Do you think global warming is a hoax?

Question

Even if it is, wouldn't it be useful to develop alternative fuels and efficient technology? Our resources aren't going to last forever and human populations will soon meet the carrying capacity of the Earth.

What do you think?

Answer 1

I agree.  But that should be done when the technology becomes feasible and efficient. Right now it is not efficient.  If it were market forces would have implemented these policies right now.

Answer 2

It is hard to know how much to believe and how much is lies and exaggeration on the part of the media.  Science is limited in terms of what it really knows, and scientists often disagree completely among themselves.  I also know that the media often intentionally lies because the lies and deception are expected from the journalists by the system that employs them, and I know that journalists can be bought.

The expression, "I'm from Missouri", meaning "I have to see it with my own eyes to believe it", could sum up my own opinions on it.  Greenland acquired its name because it used to be green.  Most of it, except for a small part along the coast, is now ice-covered mountains.  Global temperatures often fluctuate over the span of decades.  It does bother me when I see people throwing out aluminum drinking cans and styrofoam.  It also bothers me to watch the waste of paper and plastic that is part of the fast food industry.  I really do wonder where all this type of garbage is going, because I do not believe that synthetic material like plastic and styrofoam is very bio-degradable.

It is also true that fossil fuel resources are not going to last forever, especially at the rate at which they are being consumed.  Fuel is often burned frivolously.  The amount of usable soil on the planet is actually shockingly small and not increasing in size.

I think it is more important to try to conseve energy and reduce as many forms of pollution as possible, rather than to become obsessed with global warming.  For example, if people used their heads about deforestation, waste disposal and fuel consumption, some of the problems with the earth's temperature hopefully would start to correct themselves.

I am not sure how to explain the current plight of the polar bear.  I hope they are saved.  A lot of the species who are becoming extinct are decreasing in numbers because they are being hunted by human beings for no useful purpose.

Answer 3

The thermo-haline current (gulf stream) has slowed by 50%

Do you know what effect thats going to have....

OH BOY

Climate change is no hoax

Check it out for yourself...

Answer 4

To even ask this question indicated you need to do some serious reading ... there is validation from science with

photographic proof.

Certainly alternative fuel sources are a necessity if we want

to continue fueling or powering our lifestyle. Like most things

humanity took the easiest way and snowballed it through their

self-centered agenda into a harmful misuse that needs righting before it completely destroys the planets health which means not just human health but human survival along with the planet.

Answer 5

I don't think it is a hoax but perhaps there is another explanation for WHY it's happening. There is no question any more that Earth is definitely getting warmer. Maybe Earth is getting warmer because of the sun getting hotter/more solar flares. The summer Katrina happened had the stongest solar storms. After all, all other planets are becoming warmer.

Or maybe Earth is getting warmer because of the shark population being wiped out. Sharks feed on animals that eat plankton, which absorb carbon dioxide (which trap the sun's heat in the atmosphere). This is no expert's theory, just my own.

Al Gore is not the first to call global warming to mind. He's just the person to call the most attention to global warming. He is also the one to make the biggest waves on bringing people to be aware of global warming. Global warming had been a theory (I say "theory" since I believe everything/idea is a theory) long before Al Gore brought it up. Just because you first hear of something, doesn't mean it didn't exist before then.

Answer 6

1.  yes global warming is a hoax

2.  WE AREN"T GONNA RUN OUT OF FUELS ANYTIME SOON...WE JUST NEED TO DRILL FOR IT HERE INSTEAD OF DEPENDING ON THE MIDDLE EAST

Answer 7

A hoax is something that a person or group of people do to fool another person or group. No one has the ability to cause the world's temperatures to raise to the point where the norther polar ice cap is melting and not re-freezing during the winter.

Regardless of it being a natural change, an affect of our using green house gas producing technology or a combination of a natural change accelerated by our industries, we do need to develop not only newer and more efficient sources of energy, we need to change the way we live.

Good luck. I can't get people who live within a mile of me to car pool to the same place that we worked at! I've been riding my bike to any destination that I need to get to within 10 miles of my house and been called crazy for it.

But I'm also not putting more money into my car than I did last year. Crazy? Yeah... people say that until they see the amount of money I'm NOT spending on gas and still feeding my family.

Answer 8

To say that puny human beings can somehow "save the planet" is really pathetic. The earth was here before you and it'll be here when you're gone. Just enjoy yourself while you're here, you don't get a second chance.

Answer 9

YES

Answer 10

climate change is real, sometimes it gets warmer, sometimes it gets cooler...that part is not a hoax...gore/obama/g*y/greenie/enviro/pol... invasion of the topic is silly, and their 'fix' for the problem is absolutely as dangerous as it is silly...good quesiton

Answer 11

As an Armageddon event that man contributes to, yes; as a cyclical atmospheric phenomenon, no.

Answer 12

Yes, but that's not going to happen.  For example, everyone knows from experiments in other countries that corn based ethanol is really inefficient and wastes a lot of water, energy, land (deforestation), and other resources.  Even non-corn based ethnol is leading to deforestation in Brazil.  Yet they're still doing it.  That should tell people that it's not really about saving the earth, conservation, and reducing pollution and waste.  It's about making money for a very few and controlling lives--this is why I reject the scheme.

Answer 13

Wrong !!! Where do U think our present fossil fuel came from.  Wrong again it is from fossil plants not animal. Plants have recycled CO2 for millions of years . The surprise is the plants are still recycling CO2 into O2 and the C into oil . We will never run out of fossil fuel.

Answer 14

I don't think it's a hoax, because it's been proven that the climate goes through cycles and changes. But I do believe that people are blowing it way out of proportion.

I agree that coming up with alternative fuels and better energy plans would be helpful, whether global warming is actually a  huge threat or not.