Does anybody really believe in global warming?

Question

I personally don,t. Its just another excuse to tax us

Answer 1

Agree with you. Ask some non government paid scientists they will say the same!! Just to tax us more!!

Answer 2

Earth has a cycle, and the cycle is pretty predictable, give or take a few thousand years of geological time. True, we are about 11,000 years overdue for another ice age, and as Dr. Rodge said, people dwell on that when things go awry. We haven't experienced one yet, and chances are "we" won't, but the Earth will. You have to look at the time span that man has been on the Earth in relation to geologic time. We're just a tiny, insignificant speck in geologic time. So we, who think we own the Earth, get all confused and panic at the slightest change in temperature or any other change that happens. Sure, the ice caps are melting, the temp is rising but these fluctuations are insignificant in Earth's cyclic history. Maybe we have done some damage to the planet, and perhaps speed up the cycle of these minor fluctuations (note: not bring on global warming or an ice age or whatever it is that money/acclaim-driven scientists are hot for this week), but the changes in Earth's cycles take a LONG time to happen, and it's extremely doubtful we'll be around for any extreme changes. The changes we see today are very minor in the Earth's pattern, and likely that's all it ever will be for us. It's impossible to grasp the length of geological time when you're as short-lived as us, none of us really can.

Answer 3

I remember one time, as a child, when there was no snow on christmas. This was strange and had never happened before. But lately snow has become much more scarce on winter. I can´t even remember when there was snow on christmas last as this has become the rule, not the exception. Instead there has been rain storms during this time of the year (it´s raining right now!). The climate is changing EXACTLY as the "scaretacticians" of the nineties said it would with a warmer and wetter climate (for our climate zone).

And you can´t fool nature. Last week a type of heron, that normally roosts by the Mediterranean, was found roosting near the arctic circle. Think it is part of your govenrment conspiracy to tax you? Or is it more likely that it simply found that place to be a suitable place to live as it has gotten warmer? We also have new species of other animals, like spiders and insects, all of a sudden thriving up here where they could never survive the winters before. None of this is coincidence. The climate is changing and it is changing globally. See that word? "Gloooobally". It means everyone is affected. Not just you and your wallet. Your government isn´t taxing me as I live in Sweden. So I am not part of any conspiracy to confuse you. The greenhouse effect and global warming are very real. Without the greenhouse effect the average temperature on earth would be -18 degrees centigrade (0 F). Is it?

Answer 4

Yes I believe in global warming. Also climate change. I believe that its an entirely natural and cyclical phenomenon. I also believe that its sensible for people to take steps ( since we haven't been here too long ) to try and mitigate our effect on it.
This planet was here before mankind and will still be here long after we've been forgotten. We're only living on the thin bit on the outside. What I don't believe is that I should sit here in Britain warming my hands around a candle with no transport while the rest of the world has a whale of a time. We ALL behave sensibly or lets forget it. And I mean sensibly. Not turning it all into a religion where if you don't believe ,you're an idiot. 'cos I'm not. The reason its so big is that people are making loads of money out of dodgy science and fear.

Answer 5

the weather is changing lots right now,
the ocean currents that stabilize the weather have almost stopped,
this is the largest weather change in the last 10 thousand years,
anyone ignoring this would be foolish,
is is global warming ?
the real answer is that no one knows.
it could be the next ice age just as easy as it could be global warming,
the real problem is that so many people have an agenda that unless you look at the data yourself, you really cant tell anything, and if you do look at the data, then you know that no one really has any idea at all.

we know that we can't keep up our energy usage, so cutting back will really help future generations, so that taxes are really not that bad of an idea anyway.

this big weather shift that is happening will likely destroy so many crops that we will not have to worry about taxes anyway.
so relax, nature will fix everything.

Answer 6

Global warming is a process enhanced by the "greenhouse" effect.
This can be demonstrated by a simple experiment in your own home.

Get 2 lemonade bottles and fit a room thermometer into the top of each.

Let normal air into one bottle and put some carbon dioxide into the other. (Splash a bit of fresh lemonade or cola in)

Leave on a sunny window for a couple of hours.

Look at the temperature of each bottle.

The one with the carbon dioxide from the cola/lemonade will have risen by an appreciably larger amount.

Answer 7

Global warming is quite real. It has been measured. The arguments start when you try to decide why it is happening.

There are those who blame industrial emissions of the so-called "greenhouse" gases.

I think they are wrong. I believe Earth's warming is a part of a natural cycle. I don't recall any articles that offered definitive proof of the cause and effect linkage between the two.

Just for the record, I still want to clean up air pollution from factories. For HEALTH reasons. In the case of cause and effect for health issues from air-pollution, that has been proven definitively.

