Global warming con introduction?

Question

i need to write a speech about global warming

and i want to be con

please help me

Answer 1

Start here; it covers the basic problems with the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis. You can then expand on the basic thinking without much difficulty.

http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/20...

If you scroll down the page you can download the entire ebook for reading offline.

Answer 2

Water is by far the most influential green house gas at least where there is relatively high humidity.  

"The major greenhouse gases are water vapor, which causes about 36–70% of the greenhouse effect on Earth (note clouds are not made of water vapor and they affect climate in a different way); carbon dioxide, which causes 9–26%; methane, which causes 4–9%, and ozone, which causes 3–7%. It is not possible to state that a certain gas causes a certain percentage of the greenhouse effect, because the influences of the various gases are not additive."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_...

Answer 3

You might open with this question:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

And here's some perspective as well.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...

Answer 4

William Gray, the well-known Colorado State University hurricane forecaster, routinely uses the annual National Hurricane Conference as a platform to bash global warming. In a statement to Florida Today, Gray argued that the scientific consensus on global warming is bogus — and "a mild form of McCarthyism has developed toward those scientists who do not agree" that mankind is in danger.

"We are also brainwashing our children on the warming topic. We have no better example than Al Gore's alarmists and inaccurate movie which is being shown in our schools and being hawked by warming activists with little or no meteorological-climate background," Gray wrote.

Some scientists believe global warming will actually decrease — not increase — the number of hurricanes that form over the Atlantic Ocean each year. Last Friday, in the final session of the hurricane conference, a pair of climate experts said rising sea-surface temperatures in and near the Caribbean could strengthen vertical wind shear. Robust wind shear is the bane of hurricanes, as it tends to tear apart cyclones during their formative stages.

"If (global warming) were to happen, that is an effect which should be more hostile to hurricane building," said Thomas Knutson, research meteorologist with the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, N.J.

Knutson and Chris Landsea, science and operations officer with the National Hurricane Center in Miami, said historic observation data and computer models debunk doomsday scenarios that foresee armadas of deadly hurricanes, slamming into the Southeast. "Any (hurricane) trend we're seeing due to global warming — and I do agree global warming's real, and manmade causes contribute to it — really has very limited impact, very tiny changes," Landsea said.

Both scientists referred to the global warming studies of ocean climatologist Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Emanuel noted that from 1972-2004, Atlantic surface temperatures and hurricane intensity were closely linked.

Answer 5

Talk about the absence of statisticians in a field that depends on statistical methods of data collection, analysis and models.

Answer 6

IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!...

Answer 7

Here are some areas to get started. This should be easy as you have all the science on your side.

http://heartland.temp.siteexecutive.com/...

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenh...

http://www.warwickhughes.com/agri/Solar_...

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images...

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/globa...

There is much more, but this will keep you busy for quite a while.

Answer 8

One of the con arguments is that Pluto is also warming you could mention this, just leave out the part about it warming 3deg compared to the Earths 1deg as that would tend to make it sound like a BS theory.

You could try the one about Volcanoes putting out all the Co2, again don't mention that Volcanic Co2 is ~200-240 Million tons and Man-made Co2 is ~27 Billion tons, that tends to make this theory sound silly.

Answer 9

You could always point out how GW made AL Gore.

Answer 10

Here are 26 arguments against global warming.....

and the scientific reasons they're wrong.

http://environment.newscientist.com/chan...