We hear all about Global Warming, but a recent panel of scientists disagree with the whole thing. Comments?

Question

Heres the article:
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/925

The UN held a conference in Bali indonesia. They believe the carbon emmissions don't affect the enviroment. The amount of planes the UN officals took to Bali gave more pollution than 20,000 cars.

On the other hand, Al Gore believes we are in a crisis. That carbon emmissions are effecting things.

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

Only a small percentage of scientists disagree. Universally, most agree.

Answer 2

Scientists report the Arctic ice melt this summer was like nothing they had ever seen. Some are talking in terms of the world having reached an ominous tipping point, where the Arctic sea might be ice free during the summers as early as five years from now.

Gee. Do you think we might be headed to real trouble -- along with polar bears, the penguin population at the other pole and tens or hundreds of thousands of other species from the Cascades to the Caspian Sea? If so, it's not going to be reflected in the Bush administration's strategy of slashing the scope of any international undertakings that may come out of the current Bali conference on climate change.

In his Nobel Peace Prize lecture, Al Gore spoke about "a planetary emergency." He was right. The Arctic ice melt suggests the emergency is worse than most of us imagine.

Even the most guarded of the most accepted scientific assessments say some level of warming will be with us for decades. But we can limit the extent of the damage to climactic systems and their impact on human society.

Gore also said in Oslo: "We still have the power to choose our fate, and the remaining question is only this: Have we the will to act vigorously and in time, or will we remain imprisoned by a dangerous illusion?" Even among those most wedded to wishful thinking, the illusions should be cracking.

Answer 3

A very small minority of scientist do not believe global warming is happening. The rest just bicker about how to model it, what are the exact effects and when will the worst begin to happen.

Most of the global warming opponents (businesses, some politicians, think tanks and the scientists they employ) have a vested interest in not doing anything, so you should mostly ignore them.

Al Gore and his environmentalist friends have an interest in harming the large corporations, so expect them not to tell the truth either (they exaggerate to scare people into action).

However, the vast majority of scientists have no hidden agenda (don't say grant money, if they were unethical enough to do that they would be GW opponents as Exxon pays better), so you should hold their opinion in much higher regard.

Answer 4

These must be some really dumb scientists. Corrections to 3 of their lies:

1) The current rate of warming is the fastest in the past 10,000 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Holocene_Temperature_Variations.png

2) There has been net global warming since 1998. To claim otherwise is to either be ignorant of science and statistics or to be purposefully deceitful.

http://tamino.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/t1998.jpg

3) In no way is the current warming consistent with any natural cycle. The Sun's output remains unchanged, and based on orbital cycles we should be in the middle of a cooling period.

"An often-cited 1980 study by Imbrie and Imbrie determined that 'Ignoring anthropogenic and other possible sources of variation acting at frequencies higher than one cycle per 19,000 years, this model predicts that the long-term cooling trend which began some 6,000 years ago will continue for the next 23,000 years.'"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycle

If I were in charge at the Bali conference, I wouldn't let these liars in either.

Answer 5

The issue isn't warming but the anthrogenic origin of it, if any. The predictions of human causation come from computer models which don't pass the simple test of "back-checking". That is they should certainly be able to explain a priori the existence of ice ages and warming spells that have occurred in the past, before there was any chance of human intervention. They cannot do so. One can only conclude that the models are insufficient to include such important variables as solar flares/ sunspot variation, cosmic ray influence on cloud formation, carbon feedback to the proliferation of ocean photosynthesizing plants ( algae, seaweed, etc ).

Al Gore has been on the same kick for decades before any of the recent evidence he cites occurred. He is not a scientist and doesn't seem even to understand the process by which science proceeds. He refuses to debate the issue with various scientists who have challenged him and prefers to make a political issue of it although the remedies he proposes are orders of magnitude more expensive than any possible harm. He also indulges in scare tactics ignoring the fact that Man can adapt to almost anything, especially when change occurs over an extended period of time. Manhattan will NOT be submerged, under the most pessimistic of the fanciful scenarios he comes up with: the Netherlands have managed to live below sea level for centures.

