What made you realize global warming was a scam?

Question

What made you realize global warming was a scam?

Answer 1

I realized that all of the celebrity “deniers” were full of hot air when I learned that they were all receiving money from ExxonMobil.

Answer 2

not rocket science,caught the bullshit from day one !

Answer 3

GW is what it is. For me, a way of life to help earth be a better place. Even w/o GW we have a problem because oil product around the world is in decline, as with natural gas, coal, and tar sands. Russia has claimed the oil in the north sea, the cost they say is $125 per barrel. The USA has chosen to feed its fuel demands over feeding the starving people of the world that we always have done. Today here is what we know:  many of mankind’s advancements cause earth surface to warm, destroy the ozone layer, kill off endanger species, heat cities, and in some way cause more destruction.  Blacktop (roads and parking lots), buildings, air pollution (causes lung and other diseases), deforestation, duststorms (which increase hurricanes and cyclones and cause lung diseases), fires (cause pollution, mud slides, and deforestation), refrigerants (like CFC's), solvents (including benzene destroy the ozone layer raising skin cancer rates) and plastics; cars, airplanes, ships and most electricity production (causes pollution including raised CO2 levels) are human problems we need to fix to keep life on earth sustainable! That is why I founded CoolingEarth.org, a geoengineering web sight. The federal government needs to adopt a pollution surcharge to balance the field and advance new technologies. We must pay the real price of oil (petrochemicals) including global warming, cleanup and for health effects. But with that we must understand we have never seen what is now happening before. CO2 has never lead to temperature change, but temperature change has led to increases in CO2. The models have to be made as we go along with little evidence! The result is:  change is on the way, we just do not know what changes. But again adding a small amount of CO2 to the atmosphere enlarges the earths sun collection causing warming; increase water in the atmosphere and they form clouds cooling earth but causing flooding. Even natural events are warming earth and causing destruction. The sun has an increased magnetic field causing increases in earthquakes (more destruction), volcanoes (wow, great destruction), and sun spots. Lighting produces ozone near the surface (raising air pollution levels). But humans have destroyed half of the wetlands, cut down nearly half of the rain forest, and advance on the earths grasslands while advancing desertification which increases duststorms. The USA Mayor's have taken a stand and I believe are on the right track, we can have control and can have economic growth. With the peak of oil in the 1970’s, the peak of ocean fishing in the 1980’s, humans must stop procrastinating and make real changes to keep earth sustainable including in the energy debate, finance and regulation. The sun is available to produce energy, bring light to buildings and makes most of human’s fresh water. Composting is the answer to desertification. New dams are the answer to fresh water storage, energy and cooling earth by evaporation, we need many small one all over (California needs 100 by 2012 and has not even started).

President Bush has made a choice of energy (ethanol) over food and feeding the starving people around the world; this is a choice China has rejected.

Answer 4

I watched Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth.

Answer 5

I never thought it was a scam the earth has always been warming and cooling.

Answer 6

Watching Inconvenient Truth.

They didn't have enough data to support their little theory, so they resorted to spewing so many lies in that movie.

Answer 7

Gore proves it is a scam every time he opens his mouth.

Answer 8

Global warming isn't a scam, and nobody with any credibility says otherwise.  It's a fact that the mean temperature of the earth has risen significantly over the past 150 years.

The question is, if the rise is due to a natural phenomenon or if it's man made.

I'm still not convinced it's not man made.  But no one can tell us for sure.

Answer 9

Yeah! I realized that GW was piece of c**p in the 11th grade when i took my first astronomy class.Then it was confirmed when I took my second and third astronomy class in college. It is all about the money! But there are some things that are true, like we are making to much waste and not recycling enough

Answer 10

Science.

Answer 11

When GE began the green campaign along with NIKE and NBC..I figured, scare tactics..why else would corporations jump on that bandwagon if not to make money off of consumers who think they are doing a good thing for the world. I conserve because of costs to my electric bill, gas and water. That is to save money and if some think it helps the environment.. than Kudos to that too.

Answer 12

I feel so dumb I thought it was real.If it is fake then what am I conserving for .Oh man Ive been freezing my butt off for nothing.What an idiot I am .

Answer 13

All the big government types are all for it!  Think about it, the United Nations would love to get their hands on a little more money in the form of a carbon tax.  It's not really about the environment, it's about the money.

