Why do people still believe we are the cause of global warming?

Question

The poles of every planet are shrinking, we're having tons of tectonic and weather phenomenon, the sun is moving into an extremely powerful cycle, we're moving across a galactic plane. I mean..This is all science. How is my car exhaust creating global warming on Mars? I do believe we should get greener, but not for politics, nor should we blame ourselves to push the agenda.. We should move green and alternative because it's healthier and better for everyone, agreed?

Answer 1

Because that's what the data says.

"I wasn’t convinced by a person or any interest group—it was the data that got me. I was utterly convinced of this connection between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change. And I was convinced that if we didn’t do something about this, we would be in deep trouble.”

Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, USN (Ret.)

Former NASA Administrator, Shuttle Astronaut

Here are two summaries of the mountain of peer reviewed data that convinced Admiral Truly and the vast majority of the scientific community, short and long.

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

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

summarized at:

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report...

There's a lot less controversy about this is the real world than there is on Yahoo answers:

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/a...

And vastly less controversy in the scientific community than you might guess from the few skeptics talked about here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_...

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/fu...

EVERY major scientific organization has issued an official statement that this is real, and mostly caused by us.  The National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Physics, the American Chemical Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Association, etc.

Good websites for more info:

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

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

http://www.realclimate.org

"climate science from climate scientists"

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

Answer 2

Because we have gotten past the denial stage and realize the truth.

Answer 3

First, Mars is the only other planet we know of with polar ice caps, so to claim that "the poles of every planet are shrinking" is patently absurd. And the shrinking of the Martian ice caps has been observed for three years, that's hardly an empirical time frame.

Second, we are not experiencing any increase in tectonic or weather-related phenomenon; there is no evidence to suggest that is true in any way.

Third, there is no evidence that the sun is "moving into an extremely powerful cycle." In fact, we're just now moving out of the solar cycle, and total solar irradiance has only been measured since 1978, and has remained relatively constant.

Fourth, the effect of "moving across a galactic plane" is NOT science, it's pure astrological BS speculation.

Whether or not humans are the primary cause of global warming may be debatable, but none of the factors you mentioned are valid at all.

Answer 4

People are slowly, but surly beginning to wise up to this scam. The problem is things have become so political, the science is no longer science. This has become a left/ right issue, for obvious reasons.

No doubt AGW appeals to many liberal agendas. It appeals to the environmentalist man haters because it frowns on the efforts of men. It appeals to politicians, because they can be viewed as heroes, saviors of the masses, while at the same time giving them unprecedented amounts of control over the lives of those individuals.

Lastly, and maybe most importantly, it always comes back to the money. People like Al Gore, the supposed church fathers are lining their pockets through carbon credits and hypocritical demands on the common man to green up.

How can people not see through this?

Answer 5

All you doubters, please see this website: http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics

"How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic

Below is a complete listing of the articles in "How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic," a series by Coby Beck containing responses to the most common skeptical arguments on global warming. There are four separate taxonomies; arguments are divided by:

Stages of Denial,

Scientific Topics,

Types of Argument, and

Levels of Sophistication. "

Answer 6

no its bush

Answer 7

Media.

Answer 8

only reason why most human beings believe in it iz cuz the media and government tells them it'z real....but to tell u the truth it haz not ben truly PROVEN all it iz iz a theory/myth

Answer 9

You are so misinformed it's funny! Either that or you're being totally dishonest.

http://dels.nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/clim...

Answer 10

Because we ARE. I put people who deny global warming in the same category as people who deny the holocaust, all the evidence is there but they refuse to see it. 85% of climate scientists asked say that global warming is real, and they say that 60% of the warming is due to human activity and only 40% is natural.

Answer 11

BECAUSE THEIR IGNORANT AND  DONT USE LOGIC. man is'nt the cause of GLOBAL WARMING. WE DONT HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY.

Answer 12

Have you ever heard of the issue of the ozone layer? It was caused by humans spraying CFC's into the atmosphere. When action was taken to stop the destruction, the ozone started to heal.

The first organisms on earth expelled O2 as a waste product when there was no O2 in the world and it is now abundant in the air.

And just look at how we've changed the world from forests to cement sidewalks and wooden buildings.

bottom line- yes, a few organisms on earth make a difference

Answer 13

Hot_beac... said:

"Have you ever heard of the issue of the ozone layer? It was caused by humans spraying CFC's into the atmosphere. When action was taken to stop the destruction, the ozone started to heal."

This is pure speculation. It is starting to look like the ozone hole was, and is, actually natural and highly variable. Atmospheric CFCs may have affected the size or severity, but maybe not:

http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070924/f...

Extract:

As the world marks 20 years since the introduction of the Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone layer, Nature has learned of experimental data that threaten to shatter established theories of ozone chemistry. If the data are right, scientists will have to rethink their understanding of how ozone holes are formed and how that relates to climate change.

Long-lived chloride compounds from anthropogenic emissions of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are the main cause of worrying seasonal ozone losses in both hemispheres. In 1985, researchers discovered a hole in the ozone layer above the Antarctic, after atmospheric chloride levels built up. The Montreal Protocol, agreed in 1987 and ratified two years later, stopped the production and consumption of most ozone-destroying chemicals. But many will linger on in the atmosphere for decades to come. How and on what timescales they will break down depend on the molecules' ultraviolet absorption spectrum (the wavelength of light a molecule can absorb), as the energy for the process comes from sunlight. Molecules break down and react at different speeds according to the wavelength available and the temperature, both of which are factored into the protocol.

So Markus Rex, an atmosphere scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute of Polar and Marine Research in Potsdam, Germany, did a double-take when he saw new data for the break-down rate of a crucial molecule, dichlorine peroxide (Cl2O2). The rate of photolysis (light-activated splitting) of this molecule reported by chemists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, was extremely low in the wavelengths available in the stratosphere — almost an order of magnitude lower than the currently accepted rate. "This must have far-reaching consequences," Rex says. "If the measurements are correct we can basically no longer say we understand how ozone holes come into being." What effect the results have on projections of the speed or extent of ozone depletion remains unclear.

Paper: http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi...

Answer 14

So true,  global warming is used in every situation now. I go to the supermarket and all over is "go green, save the planet!" and on TV is Al Gore saying "WE CAUSED THIS!" but then he goes and spends millions on jet planes that use tons of gas and he tells us its because we use to much, and that's why global warming is cause. Hypocrite much?

Answer 15

I agree wit u in one way...

But i do believe tht we also did contribute to d changes of world's climate, indirectly due to our lifestyle.

What eva d reason tht caused/causing global warming, I think we should try to change b4 its really too late.

Its for our own good too.

good day..

Answer 16

true