Why is Global Warming treated like a joke?

Question

It's obviously very real. But there are scientists that have suddenly changed their views, maybe for money or threats, I don't know, but there are satellite images, photos, the polar bears are starving. The governemnt could set higher standards put alternative fuels into effect, but it just sits around wondering why the electric was killed, or why there are unfair satellite taxes. Why isn't it talked about in news, commercials, I mean "an inconvenient truth" should be shown everyday. And now they say that by 2050 greenhouse gases will be cut to 50%, meanwhile antarcticas' ice will have melted and sea levels will have risen 25 feet. And there will be hurricane after hurricane. I mean are we trying to lower the pupulation?

Answer 1

Actually, it isn't obvious at all.  The data is spotty, not always consistent, and in no event does it demonstrate the premise that increasing atmospheric CO2 levels (which are real enough) are a cause of purported temperature change (which may or may not be real), an effect of it, or without causal relationship at all.  The one thing of which we can be absolutely certain is that any material attempt to do anything about it will be hideously expensive; the UN recommended a program with a price tag of $557,000,000,000,000 -- more than the total value of every asset on the planet.

Answer 2

Because the politicians pushing it are not respected. They were crying ice age in the 70's. Some of the organizations pushing it have ties to anti-capitalist beliefs and therefore have a bias for other that scientific reasons. The real question is 'How much of it is man made and how much is natural. The scientist are studying, but don't forget these theories are complicated and mistakes are made in interpretation and lies for fame or fortune.

We are between two ice ages and it will warm up. There are natural changes in climate. Notice when the news/weather make a statement about record this or that, it is a record from a previous decade. Never a all time record. Hurricane Katrina was not a super storm caused by global warming, it was just a bad hurricane that hit a town that had been on the news in the previous 10 years as a town that would flood if it were to be hit by a level 5 hurricane.

Answer 3

Those who treat gobal warming as a joke are the one's who do not care about our world surviving. They only do what they want and say who cares we woun't be around when the world dies. This doesn't sound like the care about the future family members either. They only live for themselves.

Answer 4

It's being grossly exaggerated.

Yes, global warming is real, but not to the disastrous proportions that Al Gore has predicted.  He fudged the algorigthms from noaa.com to make it sound worse than it was.  

We're in between two Ice Ages, and getting warmer.  It's been warmer in the Mid Cretaceous period when tropical plants grew as far north as Greenland.  The dinosaurs had nothing to do with leaving a carbon footprint, it was the earth's normal paleoclimactic cycle, which we are currently within the norms.  We don't know exactly how MUCH we contribute to the amount of photoreactive gases in the atmosphere, and if this actually has the power to change the earth's natural cycles.

Al Gore also predicted that NYC would be underwater by now.  The man is an alarmist nut.  Then again, if anyone actually listened to that idiot after he asserted that he invented the internet, they'll believe anything.  The shot of the caps "melting" in the beginning of "An Inconvenient Truth" is fake.

Polar bears are NOT endangered, even if they were put on the list.  They're numbers have grown to 2100 from 800 in the mid 1980s.

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.h...

The government should be FOR domestic drilling because there are environmentally safe ways to do so, but they'd rather sit on their butts and punish people for owning cars.  We should drill WHILE we look at alternative methods of fuel, right now, it's still more economically viable to use fossil fuels than it is ethanol, but that's why it should be in development, to LOWER the cost.  Ethanol (gasahol) can be made from food waste, not just the food itself.  We could clean up our landfills harvesting fuel.

Answer 5

Like most conspiracy theories, if there is a dissenting opinion, or a change of opinion, then it must be 'because they were bought out or threatened by the corporations.  Fact is several hundred scientist have voluntarily removed there names from the UN global warming report because after reviewing the information they were given, they concluded on their own that the science behind the report was flawed.  Kind of like when Hilary Clinton was for the war, then changed her mind when she found out that she was given wrong info.

  Average global temperatures have actually fallen in the last 5 years, but you won't believe it because these scientists don't agree with your opinion, so they must 'work for the corporations'.

  Venus is getting hotter, and the icecap on Mars is shrinking, but this must be make believe because it does not jive with man caused temperature change.

  'An Inconvenient Truth' cannot be shown in Great Brittain without a disclaimer that the science is faulty and that it is only opinion,  but this is only to stiffle the truth.

  All I can suggest is for you to stop listening to pro-this or  pro that and do your own research.

  Here's an axiom that I live by....".Always question the source",..... no matter what side your on.  Confirm what you hear, and check the science.

Answer 6

my professor told us that this was a scheme, that global warming isn't true. that the scientist were forced to tell that we actually have global warming. she said that, the scientist were given a huge amount of money from the groups, programs, etc. that were made to stop global warming. she said that from some studies, we are really going to experience this changing of the world's climate/weather in spite of not having factories, cars, washing machines, etc. i don't really believe in her 100% but i don't like this sudden change of climate. like the ice are melting, we are about to get flooded like on the bible. omg.