Answer 6

"Global Warming" the name is all wrong. And that's the reason most people that "disagree" throw up resistance. The "simple" fact is that the world is NOT heating up significantly. However, many local climates are shifting. But you know what this whole planet is constantly shifting around dynamically. An earthquake here, a tornado there, 5 hurricanes in 3 years in one city...none of this is global catastrophe stuff, just typical planet climate shifting.

And Al Gore? Al Gore doesn't have any science degrees....hell this is the same idiot that "invented the internet". What a politician believes isn't worth spit. I got a guy up the street that believes aliens are spying on us.

Answer 7

In my opinion global warming is real and is happening. However, climate change is very normal and has happened in obvious cycles through out earths existence (think ice age). Although carbon emission do impact our environment, they are quickly outnumbered by natural carbon emissions, like from volcano's. Also plants need carbon monoxide to create our oxygen. If things get as hot as scientists say, I think people, plants, and animals will adapt. I also think that a far greater concern than carbon emissions are hazardous waste products from factories, farms, sewage sludge, nuclear weapons, household and industrial cleansers, general consumer waste, and so on.

Answer 8

Global warming is just a money making scam!!!

Carbon taxes etc.

Al Gore is going to get very rich from this.

Our weather has actually been colder for the last 5 years, & the same in most places!!!

Even if we obeyed Al Gore's lies we would see no difference.

Thank God he's not running for President!!

I also now do not believe in the Nobel Peace prize.

Answer 9

yeah--ALGORE flies around on private jets all the time.

How serious can we take it if he does not.

There is little doubt that the earth is getting warmer.--I think the most drastic estimate was 2 degrees over the next 100 years.

This sounds like a MINOR temperature change at best--after all every living animal on the planet has to be able to adjust to a 2 degree change in his environment on a DAILY if not hourly basis.

But for some reason the global warming NAZIs are out to turn the lives of the entire world upside down because of this 2 degree change they predict 100 years from now.

Never mind the fact that the local weather guys can't get that close on a daily basis themselves 5 out of ten times.

But what gets to me is why fly around saying the "sky is falling" as you go from global warming conference to global warming conference in a PRIVATE JET.

HE HAS TO BE ABLE TO SEE THE HYPOCRISY IN THIS!

Also what bothers me--Why did ALGORE win the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE---for his work on GLOBAL WARMING!

that just irks me too!

The earth goes through cycles of warming and cooling that take place over thousands of years---LIKE THE START AND END OF THE ICE AGE! So how do they figure out global warming based on a few decades of data and finger CARBON EMISSIONS.

Lastly---Scientist say Mars is getting Warmer because of the SUN--but the earth --which is at least 100 million miles closer--is getting warmer because of the SUVs.

And you bring up sunspots and global warming. The crowd of treehuggers just can't believe you would dare present an alternate theory to the MASSES.

Answer 10

A recent article in Newsweek offered reasonably convincing evidence that the panel you refer to was paid by a consortium of oil companies to say that, in order to protect their profits.

I don't know if you know who Dr Isaac Asimov was, he was a Stephen Hawking-like scientist with degrees in Biology and Chemistry, who wrote a lot of n0n-fiction science education books, both textbooks and popular science. He believed that global warming was real, and a serious threat. And if Isaac Asimov thinks so, I'm inclined to trust his judgment.

Answer 11

When has Al Gore ever insisted that India reduce it's cow population?

Cow Flatulence NOT cars here in the U.S. are the largest contributers believe it or not. IT IS ACTUALLY COW FARTS NOT CARS THAT IS THE PROBLEM! May sound like I'm being funny but it's actually true.

And where are the most cows... India! "India is home to a quarter of the world's cow population. One major reason for this is that India's majority Hindu community reveres cows and considers them to be "second mothers." ..

And that contradicts the Fox New article (link below) that says eat less meat. In India they have more cows because they don't eat meat. So fire up your BBQ and save the planet!

"Livestock are responsible for 18 per cent of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together.." "American cars are responsible for some 6 percent of greenhouse gases."

So if we got rid ALL U.S. cars that only solves 6 percent of the problem! So let's get real about this for once.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/12/12/EDGOULJ5L51.DTL

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GlobalWarming/story?id=2723201&page=1

http://www.thepiratescove.us/?p=3220

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/holycow/

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296646,00.html

http://shockandblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/save-planet-eat-cow.html