Is Global Warming Junk Science?

Question

Is its goal to pick our pockets or save the environment?

Is Al Gore an honest person or a con-man?

Father K, thanks for that link. Everyone who wishes the truth should click on the link.

Here's another good link about global warming: Why Won't Al Gore Debate?

http://www.globalwarmingheartland.org/?gclid=CIyH6eidtZACFQUsPAoduFENLw

Here's another good link about global warming: Why Won't Al Gore Debate?

http://www.globalwarmingheartland.org/?gclid=CIyH6eidtZACFQUsPAoduFENLw

Answer 1

Yes!!

Check out this letter sent just this past week to the U.N. - and signed by 100 eminent PhD.'s and scientists saying JUST THAT!!

http://www.berlingske.dk/article/20071216/verden/71216035/

Answer 2

Well, many scientists dispute much about the global warming
factor, that is, that the earth goes though these normal warming and cooling cycles.

Funny, though, that in the 1970's it was all about global cooling and some predicted a coming ice age.

But no matter any ones view on this subject the simple fact is that world is over-populated and the population must be brought under control. We can do it now in the next two or three generations or we can wait until there is no choice.

Answer 3

Right now it's 32 degrees outside my window and snow flurries are falling. I'm all in favor of a little global warming right about now. My belief is that global warming is a natural occurring event on this planet and happens as part of a regular cycle every hundred/thousand/ten thousand years. Al Gore is probably an honest man but he's also a con man as well...he's a politician remember?

Answer 4

Yes and no. The globe IS warming, and it IS changing weaather patterns, but humankind's contribution to that is so infanitesimal that it is staggering.

The earth goes through natural changes and cycles, in the 1800's we came out of what was "the little ice age" into a warming trend, and are still experiencing that. We have only a hundred years or so of REAL record keeping so we are VERY unaware of the larger sweeping climate changes.

As for pollution and all of that, ONE active volcano puts the same amount of toxins into the air as the entirety of the industrial age - yes, we have contributed, but so very little it is staggering.

Okay, so our contribution to global warming and changing weather patterns is negligible - HOWEVER ... the pollution, over-crowding, over building, and ruination of our natural resources is a REAL problem. We really can not affect global warming or weather patterns, but we HAVE have a significant effect on our own survivability and sustainablity on this planet (as well as that of many other species). So are the environmentalists wrong? - That is "yes and no" too.

Yes, we SHOULD be taking care of our planet and thinking green, but no - we are not even doing THAT responsibly, because 'green' is becoming big business. Selling the PERCEPTION of 'green' has become more important than actual green measures. And it is happening on a geo-political level meaning it will be about conservation NOT to conserve, but to control the globes resources - who has access to it, and who will be allowed to use them.

Answer 5

No. I followed the link kindly provided by Father K. Unfortunately for the yes case the article confirms global warming. It recommends that CO2 should not be used as a marker for global warming on the grounds that it would harm future prosperity. Perhaps we should take economics out of science. If global warming is not related to CO2 then what? The answer idk looks like someone is is putting up their hand for a research grant.

Good question as it illustrates the issues of putting faith in Scientists. Um which Scientists? I would say that Al Gore is as honest as anyone else.

Answer 6

I think the earth has cyclical stages that are normal for what we are experiencing and I think humans have contributed to global warming. I'm one who sits on the fence on this topic seeing the validity of both sides. I think it is over hyped and it might be due to pocket picking and such.

I think Al Gore is an honest man. If we are being duped, he has been duped as I believe his heart is in the right place in respect to global warming.

Answer 7

Al Gore is a preacher, and should be looked at and dealt with as such. Global Warming is an authentic scientific debate. Scientists look at and interpret facts in different ways and fall on both sides of the debate. There is no question that our planet is warming the question is how much of it is due to human influence. I think its a pocket picking enterprise, but who am I to say. As long as scientists fall on both sides of the debate in relatively even numbers we have to consider it to be an open question.

Answer 8

The earth's climate changes constantly, has natural cyclic patterns, and any "changes" are going to happen whether we are on this spinning orb called earth, or not. "Climate change" is not an issue for those who have an education. Like any fundamentalist dogma it's a distraction to confuse and dis-empower people with complete nonsense. The whole idea is ludicrous. Besides, who's to say that a desert becoming greener, tundra becoming grassland, coastlines disappearing, once isolated areas becoming livable, means we can't change our way of life on earth and prosper? That's the thing. The earth is a living being. People are going to change the climate? I'd like to see that!

I'd rather see the rivers unpolluted, the animals and birds with their own habitat free of human intervention, whales not hunted, animals not slaughtered, alternative power and cars commonplace ............a sustainable future. I'm willing to go without for some of that.

Answer 9

Liberals have not any problem with mendacity. See the observed owl. lots of "scientists" claimed that they'd in basic terms stay in old growth wood and could grow to be extinct if we decrease down lots as one greater tree. Then the image of the reclusive observed owl residing in a Kmart sign confirmed up. OOOPPPS! Then there grow to be the solitary caribou who could no longer ever co-exist with a pipeline which might forestall their mating and wipe them from the face of the earth. those incredibly respected scientists have been added to congress and testified to this. OOOOPPPS, i assume they made a mistake. The herd is larger than ever. The caribou love the pipeline. Then there grow to be international cooling... OOOPPS. Then there have been those scientists who pronounced we in basic terms had 10 years in the past it grow to be throughout, (in 1989). OOPS. There there have been the German scientists who pronounced international warming grow to be taking a 10 365 days "ruin". Yep, actual Einsteins...... OOOPs..... Now we hit upon they are fudging data to added their faith. Gee, enormous marvel......

Answer 10

I don't care about Al Gore much, but if you think it's "junk science", you should take it up with the two most prestigious scientific groups in the US and the UK, because their joint statement is here:

http://royalsociety.org/document.asp?latest=1&id=3222

It's also been signed by the equivalent groups from almost every industrialized country. The only scientific organization to express skepticism has been the National Petroleum Geologists Association.

Which exists because they didn't care for the opinions coming from the main association for geologists in the United States.

Answer 11

This year, we've been hit with ice storms, snow, everything that is NOT a sign of "global warming".

Al Gore's an @$$hole and a hippocrite.