Answer 8

You have to step back and look at Earth history. The people who believe that global warming is upon us are reacting to a tiny glitch in the Earth's life. So roses have blossomed in winter, so what? It has happened before or haven't you heard of Indian Summers (that occur in winter).

In 1947, the sea froze solid, you could have walked from Ramsgate across the Thames Estuary to Southend without getting your feet wet, though you would have had a job negotiating huge slabs of ice that had been upended as the ice sheetl got pushed into the narrowing estuary. At the time, there was anguish that it was the start of a new Ice Age. Well it wasn't was it?

You have to remember that we are still coming out of the last Ice Age and guess what? It will get warmer just as it did when the Earth's surface was at the same point in recovering from previous ice ages. The northerm regions of tectonic plates are still rising and the southern edges are sinking, a delayed action during and after the ice melted. In a few years, Chicago will sink into the water of the Great Lakes. Then it will be the Great Flood caused by Global Rain I suppose.

Of course it's another excuse to grab more taxes from the population. If they increase car tax, will you throw your car away or do less mileage? Of course not, any more than you did after each bogus rise in fuel in the past.

If global warming was caused by human infestation, then it is already too late to do anything about it anyway.

Also, if global warming was real and reversible, greater measures would be in place to do something about that, but they aren't are they? Supermarkets still dish out plastic bags instead ot paper ones. Plastic is still replacing glass, not that changing that situation would make a gnat's difference to the problem, if it were real.

Tearing down the Earth's big forests to make way for the production of bio fuel is completely stupid since production and distribution of biofuel will use more energy than it saves.
(See recent New Scientist). The companies that are doing it are the ones that will make the most out of it when the land becimes available for building on! That's the plan.

Actually, it costs more to recycle a glass bottle than it does to make a new one! The Open University worked that one out years ago and it was the subject of one of its science units. S101 I think.

No one is jumping up and down and showcasing Hydrogen City which was built in the USA decades ago. Every home in the city is supplied with hydrogen for heating and cooking and all transport, public and private, is fuelled by hydrogen. If it was the answer, and the problem was real then every civilised country on Earth would be building similar settlements, but they aren't are they?

It would take very little time or effort to construct solar furnesses by concentrating the Sun's light with parabolic mirrors, but where are they? They should all be in place by now if there was a chance that so called, Global Warming could be prevented, but they aren't are they?

Al Gore spoofed his way round the planet with scientific information that was incomplete. Giving the bloke a Nobel prize was designed to give global warming more credance. I regard his award as an insult to winners who actually deserved it. It also makes his chance of being the next president of the USA much more likely. That's why he did it! When this is pointed out, he pretends to be all coy and say he has no interest in becoming president. Yeah , right!

Politicians are opportunity seekers; spotlight grabbers. They are really parallelling the entertainment industry They don't give two beans about the rest of us, otherwise the problem of global warming, if it was true, would already be solved. The global warming myth is just another opportunity for politicians to get into the spotlight and increase their chances of being re-elected.

The safest way of selecting a government is by ballot, not by ellection. Would you trust a jury if it was made up soley of politicians? No. So why trust them over this?

So yes, Global Warming is a myth and nothing more than a political opportunity to gain more money and more power and more money for the companies they own or boards that they sit on.

Companies have also tried to cash in. B&Q and others tried selling wind generators for some outrageous price that would take fifty years to recoupe in saved electricity. How many people fell for that one?

Just look at what the world's governments have done about global warming. Well, they've talked about it, well some of them have, those that have heard about it!

All the wind generators, wave generators and tidal barriers going up are nothing to do with global warming, they are being built to buffer the shutdown of the nuclear power stations over the coming years.

The end of nuclear power generation is in sight, so definite steps are being taken to deal with that while the new nuclear power stations are being built.

Come on people, see the light, It's going to be nuclear power by fission until they get power from nuclear fusion sorted out, if ever. In the meantime, it's just an excuse to tax us.

Answer 9

The global temperature is constantly changing as this chart proves.
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The whole global warming nonsense is just another excuse for the government to add yet more taxes.

Answer 10

I'de prefer to declare that Haley is pretentious and her approach comes off as elitist and he or she might desire to end being so self-adulating. Get off your intense horse criticizing human beings for there ideals as a results of fact they are not "specialists." improve up. lots of evidence shows that there is alot of sensational journalism and exaggeration by utilizing political elites on scientific archives with reference to worldwide warming, and that for the time of the way it extremely is presented in "An Inconvenient actuality" is wrong. in case you prefer to be close minded and hear on your MSNBC pass forward.

Answer 11

It is a scientific fact, it is not something for you to deny as some government plot to grab your hard earned.
Sure, climates have changed before, but not at the speed it is doing now. In another 50 years the worlds population will be significantly reduced and more than a few sections of the planet will be uninhabitable.
Have you heard the one about the Ostrich with its head in the sand? That is you.