Anyone else think "Global Warming" is a sham?

Question

It was "Global Cooling" in the 1970's right??? Please....

Answer 1

you take any issue and hype it enough, then the money starts flowing out of Washington. That's why the information keeps flowing in support of global warming, because it keeps the checks flowing to the scientists. I suppose they're are some warming and cooling cycles we go through, but I'm not going to drive a Yugo so Al Gore and all his rich liberal buddies can fly around in their personal jets.

Answer 2

No. And how dare you assign that as something that God would do! You should be ashamed of yourself. For the record, "those useless space shuttles" are NOT costing tax payers trillions of dollars. As a matter of fact, NASA's entire budget is less than $1 billion a year. You should have some knowledge of the things you discuss before you shoot your mouth off. After all, if you had any idea what you're talking about, you'd understand that the technologies produced by NASA have produced entire industries that have benefitted tax payers, creating jobs associated with those technologies. Do some reading, you'll learn what I'm talking about and you will be surprised. Also, the fuel the shuttles uses is clean burning. Again, know your sources. The shuttle operates on something called a hydrogen cell. The boosters used by the shuttle burn liquified gas which throws out so little green house gases that it's been used in other applications. I really think that your parents need to punish you. They should take away everything you own for the next 3 years, leaving you only with a library card. They should then force you to spend all your free time in the library reading as you dont seem to be getting anything out of the schools. Greenhouse gases and global warming are a reality and you're going to need to deal with that.

Answer 3

I do not believe in global warming has happen in the last 10 years due to factories an cars. Weather patterns have only been recorded for only about 200 years. Is it so wild of an idea that the earth is going through a natural climate cycle. Also one volcano eruption spews enough ash in the atmosphere to blacken the sun for hundreds of miles. Should we protest volcanoes? I do believe there may be changes to the climate but I also believe it may be totally natural. An if you will remember, the record highs where in the 20's during the dust bowl. Who’s to blame for that global warming??

Answer 4

Remarkably few people do and within the scientific community the numbers are almost nil. I work with climate scientists, have done since the 80's and know of six skeptics out of many thousands.

There are various claims made that global warming is a sham but to date not a single one of them has turned out to have any credibility to it. The vast majority of such claims can be traced back to individuals who don't know the first thing about climate or to the misinformation campaign conducted by some of the big oil comanies a few years ago.

Global cooling is something blown out of all proportion by the skeptics. They make wild claims that scientists were predicting an imminent ice age and the world was about to freeze. Ask them to validate their claims with links and all you get is a link to a short article that appeared in Newsweek or effectively the same article reporduced in Time or National Geographic. The sum total of the global cooling scare - a couple of pages in the popular media written by journalists. Simple test - ask people who were around in the 70's if they remember all this supposed doom and gloom, chances are that they'll look at you strange and ask what you're going on about.

Answer 5

I have my doubts about human activity causing global warming.
But as far as cooling goes, the nuclear winter from the 1970's would have been caused by the detonation of nuclear weapons kicking up vast quantities of dust to screen out the sun. It was never meant to be from natural or even slow acting man made causes.

Answer 6

No it's not.

Global cooling in the 70s was an idea of a few scientists. They had no good data, and no backing from ANY major scientific organization.

Global warming scientists today have a mountain of confirming data, and are backed by EVERY major scientific organization.

So the global cooling scientists were NOT in any way like the global warming scientists today.

What they were like is todays so called "skeptics".

More here:

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=94

"The global cooling myth"

Good websites for more info:

http://profend.com/global-warming/
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/
http://www.realclimate.org
"climate science from climate scientists"
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462

Answer 7

I understand the science and man made global warming is a sham.

Answer 8

yes it is just a roll into one sham for the treehuggers.
it covers there anti.
pollution, logging. mining, automobile, power plants, industry, urban sprawl, fishing. growth.

every thing they have been fighting little fights for over the years.

plus this affects the whole world. where before there were some countries that would arrest treehugger like china.

under global warming it makes it easy

Answer 9

He** YES!!! IT IS GOING TO KILL US!!!!!!!
and I'm pretty sure global cooling was in the 1970's ^.^

Answer 10

No, there is significant evidence to show that the average global temperatures have increased in recent years. There is also significant evidence that CO2 concentrations have increased steadily in recent years.

Computer models have been refined and optimized over several years to show how these higher CO2 concentrations will increase our global average temperatures.

When this much evidence all points in the same direction, the conclusion that man-made CO2 emissions will cause global warming is very simple.