Why do u think global warming is fake?

Question

how can global warming be fake when the co2 levels of the atmosphere are rising, animals are losing their habitats, and our weather is gone crazy?

Answer 1

WHAT IN THE WAORLD IS GLOBAL WARMING????.....?

ISNT IS WHERE THE POLES MELT AND LIKE IT FLOODS EVERYTHING??....

O WELL ITS FAKE FOR NOW CUZ WE DONT KNOW WHEN IT WILL HAPPEN!!

Answer 2

it isnt fake!!!!!! where did u hear that????????

Answer 3

Al Gore is a big FAT fake!!! and a LAIR and you believer are like a bunch of sheep!!!

Answer 4

global warming has been cancelled. it's been replaced by climate change. that way, the fanatics can claim to be right no matter what happens. we are actually in a period of global cooling right now, with some of the coldest temps ever being recorded.

Answer 5

Global warming is actually not true. It is more correctly called Regional Global Warming. While "MOST" of the Earth is getting warmer, there are some parts of the Earth actually getting cooler.

Answer 6

No one can say it's fake or even true yet, because we don't have enough data yet.

Answer 7

There are millions of reasons supporting global warming and also many that don't support it. Either way its an ever growing debate of what is happening to the earths atmoshphere. Many people think global warming is being caused by green house gasses, but it clearly is not. Every 20 years or so the earth goes through temperature changes. During the 1930s the temperatures raised a great deal and they believed it was global warming (obviously it wasn't). During the 1950s and 1960s the temperatures dropped to an all time low leaving them to believe to was global cooling (obviously it wasn't). Which leaves us to conclude, what does cause these dramatic changes in temperature? It is unevident at the moment and scientists are continuely forming theories. None of them have proved plausible to this day. Hopefully sometime in the near future we will discover what is really happening to the earth, but until then its your decision to believe what ever the theory may be. Hope I helped =]

Answer 8

It's not fake. increased VOCs, loss of ozone, and rise of bad ozone levels in the Antarctic shows it's happening. I don't understand why someone would conceal this very urgent problem.

Answer 9

over the last century, the temperature of the earth raised 1 degree celcius, over the last 1 year it has dropped that whole 1 degree leaving it exactly where it was.  the polar ice caps are back and there is 1 third more ice in antarctica then normal.  its just a solar pattern.  if there is any truth to the matter the truth is that the sun causes it.  al gore is wrong! and so is everyone else that says it is true and tries to blame everything on america, not very surprising though, thats what liberals do! and by the way i expect all the thumbs down from people who dont know any better so you wont hurt my feelings, go ahead.

Answer 10

It's absolutely positively real, unfortunately.

Answer 11

No one know for sure, maybe the climate is changing, maybe not. Human beings don't fully understand their environment. We understand a little but not nearly enough to make accurate predictions. We cant even accurately predict tomarrows weather much less major climate change. It something I think about every now and then.

Answer 12

Temperature is leading CO2 by about 800 years. CO2 is following temperature changes. How can it be that a higher temperature causes more CO2?

CO2 is a gas produced by all living things. We’re all made of carbon dioxide. Humans aren’t the main source. Volcanoes, animals and bacteria, dying vegetation, and the oceans produce a lot more.

If CO2 doesn’t drive earth’s climate, what does? Look at the sky; the gigantic thing called the Sun. The origin of long-term weather forecasting is the Sun. It’s much more interesting to use sunspots to predict the weather. Sunspots are intense magnetic fields. Astronomers used to count the number of spots thinking that more spots meant warmer weather. During the little ice age, there were few sunspots visible.

There’s a close correlation between what the sun’s doing and temperature here on earth. The sun is driving changes in the climate. It also affects us indirectly through clouds. How are clouds formed?

Cosmic rays meeting water from the sea, they form water droplets, creating clouds. When the sun is stronger, fewer particles get through, and fewer clouds get formed. The climate was controlled by the clouds, controlled by cosmic rays, controlled by the sun. The intensity of its magnetic field more than doubled in the 20th century.

What causes the increase in natural disasters? Global cooling and the threat of a new ice age was the problem in the 1970s. Experts warned that extreme cold temperatures would be a terrible problem. One scientist suggested that increased carbon dioxide output by humans could help to warm the earth.

Why did this theory go away? (1) Temperatures rose and (2) the miners went on strike. Nuclear is misrepresented. Since nuclear has no carbon dioxide emissions, prove that carbon dioxide is a problem. Then, nuclear power will be really pushed over oil and coal. Mrs. Thatcher set up the IPCC which produced a report suggesting global disaster as a result of global warming. He noticed the ignorance of all scientific data up to that point, such as the emphasis on the sun.

This was also attractive to medieval environmentalists. They loved it because CO2 is clearly an industrial gas, tied in with economic growth and car transportation. Basically: civilization. There are people who think economic growth is bad, and global warming could be used to justify a whole range of myths. It’s also anti-US.

Now in the 1980s, a majority of people agreed with environmentalists. You can’t be confrontational that way. So you need to take increasingly extreme standpoints. Also, the failure of global communism meant that communists took their anti-capitalist views with them elsewhere.

It was attracting more media attention, and thus, more government funding. $170 million a year, which was reasonable.. but then it jumped to $2 billion a year, and that brought a lot of jobs and new people who otherwise weren’t interested. You have whole cadres of people whose only interest is that there is global warming. If your field is the one of concern, you have to do less work showing why you should get funding. It’s a small part of science, but funding is going into global warming and distorting its part.

Climate models are only as good as their assumptions. A bad prediction could be far worse than none at all. All models assume man-made CO2 is the main source of climate change, instead of the sun, water vapor, and clouds. The models are so exciting that you can change a subtle detail and make something exciting happen. You can model anything.

