Why do some people think that the natural phenomenon 'climate change' can be stopped?

Question

The earth turns around its axis and around the sun.

The tectonic plates shift.

Weather changes.

Climate changes.

All this things are natural phenomenons. Liberals and other assorted hardcore leftists however want to use this issue as a wedge issue to try and inflict more taxes and regulations upon us. The Kyoto protocol is the biggest lie in the world since the n**i party's 25 point plan.

Answer 1

Wow- of course global warming is caused by man. Yeah, "Climate change" IS A NATURAL PHENOMENA, but our ozone is depleting because our people in power cannot see past the billfold. Why do you seem angy at people for posting their opinons when you're the one asking the question as to why people are concerened about the subject? I'm not trying to be rude, but most likely- it's people like you who have caused this to become a question at all.

Answer 2

Deep down I believe that they know that "global warming" is natural.  However this presents them with a great opportunity to advance socialistic goals by blaming man for changing the climate.  By blaming man, politicians can jump in and save man from himself by restricting freedoms and raising taxes.

Answer 3

Because the scientific data clearly proves this is real, and mostly caused by us.  What Al Gore says or does doesn't change that.

Some conservatives are annoyed that their less open minded colleagues are giving conservatives a bad reputation.

"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"

"Pat Robertson (very conservative Christian leader) 'It is getting hotter and the ice caps are melting and there is a build up of carbon dioxide in the air.  We really need to do something on fossil fuels.”

"I believe there is now more than enough evidence of climate change to warrant an immediate and comprehensive - but considered - response. Anyone who disagrees is, in my view, still in denial."

Ford Motor Company CEO William Clay Ford, Jr.

"The science of global warming is clear. We know enough to act now. We must act now."

James Rogers, CEO of Charlotte-based Duke Energy.

Answer 4

Listen up all of you right wing evangelicals in disguise. If you had actually attended a real school instead of being home schooled on that evangelical BS, you would have the answers to all of your questions already. You see, you can pray all you want but the only thing that is gonna solve problems in this world is science and technology. So just let the overwhelming majority of scientists that agree that anthropogenic global warming is real solve the problem and you stop confusing the issue by believing right wing driven, jesus-camp sponsored groups like the Heartland Institute. Go back to reading your bible and being igonorant and let the real people (AKA, scientists) solve the problem. I can guarantee you, scientists will solve the problem faster than your "god" who is just about as real as ceiling cat, the flying-spaghetti monster and the invisible pink unicorn deity.

Answer 5

Sorry but just because you say global warming is natural and just because it's happened naturally in the past, that doesn't make the current warming natural.

Normally climate change happens naturally.  This time is different.  See the link below for an explanation of how we know this.

Answer 6

Ignorance, and propagandizing by the likes of Al Gore -- who is the most effective propagandizer since Joseph Goebbels.

Answer 7

People feel that they are all powerful and that they actually make a difference in the cosmos. They cannot accept that we are just an insignificant speck in the grand scheme of things. These type of people wish to impose their will on others in an attempt to mask the ignorance of these facts. In essence they feel more powerful and  less helpless in doing so.

Answer 8

You are either ignorant, misinformed ,deluded or in severe denial.  None of your assumptions are true.

Liberals are not hardcore leftists.  Period

Most of the extremism in America these days is on the right, not the left.  Period

n***s were on the right by the way.  

"The global warming is a hoax believers don't understand the difference between informed opinion, uninformed opinion, misinformed opinion and totally ignorant opinions."

from comments at gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/11/11/236...

posted by LeeAnnG

"Scientific skepticism is a healthy thing. Scientists should always challenge themselves to expand their knowledge, improve their understanding and refine their theories. Yet this isn't what happens in global warming skepticism. Skeptics vigorously criticise any evidence that supports anthropogenic global warming (AGW) and yet eagerly, even blindly embrace any argument, op-ed piece, blog, study or 15 year old that refutes AGW"

http://www.skepticalscience.com/

"It's easy to refute all the contrarian arguments but that seems to have very little effect on how commonly they are believed. Refuted arguments seem to live on in the public imagination."

Michael Tobis Ph.D. - University of Texas Institute for Geophysics

"There's a better scientific consensus on this [climate change] than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics".

Dr. James Baker - NOAA

"A handful of "contrarian" scientists and public figures who are not scientists have challenged mainstream climatologists' conclusions that the warming of the last few decades has been extraordinary and that at least part of this warming has been anthropogenically induced. What must be emphasized here is that, despite the length of this section, there are truly only a handful of climatologist contrarians relative to the number of mainstream climatologists out there."

http://www.logicalscience.com/consensus/...

Great site showing overwhelming support for IPCC findings.

"Climate change sceptics sometimes claim that many leading scientists question climate change. Well, it all depends on what you mean by "many" and "leading". For instance, in April 2006, 60 "leading scientists" signed a letter urging Canada's new prime minister to review his country's commitment to the Kyoto protocol."

"This appears to be the biggest recent list of sceptics. Yet many, if not most, of the 60 signatories are not actively engaged in studying climate change: some are not scientists at all and at least 15 are retired.

Compare that with the dozens of statements on climate change from various scientific organisations around the world representing tens of thousands of scientists, the consensus position represented by the IPCC reports and the 11,000 signatories to a petition condemning the Bush administration's stance on climate science."

"The fact is that there is an overwhelming consensus in the scientific community about global warming and its causes. There are some exceptions, but the number of sceptics is getting smaller rather than growing.

Even the position of perhaps the most respected sceptic, Richard Lindzen of MIT, is not that far off the mainstream: he does not deny it is happening but thinks future warming will not be nearly as great as most predict."

"Of course, just because most scientists think something is true does not necessarily mean they are right. But the reason they think the way they do is because of the vast and growing body of evidence. A study in 2004 looked at the abstracts of nearly 1000 scientific papers containing the term "global climate change" published in the previous decade. Not one rejected the consensus position. One critic promptly claimed this study was wrong – but later quietly withdrew the claim."

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