Hold on, do you really think global warming is FAKE?

Question

Someone asked a question about why Americans don't care about global warming. I was shocked to read answers to find that the majority of 'thumbs up' went towards people claiming global warming is fake.

I mean there's physical evidence everywhere showing the rapid changes as a result of it, and yet some people are so persistent on disagreeing with it. Give some evidence as to why it's 'fake'.

So, do you think it's fake or not?

Answer 1

personally i dont think its fake....

people only think that because they cant hear taste touch smell ... etc ... it so if they cant do that.. its 'not real'

Answer 2

Let me start off by saying we (my family and I) live 100% off of the grid and are completely self-sufficient with a 0% Carbon footprint. I believe this is the first step anyone can make “help the environment”. Once you convert your own life style to a greener more eco friendly route, you can start helping others.

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We definitely didn't start global warming, but we definitely do contribute to it now.

Natural gas (or Methane along with other thanes) for example, is completely a natural contributer to global warming and is derived pretty much the same way as oil. ie. Matter (animal, plant etc) decomposes over time resulting in a anaerobic (hope I spelled that right) decay of non-fossil organic material / gas (natural gas or methane).

One problem with global warming is that the concept is so vague in the minds of the people. The critical interpretation is basically how it’s explained in school and the news. However most of the public see global warming connected with the ozone and pollutants which cause harmful greenhouse gasses, etc. therefore investigating and fighting for things like alternative energy (ie. Solar, wind, hydrogen, ethanol, biodiesel, etc)

Greenhouse gases are real and do contribute to global warming. Think of the different gas layers like ozone (o3) that circumference the globe as the clear plastic on a greenhouse. Longer rays of light from the Sun go in and reflect off different thermal masses bouncing back and creating shorter lengths of energy that cannot exist the plastic barrier. These beams then just continue to bounce around inside the green house until they’re finally absorbed completely (some do escape but very few), thereby warming the greenhouse greatly even in cold temperatures.

Basically there are 2 ways that this reaction (or lack of) affects the planet. Global warming and global cooling.

1. as we add to the gases in the stratosphere, where the ozone layer is (Carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, etc), we add to the plastic of the greenhouse, trapping more short wave length energy and heating the earth more.

2. as we deplete the ozone (with chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs), we allow more long wave length energy, which bounces back out to space without heating any thermal masses on earth, thereby cooling the planet.

It’s pretty easy to see the results..

Melting ice sheets & glaciers

Floods & droughts

Great hurricanes & cyclones

Seasonal extremes

Seasonal phenomena’s

Species extinction

New & resurgent diseases

There are many ways to stop both global warming and cooling from accruing or at least slow them down until we can discover a way to reverse it, but Stop burning fossil fuels is the biggest.

I currently own 2 converted h2 vehicles which run on 100% hydrogen and 1 EV (electric vehicle), not to mention our home is completely off the grid, using alternative energy (solar, wind, etc)

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Answer 3

Personally, I think that the whole "it's 100% caused by humans" thing is a fraud. It's been proven that there have been large upswings in temperatures in the past, which have been followed by a large depression in temperatures (i.e. the Ice Ages). Also, carbon dioxide comes from other sources besides fossil fuels. As part of respiration, we expel carbon dioxide with each exhalation from the body. We take thousands of breaths each day, so take that little bit of carbon dioxide times a couple thousand and you get a bigger level of carbon dioxide expelled by the body each day. Take that times 6.2 billion (the population of the earth) and you get a very high amount of carbon dioxide put into the air every day. Also (according to PBS, Discovery Channel, and History Channel documentaries) carbon dioxide comes from multiple sources in the earth, with volcanic eruptions being at the top of the list.

There is also one extremely potent greenhouse gas that most people overlook every time they think of the "global warming" situation: methane. Methane is produced naturally by decaying matter (such as sewage, dead plants and animals, and animal f***s) and also comes from "methane hydrate," or "methane clathrate," which is commonly referred to as "methane ice." In the oceans, there is near constant volcanic activity (this is how the Hawaiian Islands were formed, as well as many of the islands in the Pacific Ocean). When this volcanic activity warms the ocean near a pocket of this methane ice, the methane and water separate, and the methane rises into the atmosphere, where it acts as a much stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

My bottom line is that I think we are contributing to the natural rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but that's it. Just a contribution. Meaning that we aren't the only issue. My belief is that the earth will adjust like it has in the past when the temperatures fluctuated every couple hundred thousand years.

Answer 4

Global warming is not fake, and just proves some people dont understand there actions, useing energy, litering, not recycleing, useing to much plastic, etc. every single thing happens millions of times each day, adding to the downfall of the human race, by killing are planet.

Answer 5

Shocking isn't it?  I just read someone's post about how Global Warming must be fake because "they" had predicted starvation and it never happened.  Kind of depends on where you live, eh?

Answer 6

The part about it being caused by man is fake not the warming part.