An impressive way of making a more interesting forecast is by saying there will be more man made CO2 than there is. Climate forecasts are only proved wrong long after people have forgotten about it. Forecasters are more concerned about making a model that’s impressive.

If you run a model and nothing happens, then it won’t get printed. If you run the model and something amazing happens, people will say it’s exciting and it’ll get picked up by the media. There’s a bias towards results that are able to be dramatized

Environmental journalists? If the global warming story goes into the trash can, so does their job. The story has to get more dramatic because otherwise hardened news editors will think: “oh, it’s the same thing you reported 5 years ago.”

Catastrophic melting of the polar ice caps? Greenland was much warmer than it is just 1000 years ago. Yet there wasn’t a major meltdown event. The ice caps are always expanding and contracting, according to Professor Akasofu. This is becoming news now only because we have satellites that can now see this. People forget that ice is always moving. Falling ice in the arctic is as ordinary as falling autumn leaves. It happens every year. There’s no evidence of catastrophe due to global warming.

Just because you saw something happen to the ocean last year doesn’t mean something changed in the climate last year. In fact, that’s pretty unlikely, since it takes hundreds of years for the deep ocean to change, and then reflect that on the ocean surface.

Mosquitoes aren’t tropical; they thrive in cold temperatures. They’re extremely abundant in the arctic. In the 1920s, there was an epidemic of malaria, with about 600,000 deaths. It’s not a tropical disease. People in global warming invent scare stories that it will spread north due to warmer temperatures.

More than $4 billion a year is spent on global warming. Scientists speaking out against it are much more likely to lose. Few take a stand because it does cut into research funding. People think that these people are paid off by the oil and gas companies. But they’re not; there’s almost no private sector funding of climatology.

This is putting pressure on developing countries, suggesting that they shouldn’t develop. The UN is sponsoring a conference about global warming in developing countries. How to promote solar panels in Africa? Billions of dollars in climate science means there’s a lot of people dependent on those dollars, and they want to see that carry forward. They have a Global Warming Officer! There are a lot of people, in some way or another, dependent on it. People who dare challenge man-made global warming are vilified. If you’re skeptical about climate change, it’s like you’re a holocaust denier. Environmentalists are influential on a global level, and politicians know this.

The US government has succumbed in the past month, and now they are investigating environmental problems in the developing world. The policies being pushed are having a disastrous effect on the world’s poorest people. They also have the Precautionary Principle, and it’s used in one direction only: the risk of using fossil fuels, but not the risks of not using it. It never talks about the positives of using the energy!

500 million children die by indoor smoke because they have to burn things for fuel in developing countries. They don’t have electricity, which creates a long chain of problems. No refrigeration or modern packaging, so food can’t be kept. And there’s no hot water. The life expectancy of people living without electricity is short.

My own question. What about before electricity was widely used? Electronics are only an invention of the past couple hundred years. Humans lived long before that.

People promoting solar and wind power really like the idea of global warming. Personally, that includes me. But it’s true that they are notoriously unreliable, as the video claims. And they are a lot more expensive, too. It’s expensive for the Europeans and Americans, but for Africans, it’s about survival! This promotes the idea that the world’s poorest should be restricted to the most expensive types of energy. Saying they must use solar panels means that they can’t have electricity!

Also, there’s a romanticism of the simple life. I agree: it’s really not that great. I love living in modern society here in California. Industrialization is really a good thing, no matter how much those people try to make it sound bad.

Answer 13

Because the earth has been going through temperature changes since it's creation... for example the iceage. I think global warming is true in the fact that parts of the world that were usually cold are getting warmer but at the same time places that are generally warm are getting colder. It's not really global warming just a climate change.

Yes, I agree that co2 levels are rising and animals are losing habitats but global warming isn't causing that. We as people are causing that with polution. I do think polution is having it's effects on our planet but I do not think global warming is true.

Actually Scientists are proving more and more that global warming doesn't exist. Global Warming is ONLY a THEORY!!!! They're calling it Global Climate Change because it's causing cold climates to warm and warm climates are cooling... Politicians created global warming as a way to raise taxes and raise money.... Maybe you should do your research little lady... Rainforest destruction and Pollution is the real problem at hand... and that's not caused by global warming. Destroying our trees and forests and the release of co2 from things like vehicles are causing co2 levels to rise... if global warming did exist, how would rising co2 levels have anything to do with that.???

Answer 14

because the changes are very small we didnt do much yet but the changes are about 5 degress at the highest parts

Answer 15

The issue is NOT whether it is fake, but whether it is manmade versus part of a natural climatic change process. Global climate change has been going on since the dawn of time. Once you accept that, then you realize that we can't fight Mother Nature... Rather that we must learn to adapt, because She will always win... Or even worse, we could make things worse by trying to change the unchangeable.

Answer 16

It`s fake, all the snow, rain and nice sun shine tell me so. A scientist i never meet says the world is burning up does not match up with what my eyes see and my skin feels.

Answer 17

NO of course not I mean what did the polar bears all decide to drown themselves? are icecaps suddenly melting because of some unexplained force of course its real!!!

Answer 18

i dont think its fake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 19

it is real they have proof.

Answer 20

fake? no.

Answer 21

its real

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Answer 22

Not so much fake, as a poorly understood phenomenon, with a highly politicized and poorly supported hypothesis being used to force social change.

Answer 23

Global warming..... and Global Cooling....are both real.  The cycles of warming and cooling have gone on for millions of years.

It is normal.

If you mean AGW, then my opinion is that scientists currently don't know if the Earth is warming or cooling.  The temperature data that they have been using for years is flawed.

There can be no 'clean' science if the data is 'dirty'.

Answer 24

you ask me this last night and I answered so Im not answering it again

Answer 25

Who thinks it's fake? Only idiots do.