If I know something is bad for the general public but still go ahead anyway, what would people call me?

Question

Carbon dioxide is bad. Vehicles produce carbon dioxide. Stop making vehicles.

Answer 1

I see what you mean by your nickname. The automobile industry is a multi-billion dollar empire that almost all of us partake in.But yet the automobile is responsible for as many deaths in the U.S. as all the wars we have fought. And to this day I don't know or have I been told of someone that smoked some weed and died. But it is illegal.

Answer 2

A commercial success.

Answer 3

Global warming is not real, so quite worrying about it and enjoy your SUV.

Truth and Science Newsletter - The Facts About Global Warming

                                                      



In the movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” by Al Gore, it states:



1.  ÃƒÂ¢Ã‚€ÂœThe vast majority of scientists agree that global warming is real.”



Actually, over 19,000 scientists, including 72 Nobel Prize winners do not agree that we are experiencing global warning, and believe this is an extreme position on the environment.

  

2.   the “Glaciers are melting, global sea levels could rise by more than 20 feet with the loss of shelf ice in Greenland and Antarctica, devastating coastal areas worldwide.”



The Greenland icecap is actually growing at the rate of 7.2 miles per year, not melting.  The East Antarctic Ice Sheet gained about 45 billion tons of ice between 1992 and 2003.  The ice sheets are several kilometers thick in places, and contain about 90% of the world's ice.  News articles have sighted glacier growth in Norway, Canada, Ecuador, Switzerland, Russia, New Zealand, the Himalayans, and 5 states in the USA.  



Global average temperature has increased 0.8 degrees F in the last century.  However, most of the temperature increase was before 1940, and most of the new carbon dioxide was added after 1960.  So are we to believe the effect came before the cause?  Actually, for the years 1998-2005 global average temperature did not increase, there was actually a slight decrease.



It's possible the government knows we are actually in Global Cooling?

Answer 4

a democrat? no guilt, no foul

Answer 5

A Republican. That seems to be their specialty.

Your subquestion leaves out part of the equation which makes it a bit more complex. May I suggest the following.

Carbon dioxide is bad. Transportation is good. Vehicles product both carbon dioxide and transportation. Change vehicles so that they stop producing carbon dioxide but still produce transportation.

Answer 6

Engineer is right.

But I would like to point out that there are many Republicans on the correct side in global warming:

"The science of global warming is clear. We know enough to act now. We must act now."

James Rogers, CEO of Charlotte-based Duke Energy.

"the evidence is sufficient that we should move towards the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon loading in the atmosphere"

Newt Gingrich, former Republican Speaker of the House

“With overwhelming scientific evidence that global warming is adversely impacting the health of our planet, the time has come for the Congress to take action.”

Senator Olympia Snowe, Republican, Maine

"The overwhelming majority of atmospheric scientists around the world and our own National Academy of Sciences are in essential agreement on the facts of global warming and the significant contribution of human activity to that trend."

Russell E. Train, Republican, former environmental official under Presidents Nixon and Ford

"I agree with you (Gore) that the debate over climate change is over."

Rep. Dennis Hastert, Republican, Illinois

"Global warming is real, now, and it must be addressed."

Lee Scott, CEO, Wal-Mart

"Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming."

Senator John McCain, Republican, Arizona

"I'm trying to learn [about greenhouse gases and global warming]. The more I learn, the bigger believer I become."

Senator Lindsay Graham, Republican, South Carolina

“DuPont believes that action is warranted, not further debate."

Charles O. Holliday, Jr., CEO, DuPont