEARS. And that's not going to have an effect???

So who you gonna believe? The rich and powerful who would benefit by ignoring this grave problem, or scientists who see a nightmare future - if we don't act now and use our brains?

Answer 4

I am not yet convinced that man made CO2 is as significant as they say. I believe it is a viable theory, but not yet a fact because there are still to many conclusions based on correlations only, and still to many questions on the data accuracy used to estimate past and present temperatures. There are many good people working on this and we will know more later.

I am all for reducing our use of fossil fuels and converting as much as possible to Nuclear, Solar, Wind, etc. Reducing pollution can't be a bad thing, and for our nations security we really need to reduce the need for foreign oil.

Answer 5

Read:
http://www.globalissues.org/EnvIssues/GlobalWarming/media.asp

Answer 6

Big Meltdown should melt frozen some chosen hearts.
But ye (do err) seem to think willing ignorance is bliss.
If any man be ignorant, let him (not you) be ignorant.

They sayers who play "their part" shall have "their end".
Eg: 2Cor 11:15... 1Thess 5:3... Heb 7:23... Jude 1:5.

So then, we'll go with grace is sufficient (no law req'd).

The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Answer 7

My opinion of this question is that it's simply a rant which violates the Yahoo Answers Community Guidelines.

My opinion of your knowledge about the science behind global warming is that it's completely lacking. Invented in 1988? You're off by about a century (plus you can't "invent" a physical phenomenon).

My opinion of man-made global warming is that all the scientific evidence shows that humans are the primary cause of the current global warming.

My opinion of this discussion is that you should be asking about the science, not about your opinion of environmentalists, which is completely irrelevant.

Answer 8

i believe it is a natrual cycle of the planet. It has happned many time before and it is happening right now. We had the warm period and then a mini-ice age and now we are heading back up.

Answer 9

You are so wrong. 98% support it? Where are you getting your data? There is an entire website of a list of scientists who oppose it. Many of the scientists who oppose global warming are retired and don't receive funding anymore so they go by the truth, not by what their funders want to see.

Answer 10

It has happened before and is starting all over again.....