If GW is indeed a hoax, then what is the motivation?

Question

Who's getting ahead by consuming fewer fossil fuels?

Answer 1

world domination, spread of a leftist agenda, etc.

Answer 2

Global Warming isn't a hoax, it is a natural process that is being blow out of proportion. Environmentalism has turned into a religion. Our motivations shouldn't be based out of fear, but rather on the fact that alternative fuels can be cheaper and better for us (because the emissions are disease causing) and out surrounding environment.

We need to find the balance because there are so many extremes out there.

Answer 3

Global Warming is not a hoax.

Those that say it is are like the smokers who deny there is any proof that smoking is bad for one's health.

Folks that say there is no proof are in denial for whatever reason.  

In reply to Sassy global warming is caused by increased amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.  And that comes from human activity.....  mostly wasteful activities.

Answer 4

There are thousands of scientists who would be out of government funding if global warming turned out to be false.

Isn't also convenient that all the solutions to global warming fall into the greenie lifestyle.

Answer 5

The idea that CO2 caused the warming is the hoax. The motivation is control over every aspect of everyone's lives and additional taxation (The two main goals of liberalism).

Answer 6

We as people can't stand to not have that car in the driveway well my father had one so should I. I now see the error of my ways I speak internationally and see people who drive to these things then try to tell me they are doing there part are stupid to think so there are technologies to help are the perfect no but with work and imagination they will My father is a Vertebrate Paleontologist who knows Geology and yea the earth will heal it self only after it destroys all life to start over well I have This burning desire to live and for my son to see the mountains we as a pair live in I live in Crestone CO and I'm Off the grid and Know that I have cut my need for fossil fuels and now the Govt. wants me to change 5.00 a gallon for gas and I could go 30 miles away and get it for .50 cents cheaper there motivation is the all mighty dollar to finance there war well the BUCK STOPS HERE! Google Jim Starry And see solutions to the problems not more problems

Answer 7

I think the motivation may be to get people to accept alternative energy approaches.  This will create jobs and new industries.  Maybe we need something like this in our tired ole way of life.

Answer 8

No, it's not a hoax. They've known about it for several decades. remember back when the media was talking about global cooling? That year there were far more papers published on GW than cooling. But you still hear people say 'they used to talk about global cooling, how am I supposed to believe...".

Denial of GW is the real hoax. Every one of the denialist arguments is easily refuted.

Answer 9

Tax money and fame for Chicken Little.

The insurance industry does not pay for Acts of God.  (A legal position).  Congressmen also do not write bills, and people will not pay, to delay Acts of God.  In short, a spin doctor asking for money to reverse mother nature can't fool most idiots    

On the other hand, one can imagine reversing conditions caused by man.  Even better.  Tell people the sky does not have to fall.  If you tell chickens the sky is falling they just run!

Chicken Little has figured out a way to spin the view and keep chickens working (we hope) and paying.  The cost to u.s. chickens?  According to a recent news article about $45 trillion for openers.  That's a fine pool of money in exchange for the time and cost of whipping up a movie or two and some computer graphics.  Data and the talking heads to go with it are readily available.  By the time any individual can verify the data, Chicken Little and friends are set for life.

As to fossil fuel that is another win-win for powers that be.  We have been hearing the story of running out of fossil fuels for more than 50 years.  Fifty years ago the end was just 50 years away and now, 50 years later, the end is still about 50 years away.  Setting up the donkey/carrot bit is easy when you own the donkey and the carrot.

The only cure for parasitic organisims that we are infected with is to cut back on our own diet; before we lose our own integrity.  The solution for controlling those things which prey on the human mind, for any quest or cause, is frugality.  We can survive frugality.  They cannot, for they produce nothing to begin with that hasn't been stolen from nature to start with.

Answer 10

It's not a hoax.  Ice caps are melting at a very high rate.  Weather is the most severe in the last century.  Seasons are running into each other in regions that experience them.  Animal habitats are being greatly altered.  More sea animal accidents as they are thrown off by the warm waters being so far north now.

Answer 11

sassy and areal.. and others got it right.  Sometimes exaggerations get perpetuated by government funding.  If the scientist says everything is OK, no problem here.  That is it, end of funding.  If a scientists says "OMG, we are all going to die", he gets more funding, especially if he says what the people doling out the doe want to hear.  In this way, as in natural selection, we have survival of the shrillest.

Answer 12

Big, big profits for those in on the ground floor of the scam. Who will get those profits, big oil who is funding both Al Gore and Obama. Did you not wonder how Obama all of a sudden got so much money and every one less than $100 so there is no name and address attached to the donation.

Exxon/Mobil is building plants to manufacture hydrogen fuel for use in cars and trucks. Because this hydrogen fuel will sell for the equivalent of $6 a gallon of gasoline in order to get anybody to buy the stuff and cars that will run on it gasoline has to cost more than that. Anybody get that. Global warming is a for profit scam promoted by the largest and highest profit companies in the world. They are running out of black gold and they know it, so they are trying to select what they see as the most profitable substitute for oil and the easiest to promote.

They will not go for nuclear power or space based solar which are the only practical long term solutions to the energy problem. Instead they are going to milk oil and other products they can produce and distribute like oil instead. Only one huge problem, we need about three times the electricity production we have now to make hydrogen practical. They want to burn coal to produce electricity because they control coal as well as oil. They will not go for the practical solutions until all the coal and oil are used up and then because they are afraid of space, they will turn us back to the dark ages and let millions die so they can maintain their life of gratuitous luxury!

Answer 13

Money and power. Some people just live to change what others are doing.

Answer 14

The environmentalist. Al Gore. GE. Democrats.

The motivation: money and power.

Obviously, Mr. Gore and GE stand to benefit greatly. Mr. Gore has made almost $100 million so far off his Global WARming profiteering. GE is holding huge, massive amounts of carbon credits which aren't worth anything here in America until a cap and trade system is in place.

Democrats can attack Republican energy donators such as oil, natural gas, coal, and nuclear companies. They can then boost their donars influence, the environmentalist.

It is all about money and power. You can always find someone who benefits from consuming less fossil fuels or from consuming more. Us as Americans are just caught in between the struggle. It has nothing to do with the environment or global warming, it has everything to do with money and power.

Answer 15

The politicians supporting global warming, the politicians who support a tax on carbon emissions, the automakers who produce fuel-efficient vehicles, the businesses who use less pollution, Al Gore and his movie, the writers of pro-global warming is caused by man books, the media, etc.

Who loses?  Society.

The media know what's hot (no pun intended).  Now that global warming has caught on, it's snowballing just like "global cooling" did in the 1970's.  So all the businesses and politicians and so on are cashing in the gold they're making from all the worried Americans going out and buying hybrid cars and compact flourescent lightbulbs (which are actually WORSE for the environment...).

Now, don't get me wrong:  all the cleaning up America is doing is a good thing.  I'm glad there are more caps on pollution and so on.  But man-made global warming has no factual evidence yet, and until it does, it'd be best if Americans stop panicking about the "end of the world!!"

Edit:  Also, don't get me wrong on this:  there IS global warming.  That much is completely irrefutable.  But there's no evidence to support MAN MADE global warming.  I keep bringing that up for a reason.