Answer 7

its 100% true humans mite not of caused it ( i think they did) some of its natural some of its mans fault but its completely true and we need to fix this now

Answer 8

no. its real. antarctica is melting. every icy place u can think of is probably be no more in the next 50 years. i hate global warming.

Answer 9

In the last decade, over $50 billion dollars has been spent on trying to prove man caused global warming. To date, not a single one of these experiments has supported that theory.

We know the globe has been warmer in the past (1000 to about 1400),. we know the climate goes through consistent cycles. we know the little ice age ended around 1860, and the globe has been warming since. To date, the science leads us to conclude that man is not the cause of the current BENEFICIAL warming.

Answer 10

Biggest scam of the last hundred years!!!!

Answer 11

Claims that humans cause  a lot of global warming may indeed be true. That does not mean that we can stop global warming. We may not even be able to stop human caused global warming. We may have waited too long to accomplish that, and we have failed to persuade our fellow humans to stop adding to the  problem. Because we are continuing to add to the problem, because we have waited too long, we may no longer have an opportunity to stop GW.

We can still cut CO2 emissions enough to avoid having the highest temperature period, the period just before the next ice age, ever go much above what earth has previously experienced. We may still be able to avoid having human population decimated before the next ice age.

But we may not be able to avoid that decimation as the ice age follows the high temperature period.

Answer 12

global climate change isnt fake. it has been going on for 4.6 billion years. this planet as been everything from planet fireball to planet snowball. man had nothing to do with it. if we look at the geological record, we can see evidence of climate change far above and far below anything we have seen in the past 100 or so years. in fact there have been times where the temperature change was like flipping a light switch, geologically speaking. 15,000 years ago the global temperature jumped 10-15 degrees in far less time than than it has taken the planet to warm 1 degree in the last one hundred years. again, man had nothing to do with that.

it isnt global climate change that is fake, it is man made global climate change that is fake. those who believe otherwise are arrogant in thinking that man can have such a huge effect on our biosphere.

Answer 13

So human beings are destroying the planet because we have created "global warming", right? Now let me get this straight: Our planet has survived for 4.6 billion years. It has survived unimaginable planetary cataclysm after unimaginable planetary cataclysm. Entire continents being created--and completely destroyed--by massive techtonic shifts that have occured over and over. Cometary and meteor impacts that have wiped out entire ecosystems. Uncounted massive volcanic eruptions--unseen by human eyes during our short presence on this planet--that filled the atmosphere with ash from pole to pole, altering the planet's temperature and, again, destroying entire life forms and ecosystems. Ice age after ice age followed by tropical extremes that make your "global warming" look like a space heater in a sports dome. Constant and unimaginably violent change on a global scale rocking this planet for 4.6 billion years. And what 4.6 billion years of planetary cataclysms, unimaginable to the human mind, has completely failed to do--destroy the planet--is now being done by a human species that has been on this world for but the swiftest blink-of-an-eye. And where the aforementioned planetary cataclysms failed for 4.6 billion years, we are succeeding with our puny little motorcars and industrial emissions!

Is this your argument?

It's utterly mind-boggling that any thinking human being can actually believe that Man can--in ANY way--alter the natural course of this planet that lives and breathes on a scale that is totally beyond the scope of human beings to even remotely grasp!

This planet has survived unimaginable global cataclysms in its 4.6 billion year existence and will weather more for another 4.6 billion after humankind is extinct. And all the motorcars, air-conditioners, aerosol cans and smokestacks in the world will not have made a dime's worth of difference to the life-cycle of this mighty planet.  

Get a life!

Answer 14

how could it be fake??? what else wouldve caused the hole in the ozone layer?!? the only people that think its fake are idiots that know absolutely nothing about science and just say something so people dont think there stupid

Answer 15

sure does make you wonder.

clearly if you work in the coal or oil industry, you sure want to not have your job eliminated.

even if you own a restaurant near a center, you have an incentive.

some probably think the gov't is going to take their SUV away.

or make it more expensive.

or impose a $5 tax on gasoline.

some time ago, there was a very telling question.

do you believe in

1.) creationism?

2.) Intelligent design?

3.) Anthropogenic global warming?

there was an interesting, and not unexpected, correlation in the answers.

clearly there's a plethora of evidence.

on the other side, if you want support, there's junkscience, co2science, and a ton more.

i think on this, and many other topics, there are quite a number of people who decide first, then look for support for their opinion.

what i find absolutely astounding is the number of people who think that the scientists working on the problem are stupid.  that just boggles my mind.

Answer 16

Don't feel too bad.  Yahoo Answers population does not reflect the opinion of the general population, and is diametrically opposed to the vast majority of climate scientists.

The AGW theory is backed by an overwhelming body of evidence.  Some of the opposition is religious based.  There are fundamentalist organizations that put out anti-global warming propaganda.  They are the same groups that don't want evolution taught in biology class in schools.

