The Climate Catastrophe has been canceled. Can we relax now? ?

Question

Sometimes it isn't easy to give up a cherished belief system. However; paying global taxes, paying for carbon credits, giving up air conditioning, abundant food, as well as the privacy of traveling in our own automobiles, is just too doggone much for the rest of us to have to pay in order to indulge a group of liberal politicians and pop-culture types in a solution to a non-existent problem. (Yup, that was a "run-on" sentence, but I liked it.) Since this issue is vital to our future; please invest 10 minutes of your life in this video. Thanks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uC4mwiRPks

Answer 1

Oh, really? Chew on this:

1. The fancy computer models that predict all of the disastrous climate changes don't take into account the variations in the sun's activity (because it doesn't fit the desired result) or the effect of clouds on greenhouse warming (because scientists haven't decided whether the effects of clouds aids warming or prevents it by reflecting solar radiation).

2. Whenever somebody (like the brilliant climatologist AlGore) proclaims "the science is in...no more debate"...I immediately get suspicious.

3. If AlGore really believed his own c**p, why doesn't he "walk the talk?" He should be living in a tent, riding a bike, etc. But no, his house sucks up electricity at 20 times the rate of the avg home. Not to mention the boats, private jets, etc. etc. And don't tell me he bought carbon offsets to make up for it...everyone knows that's garbage. So I guess he feels that it's ok to have a huge "carbon footprint" (God I hate that term...it's so Orwellian) as long as you are rich enough to afford the credits?

4. Why are the other planets in our solar system also experiencing rising temperatures, reduction in polar ice (where applicable)? Are evil conservatives driving Hummers up there, too? Gosh!

The man-made climate change crisis is just a pallatable (to the gullible) political tool for socialists and communists to further their agendas of wealth redistribution (meaning the evil America must pay for s******g up the planet) and to try to knock America "down to size."

Evidence shows that rises in atmospheric CO2 FOLLOW rises in temperature, not CAUSE it. The climate has ALWAYS "changed" - people don't cause it, and they can't do anything about it.

We all want a clean environment, but this is ridiculous, and everybody knows it. But only a few of us have the guts to say that this emperor isn't wearing any clothes (look it up).

Answer 2

Nope.

This is just the musings of a few "skeptics", not proof of anything.

EVERY major scientific organization has issued an official statement that global warming is real, and mostly caused by us.  They're well aware of these "skeptics" arguments and they're not buying.

This is hardly a creation of "liberal" politicians and pop culture people.  It's scientific fact.

Answer 3

I haven't watched part 2 or 3, but those views are definitely prevalent in the scientific literature and there is plenty of data supporting natural variations in climate.  However, the literature suggests that natural variation cannot fully explain the current change to our climate.  Instead, only when we combine natural external forcings (mainly the sun) with anthropogenic activities (mainly GHG emissions) can we accurately account for recent climate change.

I consider this far from the climate crisis being solved.  Even the scientists in the video did not say the climate crisis is solved.  Natural variation and forcings, for sure, play a role in our current climate change, but so does human activity.  Ignoring the latter is ignorant (just as ignorant as ignoring the former) and it will only make the problem harder to solve.

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Edit: some models do account for solar activity (click link 1 below).  Others consider cloud coverage (click the bottom 3 links below).  Humans are definitely contributing to the rise in CO2 in the atmosphere (link 5).

Answer 4

Global warming is real. Do the research and you will be enlightened.

Answer 5

No, if you relax you will either freeze to death or be crushed by a glacier in the up coming ice age. The weather on this planet sucks some people are just to dense to grasp and accept the facts.