Are the costs of global warming too high to ignore?

Question

This is for a class debate, and im arguing for the "yes" side, any ideas on strong arguments? Many thanks. (=

Answer 1

Yes of course its not.

Answer 2

Are you talking about the cost – albeit purely speculative – of lives lost due to global warming; or the fairly quantifiable number of lives lost due to global warming madness that prevents underdeveloped nations from becoming developed?

Or are you talking about the cost of the Kyoto Protocol, which has bilked the world out of over 470 Billion dollars (US) and can only potentially reduce temperature by 0.005° C by 2050?

Or are you talking about the millions of dollars in bogus “carbon taxes” the people of earth will have to pay?

Just wondering ....

Answer 3

Well, Gore is spending 300 million on another brainwashing ad campaign.  Why are they trying so hard to convince us when it is actually cooling?  The fact is that they (alarmists) attached themselves to a natural phenomenon that cannot be denied and attached their fatalistic, catastrophic theories behind it and are cashing in.

CO2 is 385 parts per million....  That equals 1,000,000 / 385 which is about one 2500th of our atmosphere and that is causing global warming.  You have got to be kidding!!!!

Answer 4

You'll need facts, not emotional arguments.  

I'm afraid you'll find few.  Wild speculation at best.

Answer 5

OK , The highest cost is the paranoia this will cause the world, go with that. The cost is not monetary but emotional.

Answer 6

Yes the cost (in dollars) of implementing all the policies proposed by advocates of global warming is much to high to ignore.

Answer 7

Obviously not since many are still ignoring it.

Answer 8

Well, the costs of all of the lives lost from more frequently occurring hurricanes, droughts, floods, and natural disasters are hard not ignore, but you can. That's what a lot of people are doing, just ignoring it.

You can;t argue with the facts that our earth is heating up and glaciers are melting, and that it is oddly connecting to the rise of CO2. :P

Answer 9

I was just going for some hobbies-tic research on global warming and this is what I found:

Global warming is a natural phase of Earth, caused by some Solar Activities by Sun. We human don't have to bother about it. Some of the environmentalist says that this is because of the CO2 we are emitting into the environment, but the reality is that we are just contributing towards 1% to 10% of actual global warming.

If the actual cause of Global Warming is CO2 emitted by the humans then why Global Warming occures on other planets. Just Google for "Global Warming on other planets" and see the results, there are no humans on other planets.

Having too little CO2 in the environment will cause for the plants to die more early, more over it also cools down the temperature on earth.

Having too much CO2 (obiviously, not caused by humans. Mostly generated in the Sea/Oceans) will lead to Green House effect and will lead in increasing the temperature on Earth.

So, the best is to plant more trees so that there would be a balance for the consumption of CO2 on the planet.

I personally think that instead of thinking on this baseless issue try to think on what if Nuclear War broke out in the world, it will destroy Earth more rapidly.

So, next time whenever somebody says you about global warming, just ignore it.

Answer 10

economic costs;

stern report;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6098...

environmental costs;

6 degrees of warming;

http://www.marklynas.org/2007/4/23/six-s...

risk analysis;

What's the Worst That Could Happen?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDHcNR-J6...

Answer 11

What are the costs? so far global warming is unproven so how can the costs be calculated?