My friend says the global warming is overstate Based on the cold winter we have had in Canada-True or false?

Question

My friend says that Al gore is full of it............that global

warming is a farce-------Is she in denial or is the topic of

global warming over-stated?

Answer 1

True

Answer 2

"As long as the earth endures,

seedtime and harvest,

cold and heat,

summer and winter,

day and night

will never cease."

-Genesis 8:22

Subject: Hundreds of scientists reject global warming



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Friday, December 21, 2007

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HEAT OF THE MOMENT

Hundreds of scientists reject global warming

Basing policy on carbon dioxide levels 'potentially disastrous economic folly'

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Posted: December 21, 2007

1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Bob Unruh

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© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

A new U.S. Senate report documents hundreds of prominent scientists – experts in dozens of fields of study worldwide – who say global warming and cooling is a cycle of nature and cannot legitimately be connected to man's activities.

"Of course I believe in global warming, and in global cooling – all part of the natural climate changes that the Earth has experienced for billions of years, caused primarily by the cyclical variations in solar output," said research physicist John W. Brosnahan, who develops remote-sensing instruments for atmospheric science for clients including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA.

However, he said, "I have not seen any sort of definitive, scientific link to man-made carbon dioxide as the root cause of the current global warming, only incomplete computer models that suggest that this might be the case.

"Even though these computer climate models do not properly handle a number of important factors, including the role of precipitation as a temperature regulator, they are being (mis-)used to force a political agenda upon the U.S.," he continued. "While there are any number of reasons to reduce carbon dioxide generation, to base any major fiscal policy on the role of carbon dioxide in climate change would be inappropriate and imprudent at best and potentially disastrous economic folly at the worst."

The report compiled observations from more than 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen nations who have voiced objections to the so-called "consensus" on "man-made global warming."

Many of the scientists are current or former participants in the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose present officials, along with former Vice President Al Gore, have asserted a definite connection.

The new report comes from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee's office of the GOP ranking member, and cites the hundreds of opinions issued just in 2007 that global warming and man's activities are unrelated.

"Even some in the establishment media now appear to be taking notice of the growing number of skeptical scientists," the introduction to the Senate report said. "In October, the Washington Post Staff Writer Juliet Eilperin conceded the obvious, writing that climate skeptics 'appear to be expanding rather than shrinking.'"

"Many scientists from around the world have dubbed 2007 as the year man-made global warming fears 'bite the dust,'" the introduction said.

And there probably would be many more scientists making such statements, were it not for the fear of retaliation from those aboard the global-warming-is-caused-by-SUVs bandwagon, the report said.

"Many of my colleagues with whom I spoke share these views and report on their inability to publish their skepticism in the scientific or public media," noted Nathan Paldor, professor of Dynamical Meteorology and Physical Oceanography at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

He's authored almost 70 peer-reviewed studies, and said, "First, temperature changes, as well as rates of temperature changes (both increase and decrease) of magnitudes similar to that reported by IPCC to have occurred since the Industrial revolution (about 0.8C in 150 years or even 0.4C in the last 35 years) have occurred in Earth's climatic history. There's nothing special about the recent rise!"

At an earlier hearing, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., had confronted Stephen Johnson, administrator of the EPA, about a threatening e-mail from a group that includes the EPA. That e-mail from the American Council on Renewable Energy was addressed to Marlo Lewis, of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and said, "It is my intention to destroy your career as a liar. If you produce one more editorial against climate change, I will launch a campaign against your professional integrity. I will call you a liar and charlatan to the Harvard community of which you and I are members. I will call you out as a man who has been bought by Corporate America. Go ahead, guy. Take me on."

It was signed Michael T. Eckhart, president of ACORE.

The scientists cited in the new study hail from Germany, Brazil, the Netherlands, New Zealand, France, Russia and the United States, and defied the idea, being carried forward by various political and environmental agendas, that man's activities are endangering the future of the Earth through contributions to a rise in temperatures.

Paleoclimatologist Tim Patterson, professor in the department of Earth sciences at Carleton University in Ottawa, recently converted from a believer in man-made climate change to a skeptic. Patterson noted that the notion of a "consensus" of scientists aligned with the UN IPCC or former Vice President Al Gore is false.

"I was at the Geological Society of America meeting in Philadelphia in the fall and I would say that people with my opinion were probably in the majority," he said.

The report was generated after UN IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri implied there were only "about half a dozen" skeptical scientists left in the world.

Former Vice President Gore, of course, has likened skeptics of the global-warming philosophy to "flat Earth society members."

But the Senate report noted the scientists who are expressing a dissatisfaction with such generalizations include experts in climatology, geology, oceanography, biology, glaciology, biogeography, meteorology, economics, chemistry, mathematics, environmental sciences, engineering, physics and paleoclimatology.

"Some of those profiled have won Nobel Prizes for their outstanding contribution to their field of expertise and many shared a portion of the UN IPCC Nobel Peace Price with Vice President Gore," the report said.

