Why are you so sure global warming is a hoax?

Question

Convince me.....

Answer 1

Because rush limbaugh says it is and he is a highschool graduate.

Answer 2

You have to believe that a naturally occurring chemical compound that makes up .04% of the Earth atmosphere is the cause of man made global warming. The same naturally occurring chemical compound that has existed in vast higher quantities in the Earth's atmosphere in other point if the Earth's history.

To believe in man made global warming, you have to completely write of the fact that the Earth has gone into four or five Ice Ages and WARMED out of them four or five times without out man's influence. Or you have to convince yourself that this time is different. And man is making it warmer by driving cars.

You also have to put stock in the fact that many parts of the world could not accurately tell you what the temperature of the Earth was 50 years ago, let alone 100 or 200 years ago. We do not have a long enough nor accurate data set on what the Earth's temperature really is now.

On top of that, not only do we not know what the temps were from around the globe 200 years, no one has told us what the Earth's ideal temperature is suppose to be. Is it suppose to be an average of 52 degrees? 58 degrees? 65? 47? We don't know.

Global warming may be happening. It wouldn't surprise me one bit. Earth has been much hotter in the past than it is today.

But, to flat out blame it on man? To tell me that man is causing the temperature to rise and that in 100 years it will be X degrees if we don't do something now? They can't tell me whether it will rain on July 21 or not.

Answer 3

Cos its really, really, really cold today.

Answer 4

Wow, what impressive answers, demonstrating the hoax.

Answer 5

Global "Warming"  doesn't mean that the earth is warming up... Its titled Global "Warming" to scare us into action...

The true title should be Global "Climate Change" m Because they are reffering to the constant and fast change in the Climate (Warm and Cold) . the fast Climate changes cause natural disasters to form. like Huricanes, Tornadoes, etc.

Answer 6

It's not.

Answer 7

There may or may not be "climate change".   Until recently there was "global warming".   Then some data was developed that might suggest a slight cooling trend, so the words "climate change" began to be used "just in case".  

Regardless, there is great scientific debate about  whether these changes (if any) are anthropogenic (man-made), or naturally-occurring cycles.   As recently as the '70's, it was thought by science that we were on the verge of a great global cooling.  

The ice caps on Mars are melting, and there are no Hummers there.    Finally, I think that if everyone thought global warming was actually man-made, Al Gore wouldn't live in his own version of the Taj Mahal, sucking up enough electricity for an apartment building, or flying around in jets spewing carbon into the atmosphere.    Or is he only a hypocrite?

Answer 8

See:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

There is no discernable influence of mankind at this scale.  The very noisy cycles look about the same.

People see patterns in random data, and the conformity experiments of the psychologist Asch showed people would knowingly give wrong answers to avoid nonconformity.

See:

http://www.grida.no/climate/vital/13.htm

Mankind's contribution to atmospheric CO2 is dwarfed by just the uncertainties in deep water reservoir estimates - 2,000 billions of tonnes of uncertainity versus 5.5 billions of tonnes of emissions.

Thermal Conductivity of the Elements: A Comprehensive Review, supplement no. 1, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 3 (1974), I-244.

A very interesting graph which I cannot locate on the web.  A straightforward experiment for one element.  Over 200 HUNDRED peer-reviewed papers report values that are completely different from one another.  Not a little, a lot.

I see you are a top contributor and obviously your mind is made up about this issue and nothing will shake your convictions.

What I want you to consider is if you have been caught up in sort of an "Asch" conformity exercise, for real.

Over the past ten years temperatures have cooled, and CO2 has risen.  Are you able to acknowledge there is no correlation between the two for this time period?

Answer 9

iwangame,  yes science does show several ice ages and warming periods in between. But those warming periods last only 10,000 years and the last one was peaked over 1,000 years ago (remember your world history course - the Vikings explored Greenland and called it that because it was green, they farmed on it.  Now its all ice).  And since then the earth has been cooling, getting ready for another ice age.  Yes during the last 1000 years there have been warm spells, but a chart would show a general steady decline in temperature EXCEPT, since the industrial revolution started (human pollution).  Since then, the temperature has warmed up, faster than any previous "natural" warm period.

