The debate is over?

Question

Al Gore proposes that we can somehow stop global warming.

Global warming, and global cooling, are caused by normal fluctuations in the sun's temperature. When the temperature of the sun goes up, more greenhouse gases on earth are released, and the earth experiences a period of global warming. When the temperature of the sun goes down, less greenhouse gases on earth are released, and the earth experiences a period of global cooling. Each warming or cooling period lasts for a couple decades. This cycle has been occuring since the dawn of time.

So, my question is: how does Al Gore propose to stop the sun?

Recently, the United Nations released a report given by their own Climatologists and Meteorologists, who have concluded that there has not been a warming trend in the data since 1998. That's right, global warming stopped 10 years ago!

The global warming bandwagon has become like a religion. Just watch some of the angry responses to my question, and you will see what I mean.

Answer 1

O no! another god has fallen,,al gore

Answer 2

"The debate is over"......LOL

Sounds alot like "Mission Accomplished"

How does the sun, being sooo far away release greenhouse gasses on earth??

You made me laugh so hard i think i greenhouse gassed in my pants!!

BTW, you cant stop it, we can only slow it down. Its a cycle, we are just changing it.

Answer 3

religion? as in blind faith, the one true way, that sort of thing? i think that applies rather better to the oil men and their pet politicians.....

Answer 4

Global Warming will never be dealt with because it is LONG TERM.

And democracy doesn't care about long term goals.

Only a King (monarchy) or a dictator can think long term.

Answer 5

I belive that global warming is a natural cycle, but if the global warming debate is over, like many Al Gore enthusiasts claim, then what is another word for debate because I still hear debating.

Answer 6

He's going to blot out the sun with all those lost chad's.

Answer 7

XD You were right! They ARE angry.

Well, if it happens every few decades, then its never really STOPPED, just PAUSED. And if it IS due to the sun, well I guess we're all screwed. YAAAYYY :P

Answer 8

Scientist are all Atheist, and do not know truth if it hit them in their faces. To bad you science lovers, I have the right to think and to say this because, I live in Texas and this past year it was cooler than all the years I lived in this state. So put it in your pipe and smoke!!!! And I 'll see you when the smoke clears? Anna

Answer 9

The key to the debate is the addition or exclusion of the words "man-made" to the terms "global warming," "global cooling" and "climate change."

There are basically no credible climatologists who will argue tha the Earth does not undergo regular climate change. It has done so on this planet since the rocks first cooled billions of years ago. Even in recent millenia the evidence for regular climate change is overwhelming and it has caused significant changes in human development and even our evolution.

The problem occurs when people with a political agenda added the words "man-made" to the phrase and then claimed the backing of all those scientists. In the 1800's, Europeans blamed the growth of cities and industry for the "mini-Ice Ages" that occured in fairly regular 12-year periods. They blamed the same sources for the periodic warming trends.

This pattern has continued to the modern day. In the 1970's there were "scientists" predicting a new Ice Age that would have had New York City locked in a glacier by 2000.

The anti-American crowd attempted to force the economy-strangling Kyoto Accords on the US in the 1980's during the transitional warming period. As things grew warmer they began arguing that US economic development was solely responsible for the change in climate and that the US had to throttle its industrial capacity and lower its citizens' lifestyle. Fortunately, Democratic party president Bill Clinton refused to play along and did not sign the Accords. Interestingly neither did several other countries, most notably Communist China. Many European nations did sign and are suffering for it dramatically. Most are learning how to ignore it now.

Following the Democratic defeats in the 1990's (and the failure of the glaciers to appear) the "man-made global warming" crowd and Al Gore came to the fore. Gore is still bitter over his perception that the "vast right-wing conspiracy" foiled his quest for the US presidency. Amazingly, the Democratic party and several of the "greens" played a role in his defeat as well.

The political moves to classify all climate change as "man-made" went into full-swing during Bush's second term and as the brief warming cycle of the time was drawing to a close. The popular media and a variety of anti-American groups had to acknowledge that the warming trend was ending, the predicted massive hurricanes did not occur, the models that had been used were in error.

The same group have now modified their models and theories to fit the failures of their previous ones. Unfortunately, many of their theories, such as man-made carbon dioxide being the sole cause of a pheneomena that can only lead to global warming, don't transfer well. The "carbon credit" business is booming, however, and many are getting quite rich so they now have to support the concept that man-made carbon emissions may or may not have much to do with the change in climate ... BUT ... and this is great .... at least we are doing something.

In the end the argument hinges on the political desire of some to control the economic activity of others. Whether it is Third World nations seeking to hobble the larger nations' industries to even the playing field; the anti-US crowd worldwide that seeks to attack America in any capacity whatsoever; the anti-Bush crowd that seeks to target George W. Bush as the ultimate vessel of evil; the carbon credit profiteers such as Al Gore and others who are making billions off of the movement - Not matter who it is the overwhelming motivation is a political one and not a scientific one.