Answer 14

several things really, one was the fact they show only one side on the tv and news papers and magezines, global warming is man made and will lead shortly to disaster if we don't reduce co2. and they say there is no question man is to blame, right there that turned me right off, all science is questionable, not unless your God himself.

another factor was listening to other scientists who seem more plausible simply because they discuss it more rationally, less emotionally, and give you facts and figures that can be verified and proven. they show verifiable history, they show what history has shown, they basically show it all with calm and without tyring to scare the h*ll out of you.

thirdly, the money, as soon as they started to discuss money, taxaing necessities of life, that right there made me suspicious, especially when it was pointed out how much we use co2 products for farming, heating, cooling, filtering and cleaning water,  getting to the doctor, running hospitals, making medicines,  and how this tax will raise the cost of living 5 fold or more.

then when I realize they want to give it ot the un, I thought there will be no end to the increase of the taxes once they get their foot in the door. look at taxing other things, where in life is not taxed? your home, transport, wages, non food products, permits for this and that, I mean it is endless. license fees, taxes to drive, taxes to buy the fuel you need let alone paying more taxes for some nonissue like global warming. what if the temps still keep climbing? what then? increase in those taxes after all the working poor are homeless, then the lower middle class is homeless? thus increase in the cost of food and medicines, forcing many smaller business out of business letting big corporations who are almost tax free just move in a take over?

when will the taxation be stopped or reversed? once we cool down? then what. will they remove the taxes then? when have they ever removed taxes once implemented? never.

RRRRR

Answer 15

I was arguing in favor of it, and a friend of mine informed me of the hockey stick controversy. When I looked into that, I began to doubt. That was before I learned that many other planets in our solar system are also warming. When that news came in, I felt, and still feel real confident, that it's junk 'feel good' science.

Answer 16

It's a fact that the mean temperature of the earth has risen significantly over the past 150 years.

How much a "whopping" half degree!!! SCARY!!! very "significant" LMAO.

Now there's a bridge in Brooklynvery reasonably priced and I'll even toss in some carbon credits...

Answer 17

From studies I've done related to health which ultimately pointed to Sunlight. Doctors tell you to 'stay out of the Sun or put on protection' - which is the opposite of the know fact = "There is NO LIFE WITHOUT THE SUN".  This staying out of the Sun makes doctors RICH!

Studying Sunlight makes you realize the power and the many other emissions of the Sun.  When Alarmists claim the unchanging luminescence is the only emission from the Sun - they are only showing their ignorance.  UV emissions may be the most important and valuable factor of our health = Vitamin D.

http://www.spaceweather.com/

Answer 18

It is? Who said so? I really thought it was real...

Answer 19

Because many of the same treehuggers  have been pulling the same type environmental type lies for 40 years.

Plus these are the many of the same radical treehuggers that were doing the bidding's of the soviets disinformation campaigns in the 50s 60s 70s 80s and 90s

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/artic...

And i believe that global warming is a Russia disinformation campaign that went into affect after the Russians lost the cold war

This was when the Russians came to the conclusion that they could never win against the industrial and science base of the US.

The only way then to win was to destroy the industrial and scientific base of the US by a program of disinformation called global warming

Why is it that Russia is NOT being singled out as one of the global warming causing countries.

Russia is a large industrial country.

Could it be that they are the ones behind the global warming scam

Answer 20

Your fantastic source of information and also your qualifications helped to persuade me. But what really turned my views around was your question, it really made me think on another dimension and I realise that myself and 1000's of scientists not to mention 90% of the western world and 70% of China and India are all wrong.

    Gosh, thanks for clearing that up. It was a great question and has really gone a long way to open up this debate. The way you handle the cut and thrust of a disscussion is quite challenging. I will certainly look forward to trying to test my mental powers against another of your questions in the future. I just hope that I am up to the task.

  The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

*edit* just to clarify my point because my sarcasm may have gone over your head. I  do not think that global warming is a scam.

Also I feel the the guy, I think 2 below me, 'Rick' really needs to  check out his facts. Keeping out of the sun and using 'protection' is a scam by doctors to make money?? LOL, I really hope that is a joke. If not then you should come to New Zealand and do some sun bathing mate...its great to lie on the beach for hours and hours with no sun cream and just soak up those rays, you can just feel all that sunlight doing you good. Also maybe 'Rick " could edit his answer because I would love to know how doctors get rich from telling you to stay out of the sun. Do they rent shade or make sun cream?

  

This is really amazing for me to study the level of questions and answers of people that dont believe in global warming. It is hilarious.

Answer 21

It's not. Please, read a science book.

Answer 22

the current temperature here is 5 degrees

Answer 23

When I realized that their "proof" is two things (temperature rising and CO2 increases) happening at the same time.  Any statistician will tell you, a positive correlation is not proof of cause and effect.

Answer 24

I find it very hard to believe that global warming is a scam. I guess it's a matter of opinion.

Answer 25

Nothing.

I believe it's real.

Answer 26

Speaker of the truth.. what made YOU realise global warming is a scam?  Really, it really does enrage me how people without the specific enducation think they can make a few seaches on google and think they know it all.

Listen too the experts people.  The IPCC fourth annual assessment is written by hundreds of the top climate scientists in the world, including Dr David Vaughan whom I have been lucky enough to have meet.

Answer 27

When al gore joined a venture capitalist firm that will undoubtedly sell us carbon offsets or trees making him very very rich. also because al gore will not debate global warming.

Answer 28

the fact the 95 % of the world believe it convinced me that it is BS.

  I love being in the ignorant and uneducated minority.