Answer 10

i dont think its a hoax, the planet always goes through changes, and i beleive the climate will change. i dunno if its going to be as bad as  they say but i guess well see

Answer 11

Because it can Kill organisms like bacteria, animals and even people.

Answer 12

Humans are responsible today for less than 4% of total atmospheric CO2 concentration.  Some of the best historical climate scientists have called CO2 causing climate variation "highly questionable" (Fritz Moller).  They don't even know today if increasing CO2 increases or decreases global mean temperatures.  There are an extraordinary number of holes and unknowns in the theory, and real scientists don't have a personal investment in one outcome over another.  

But if you want to believe it the facts won't matter and have little to do with your beliefs in that scenario.  Many AGW believers are not motivated by logic, reason or rationality.

They just need to realize it.

Answer 13

it's not a hoax...just because it's called global warming, it doesn't mean every where is warming, it's spontaneous weather. some places are cold when it's not supposed to be cold, and it's hotter in places that are hot, and it's rainier when it's supposed to rain.

Answer 14

I honestly have no idea whether it is or not

Answer 15

this same science also shows multiple ice ages in the past. Well if there is more than one ice age clearly in the middle of those it must have warmed up. There weren't even humans around for these so it's doubtful our last 100 years of industrial living has caused this. It may have sped up what was going to happen anyway.

It's a cycle. Buy your parkas now because soon enough it'll be global cooling.

Answer 16

Very simple is the average temperature.. Do U sample every 100 sq. miles ,or do they just average the temperature of the major cities, I got news for U there are many more cities in the temperate zone than in the cold zone.

Answer 17

Boy who cried wolf phenomenon.

It would hardly be the first time that Greenpeace, Union of Concerned Scientists, Sierra Club, Earth First, etc..... made exaggerated or inaccurate claims to further an agenda that really can only be described as anti-civilization.

This one's probably more intuitively logical than many of the others.   And occasionally they stumble upon an issue on which they're right - acid rain for example.   But a stopped clock is right twice a day.  These groups don't start with facts, follow them where they logically lead, and come to a reasonable conclusion - - they start with the question "how can we raise popular opinion against (this or that development, industry, invention) by blaming it for some malady, real or imagined?"     Then they come up with a theory and they try to find facts to fit the theory.   When the facts don't fit, they just ignore or re-write them.

Answer 18

Yeh i fink that to but it is Us  that is causing global warming by polluting

Answer 19

it cost way to much to be green.  you would think that if we were so close to the world going up in a ball of flames that people wouldnt be so greedy about it.

Answer 20

Well it was warmer in the late 1930s than it is now and it was colder in the 1970s than it is now. It was also much warmer at the time of Christ and the time of Eric the Red than it is now. It was colder when St. Brendan made his trip to America in the 6th century and it was colder during the American Revolution than it is now. Point is normal temperature on this planet has a very wide swing over a couple of hundred years and often there are religious scare mongers looking to make a fast profit off of it.

What I find the most interesting is that all of the major politicians on the pro AGW side have several times had the opportunity to make improvements and each and every time they have instead made things worse. Jimmy Carter and Al Gore are the two worst offenders in making things worse even while they were raking in huge amounts of oil and coal money to kill alternative energy programs that would have made the US energy independent forever and made us the biggest energy exporter instead of importer. Knowing this makes me highly suspicious of their motives in promoting these things now.

Answer 21

What we call global warming is a natural process that happens every so often like a big cycle of earth's climate. The warmer it gets the fast things decay the faster they decay the more gases they release these gases trigger a rise in climate. The rise in climate causes the polar ice caps to melt. As the caps melt the sea level rises. When this happens hot and cold water can no longer be properly circulated to create a temperate climate we as a civilization have grown accustomed to because the driving currents in the oceans weaken as the water level gets higher. With less hot/cold circulation, the hot places get hotter and the cold places get a whole lot cooler bringing us into an ice age. It is a natural process that earth goes thru. The end.

Answer 22

I think many people legitimately believe in the theory, but the foundation of the Global Warming research the United Nations organization the IPCC has been caught falsifying data, peer reviewing their own papers and stone walling scientists that do not agree with their findings.

http://www.nowpublic.com/ipcc_falsifying...