Answer 10

This rather pointless"debate" will probably continue ad nauseam among the illiterati, but the plain facts are that, regardless of who or what you think is the cause, the ice caps are melting far more swiftly than even Al Gore predicted. It is happening. Selective reporting of obscure UN documents and attempting to deny it like King Canute will not stop it, and neither will arguing about it.

We have to adapt the best way we can. Get used to it.

Answer 11

It's still not an excuse to be wasteful.  People should care to be good stewards of the earth and to leave it for future generations, not just for selfish means of "my Miami condo will get flooded if I don't drive a prius!"

Answer 12

"Global Warming" and "Climate Change" are fronts for the liberal socialists agenda to spread the wealth around the world.

Answer 13

I'm not angry.  All people have to do is look at the real science, not get it from Rush Limbaugh.

There's PROOF that the Sun is not causing global warming.

"Recent oppositely directed trends in solar

climate forcings and the global mean surface

air temperature", Lockwood and Frolich (2007), Proc. R. Soc. A

doi:10.1098/rspa.2007.1880

http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/media/pro...

News article at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6290228.st...

And the idea that "warming stopped in 1998" is laughable.  DATA:

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2007/

discussed in detail, with confirmation, at:

http://tamino.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/g...

The idea that this is a "socialist" plot also falls victim to facts:

"Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich challenged fellow conservatives to stop resisting scientific evidence of global warming"

"National Review (the most prestigious conservative magazine) published a cover story calling on conservatives to shake off denial and get into the climate policy debate"

Answer 14

The debate continue, it just shifts.  The main goal of the oil company pioneered propaganda is to give politicians an excuse for not taking action.

Answer 15

If somebody was paying me a lot of money and I was of low intelligence and/or low moral character I would say what the muddled masses wanted to hear as well and claim to have all the answers. None of those things are happening so I will instead continue to speak the truth on this subject, so far my opinion is not for sale.

Answer 16

"Recently, the United Nations released a report given by their own Climatologists and Meteorologists, who have concluded that there has not been a warming trend in the data since 1998"

Utter fiction.

Answer 17

Your question is fundamentally flawed because it makes an incorrect assumption.  The current global warming is not caused by the Sun, and no scientist has proposed otherwise.  See my wiki article here for an explanation and scientific data:

http://greenhome.huddler.com/wiki/global...

You are also incorrect in your claim that global warming stopped 10 years ago (and that the UN made this claim).  All you need to do is look at the data to know that's wrong:

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs...

So the answer to your question as to why scientists (I don't care about Al Gore) propose we can stop global warming is that it's primarily (80-90%) being caused by human greenhouse gas emissions, which we control.

Also, if you think that both the Sun caused global warming and the planet hasn't warmed in 10 years, you're contradicting yourself, as explained here:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

Answer 18

We have now had 10 years of cooler or stable temperatures

http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Mon...

These measurements come from the official organisations that monitor global temperature, not GW sceptics or oil industry people, so they cannot just be dismissed.

The graph in the article shows that 1999 and 2000 were cooling years, 2000 to 2006 were stable, and 2007 another cooling year. This has happened despite a continuing rise in carbon dioxide, and indicates that its role in our atmosphere has been substantially exaggerated. It is a factor, but only one in many.

When I visited Antarctica a couple of years ago, the scientists working there told me that the main land mass was getting colder, and the only part of the continent loosing ice was the peninsular, and that was because of sea currents.

The western part of the Arctic ( Above Alaska and Canada) is melting, but the eastern part (above Europe and Russia) is getting colder and gaining ice. This is all part of the normal variability of our climate.

Rather than the warming being much greater than expected, as Al Gore says, it is in reality, much less, but he does have his carbon offset business to protect

Answer 19

Al Gore has publicly stated that we can, with his leadership, stop global warming. Scientist who study such things have concluded that since the beginning of the use of combustion engines to date the emissions represent less that 1% of the total green house gasses causing global warming. The volcano which errupted in the Philippines emmitted more greenhouse gasses than that less than the 1% of polution in a matter of hours. Al Gore should then apply his skills to controlling such natural events first would'nt you think? I do think that we should find a cleaner energy source and also a source which would break our dependance on mideastern oil. However to your point, cyclical climate changes are a fact whether the greenies believe it or not. One only has to reference the last ice age to determine that. I was a witness in a death penalty case and the defense attorney was an older very experienced man with the highest credintials along with being a friend of mine. . He gave an outstanding closing arguement, an emotional plea that brought tears to some of the jurors eyes but a total misrepresentation of fact. The jury didn't buy it though. After the trial I was talking to him and I asked him where he had come up with that closing arguement and related to him how good I though he had been. He said to me ," my friend that closing arguement come right out of a bottle of Johnny Walker Red." The global warming zealots may have a similar stratiegy.

Answer 20

The debate will never be over as long as they can say "well it might happen". The global warming nuts have shifted the argument to " we MIGHT have some effect". They changed one word and the phony CRISIS will continue.

As long as there are people like these the "chicken little" cry will echo across the world.