Besides the Nobel Gore shared over the issue of global warming, he also won an Oscar for his work on "An Inconvenient Truth," which proclaims the validity of man-made global warming and advocates urgent action.

Al Gore stars in 'An Inconvenient Truth'

However, Muriel Newman, director of the New Zealand Centre for Political Research, has told Academy President Sid Ganis and Executive Director Bruce Davis that honor should be withdrawn.

That's because British High Court judge Michael Burton has concluded Gore's documentary should be shown in British schools only with guidance notes to prevent political indoctrination. The decision followed a lawsuit by a father, Stewart Dimmock, who claimed the film contained "serious scientific inaccuracies, political propaganda and sentimental mush."

The Nobel panel honored Gore and the IPCC for their efforts to spread awareness of "man-made climate change."

But the British court pointed to 11 inaccuracies in the production:

"The truth, as inconvenient as it is to Al Gore, is that his so-called documentary contained critical distortions that are quite contrary to the principles of good documentary journalism," Newman said. "Good documentaries should be factually correct. Clearly this documentary is not."

The court ruled the Guidance Notes to Teachers must make clear that:

The film is a political work and promotes only one side of the argument.

If teachers present the film without making this plain they may be in breach of section 406 of the Education Act 1996 and guilty of political indoctrination.

Eleven inaccuracies have to be specifically drawn to the attention of school children.

The inaccuracies, according to the court, include:

The film claims that melting snows on Mount Kilimanjaro evidence global warming. The Government's expert was forced to concede that this is not correct.

The film suggests that evidence from ice cores proves that rising CO2 causes temperature increases over 650,000 years. The court found that the film was misleading: Over that period the rises in CO2 lagged behind the temperature rises by 800-2000 years.

The film uses emotive images of Hurricane Katrina and suggests that this has been caused by global warming. The Government's expert had to accept that it was "not possible" to attribute one-off events to global warming.

The film shows the drying up of Lake Chad and claims that this was caused by global warming. The Government's expert had to accept that this was not the case.

The film claims that a study showed that polar bears had drowned due to disappearing arctic ice. It turned out that Mr. Gore had misread the study: In fact four polar bears drowned, and this was because of a particularly violent storm.

And others.

The new study includes opinions from scientists at Harvard, NASA, NOAA, NCAR, Massachusetts Ins

Answer 3

"Global Warming" is more of a catch phrase than it is anything right now.  The real thing is "Global Climate Change."  The average temperature of the Earth has fluctuated by many degrees throughout its history.

The thing we need to be concerned with is the fact that human beings ourselves, our infrastructure and technology are very sensitive to extremes of climate.  We very much need our climate to be mild.  We are changing our climate by pumping gases like Carbon Dioxide and Methane into the atmosphere in unnatural amounts.  It is a fact that these gases help retain the Sun's rays on Earth.  It is a fact that glaciers are melting at an alarming rate.  It is a fact that more Ocean area will also help to retain warmth on the planet.

This planet is becoming a warmer place and we, human beings, are contributing to it.  It's not a hoax.  Is it as bad as some are saying?  No.  But it is something we need to do something about as soon as possible.

Answer 4

True AND false.

Global warming is over stated in many cases, so true.

The reason has nothing to do with the cold winter you have in Canada, so false.

Answer 5

We have Global Cooling in the last 12 months. Read my article which contains a Canadian source.

Answer 6

some of the stuff in the media is overstated. i remember seeing a report saying that if the world heats up by 6 degrees C there will be methane fireballs racing across the sky. they are just trying to s*x it up.

but the inconvent truth is fairly accurate. there were a few errors in it but noting major they were mostly relating to some of the examples he gave. eg hurricanes Kilimanjaro.

Answer 7

Global Warming is a giant hoax!!!

Answer 8

Oregon is over 140% of it`s normal snow pack. global warming is over. It`s time to start talking about the coming ice age

Answer 9

I agree with your friend.  And I have a question: If Al Gore is so concerned about energy conservation, why does he have a mansion that reportedly uses $2,000 worth of utilities a month?

Answer 10

True. It's a scam put on by the alternative power companies. Why hasn't anything been in the news about the ozone hole over Antarctica? Because.....gasp.....it's BACK TO NORMAL !

Answer 11

It's interesting that they have changed the terminology from global warming to climate change. Now they can attribute any negative weather to dirty evil human beings. Wait, they've been doing that all along. I guess changing the name is just sort of a license to do so. Wake up people, arise to truth.

Answer 12

Here are some links that debunk the theories of those who deny AGW.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_peti...   dispells the myth about 17,000 scientists who are skeptics on AGW

http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics    similar

http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfact...

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

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Ima...

http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report....

http://www.wor ldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_p...

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

http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/f101.a...

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/sci...

Answer 13

that's because people are under the misconception that global warming means that the world is going to heat up. it's not really just about warming up. it's about certain parts of the world getting warmer, some parts getting colder, more rain for some areas, more droughts for others, etc...take for instance, the snow in China this winter. it's not supposed to snow in that part of the world!! now that's also global warming...

it's about the weather changing, getting more extreme. not just warming up.