I am not an atheist by the way.  

When people read an article in the Wall St. Journal that says  :The Science is in:  AGW is a Myth, they would assume they are reading an authoratative article on global warming.  It's completely Op Ed.  

"The conclusions reached by Robinson et al., upon which The Wall Street Journal news item was based, in my opinion and that of my class, cannot stand the scrutiny of objective peer-review. Our judgement notwithstanding, The Wall Street Journal presented an unpublished manuscript as actual science to a gullible business world. Giving support and credence to an unpublished manuscript certainly reflects poorly on The Wall Street Journal and its standards of reporting and objectivity. We know The Wall Street Journal’s science reporting cannot be trusted if they don't know the difference between opinion and science, or worse, if they do know the difference, then they're just dishonest."

http://www.reall.org/newsletter/v06/n08/...

Real scientists bring their findings to other scientist for peer review.  What they did was go to the public, through the media, in attempt to sway public opinion, of what would not have passed scientific scrutiny.

http://www.reall.org/newsletter/v06/n08/...

"Honest skeptics persist at trying to convince their colleagues of alternative conclusions, and they do it by submitting their manuscripts for publication. If they do not get published, then it is because their data, their arguments, their assumptions, and their conclusions did not stand up to careful scrutiny, not because reviewers were predisposed to a different opinion. Oh sure, some reviewers can be opinionated and have their own political ax to grind, but with persistence, you can find enough fair academics to get any legitimate conclusion published. My years as a journal editor, as a reviewer, and as an author of scientific articles validates my position that most academics will give a valid minority position a fair evaluation."

Here's the kind of scientific conferences that the skeptics hold.

"Over the past days, many of us have received invitations to a conference called "The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change" in New York. At first sight this may look like a scientific conference - especially to those who are not familiar with the activities of the Heartland Institute, a front group for the fossil fuel industry that is sponsoring the conference. You may remember them. They were the promoters of the Avery and Singer "Unstoppable" tour and purveyors of disinformation about numerous topics such as the demise of Kilimanjaro's ice cap. "

"A number of things reveal that this is no ordinary scientific meeting:"

"Normal scientific conferences have the goal of discussing ideas and data in order to advance scientific understanding. Not this one. The organisers are suprisingly open about this in their invitation letter to prospective speakers, which states:"

"The purpose of the conference is to generate international media attention to the fact that many scientists believe forecasts of rapid warming and catastrophic events are not supported by sound science, and that expensive campaigns to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are not necessary or cost-effective."

"So this conference is not aimed at understanding, it is a PR event aimed at generating media reports. (The "official" conference goals presented to the general public on their website sound rather different, though - evidently these are already part of the PR campaign.) "

"At the regular scientific conferences we attend in our field, like the AGU conferences or many smaller ones, we do not get any honorarium for speaking - if we are lucky, we get some travel expenses paid or the conference fee waived, but often not even this. We attend such conferences not for personal financial gains but because we like to discuss science with other scientists. The Heartland Institute must have realized that this is not what drives the kind of people they are trying to attract as speakers: they are offering $1,000 to those willing to give a talk. This reminds us of the American Enterprise Institute last year offering a honorarium of $10,000 for articles by scientists disputing anthropogenic climate change. So this appear to be the current market prices for calling global warming into question: $1000 for a lecture and $10,000 for a written paper."

Exxon is a main funder of both Heartland Institute and AEI or American Enterprize Institute.

" At regular scientific conferences, an independent scientific committee selects the talks. Here, the financial sponsors get to select their favorite speakers. The Heartland website is seeking sponsors and in return for the cash promises "input into the program regarding speakers and panel topics". Easier than predicting future climate is therefore to predict who some of those speakers will be. We will be surprised if they do not include the many of the usual suspects e.g. Fred Singer, Pat Michaels, Richard Lindzen, Roy Spencer, and other such luminaries. (For those interested in scientists' links to industry sponsors, use the search function on sites like sourcewatch.org or exxonsecrets.org.)

Heartland promises a free weekend at the Marriott Marquis in Manhattan, including travel costs, to all elected officials wanting to attend.

This is very nice hotel indeed. Our recommendation to those elected officials tempted by the offer: enjoy a great weekend in Manhattan at Heartland's expense and don't waste your time on tobacco-science lectures - you are highly unlikely to hear any real science there."

by Amanda Lang

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/arc...

"The global warming is a hoax believers don't

understand the difference between informed opinion, uninformed opinion, misinformed opinion and totally ignorant opinions."

from comments at gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/11/11/236...

by LeeAnnG

Answer 17

The people and organizations that push the Al Gorming scare the most are the people who stand to profit the most from it. Like the guy above me who sells solar panels to those with money and guilt.

Answer 18

Its not fake.There are lot of changes happening around due to global warming.Maybe those who think its fake must be sitting in their rooms with their air-conditioners on, so they just dont feel the heat.