AGW believers: do you honestly think the world is going to end from climate change?

Question

Do you really think that Katrina was caused because Bush didn't sign the Kyoto treaty? I mean, come off it, people.

Don't you have more things to worry about than the world warming or cooling?

Don't scream and yell at me, I know I offended a bunch of people.

Answer 1

i think we should work to stop climate change now

cause were kinda the ones causeing it

but its not only us that its effecting

and ya we have lots of other things to worry bout too

but global warming should deffinitly be among them

Answer 2

O U R O P I N I O N

An alarmist’s solution to criticism

    Unless you’re among those who follow the global warming controvery with considerably more intensity than the average citizen, the name James Hansen probably doesn’t ring any bells. But it should.

    Hansen is the original global warming alarmist. He is currently the head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Twenty years ago, in an appearance before several Congressional committees, Hansen warned that increasing human-generated CO2 content in the earth’s atmosphere was pushing up global temperatures, and that if generation of CO2 wasn’t cut back, we would face a “tipping point” from which there could be no return, and that the result of warming would doom life on earth as we know it.

    He was called to testify in the early ’80s because in 1981 he and a team of scientists at Goddard had concluded that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would lead to global warming sooner than previously predicted. While other climatologists had already predicted that a trend would be apparent by 2020, Hansen predicted, in a paper published in Science, that the change was already occurring and that there would be record high temperatures as early as 1990.

    In June of this year Hansen again testified before a Congressional committee, on the anniversary of his first alarmist appearance. And what has happened to global temperatures in the intervening 20 years? According to the University of Alabama at Huntsville, global satellite temperature data show that earth’s temperature has indeed changed; it’s gone down by half a degree (Fahrenheit). So much for Hansen’s prediction about tipping points, and carbon dioxide dangers, etc., etc.

    But Hansen also did something else at in June. At an informal media event hosted by Worldwatch Institute, an environmental activist group, he called for criminal trials against scientists, corporate executives, and public policy advocates who disagree with him. He said skeptics are guilty of “crimes against humanity.” If you oppose his theories, in other words, you’re no better than Hitler, Stalin, Robert Mugabe, Papa Doc Duvalier, and the rest of history’s mass murderers, and ought to be sent to jail — or worse — for holding such views.

    Much of the above is from the August issue of Environment & Climate News, a Heartland Institue publication. The Heartland Institute, you may not know, is a non-profit environmental organization that challenges global warming theories. Two letters to the editor today take note of a story published in the Sunday Press Dispatch (albeit buried on D7) that some 31,072 American scientists have signed a petition rejecting Hansen’s — among others — assertions that global warming has reached a crisis stage that is caused by human activity. The story about the petition originated with the Heartland Institute.

    The petition puts the lie to claims such as the one by Al Gore (“The debate is over”) that there’s any sort of general agreement among the world’s scientific community about global warming, either as to what is causing it, that it’s in fact happening, or that there’s anything humanity can do about it.

    Hansen, you might also want to know, is indeed a scientist. He’s an astronomer. But stifling dissent of his theories by shouting, “Off with their heads” does not exactly comport with scientific method. So it’s no surprise to also learn he’s Al Gore’s adviser on science. Uh huh.

    Steve Williams

Victorville Daily Pres

7-29-08

Answer 3

Scientists now say Global Warming causes less Hurricanes

Answer 4

No.  The world will still be here.  But, will it be one we can survive in or will we go the way of the dinosaurs?  Maybe you should ask the Creationist Museum.  They've got 6 thousand years of deniability.

Answer 5

The death and destruction was caused by massive flooding by the breached ("faulty") levees--not by the hurricane!  T. Boone's wind turbines and Gore's carbon offsets wouldn't have prevented that, for sure.

Answer 6

I have to somewhat agree with you on the ridiculousness of some of the claims made about global warming.  I think they are made by people who do not see the overall picture in much the same way people with your opinion don't either.  Change is inevitable, global warming will occur with or without us.  The problem I think truly lies in what we do helping that change to come about more quickly.  The greenhouse gasses we add only make the change happen faster.  The problem is that global warming may not kill us but it can sure make it uncomfortable to live.  Can we do something to slow that change down, yeah, I think we could.

Answer 7

No, the world will not end.  If we don't do anything, a lot of people will die.  Human lifestyles will have to change.  We won't be able to live the cushy life that we currently live.  People will have to spend a lot more time trying to adapt to the changing climate.  There will be droughts, heat waves, food and water shortages, etc.  It will not be pretty, but the world will be fine.

No, Katrina was not caused by Bush or global warming.  When Katrina passed over the Gulf of Mexico, the high sea surface temperature (SST) made it stronger.  The SST would not have been as high if not for global warming.

You didn't offend me, but I wish you would take some time to study the science behind global warming.  The link below is a good start.

Answer 8

No i dont think so. I believe the world ends for one who dies. we are just going through global warming and next is the ice age.

Answer 9

I really find it difficult to comprehend the fascination people have with morbid things and then they get in a real tizzy when other do not get turned on by morbid things. I am a student of history and family records report several periods considerably warmer than it has been in the last hundred years or so. But then again we find that persons with a Teutonic and other eastern genetic traits like Saxon's and such love to live on the edge of panic, they say it makes them feel more alive. Panic bores me to death, I much prefer to plan for contingencies and make life easy and comfortable.

Answer 10

They probably just don't have anything better to worry about.

Answer 11

Nope.

It won't be a Hollywood movie style disaster. Gradually coastal areas will flood and agriculture will be damaged. But it will be very bad. Rich countries will cope, but it will take huge amounts of money. In poor countries many people will die of starvation, but not all of them.

Answer 12

No...from the plain fact, we shouldn't be here to begin with. It's not explainable, just precocious.

Answer 13

100 years ago it was that the "Gods" were angry with us, that we needed to fix our moral compass to make the world right.

Now it's the Earth that is angry as we gave it "a cold" and we need to fix our environmental moral compass to appease the world.

Next the claim will be made that all or the wind turbines effect the climate by calming the winds and that wind turbines must be taken down to prevent "global calming".