Has man made global warming jumped the shark?

Question

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=f80a6386-802a-23ad-40c8-3c63dc2d02cb

Yes, I do realize that the above release is from a politician, and thus needs to be taken with several grains of salt.

Caldude1 - Climate changes. Always has and always will, regardless of whether man is on the planet. Why do you find that so amazing?

Atom74 - please check out the 1900 Galveston Hurricane to see what real hurricane destruction is all about. http://www.1900storm.com/

Katrina wasn't so bad because of the hurricane, but because of the flooding due to levies breaking.

Answer 1

The biggest threat to the shark population is the Japanese people. They have this insatiable appetite for shark fin soup. They kill the sharks by cutting their fins off and throwing the rest of the fish back in..alive. To die because it can't swim. A shark must swim to breath.

And you caldude....we now know that the "so called evidence" the pro-climate change researchers have is flawed with made up numbers. NASA even backed out of supporting them because they skewed the numbers so bad it would have jeopardized their reputation as a serious scientific group.

Answer 2

Do you realize that the same firm that the tobacco firms hired in the 80's to market cigarettes to the youth is now hired by the US gov't to spin all the media regarding global warming?

I would take anything you read with a huge caution. But from where I am standing I don't recall hurricanes destroying entire cities and stranding tens of thousands in my childhood, whether or not its natural, (which is doubtful, we have destroyed the planet) or man made, you cannot be blind to the fact that something surely has changed in the eco-system and it's definately not for the better.

Answer 3

I'm still waiting to see scientific evidence of global warming.
Most of it is misguided emotional appeal to the heart of the people. Behind that, the creation of a carbon credit market that will benefit governments and traders.
But scientific evidence, none so far.

Just to mention one of the biggest horrors of global warming, they calculate the raise in temperature by using measurements from different locations and times with different instruments and technologies, projecting measurements to periods where there was no measurements or locations where there was no measurements, calculating temperatures using indirect means, averaging, transforming and filtering. At the end of the operation, they come up with a value that's less than a tenth of the accumulated error.

No wonder real scientist (not politicians playing pseudo science) are skeptic.

Answer 4

I have to echo Caldude's words here. If you look at the early days of claims of global warming, similar sorts of doubt were publicized by the right in this country and around the world as a means of politically combating any calls for changes in the way in which we consume and use energy.

That resulted in greater experimentation and investigation, resulting not only in overwhelming evidence that the initial concerns about global warming were correct, but that they were in fact conservative warnings.

Now we see this political drama playing out again: instead of denying global warming, those opposed to any sort of changes are questioning the reasons behind it. It is not only the height of intellectual dishonesty; it is morally dishonest as well.

I am curious what the conservative response will be when the data show overwhelmingly that global warming is directly related to human activities? And a more important question: what ought we to do with those who, for personal and financial reasons, sought to delay any action for two decades?

Cheers.

Answer 5

Hybrid Cars -- it takes more energy to make a hybrid battery than it takes for a Hummer to run all year on gas!!

To fill one tank of pure ethanol fuel it takes the amount of corn to feed one person for a year!!

UNLESS these enviro's get a brain nothing will change.

Korea has invented the air compression vehicle and India has just ordered some. Come on people!

Answer 6

I find it interesting that we have gone from debating whether climate change is even happening to, in a few years, debating whether it is man-made or not.

Who is controlling the information for the anti-climate change crowd? I see a lot of names, but very little research or information being presented.

Whereas, I don't believe everything the chicken little "sky is falling" pro-climate change crowd is saying, but at least they present their data.

Answer 7

I work with one of the contributers to the chapters on global warming that won the Peace Prize. I find the work rather compelling. I would love to see their research, however, this doesn't seem to point to any academic journals.

Answer 8

I hope so.

CO2 is not pollution.