Why is everyone so quick to assume that Anthropogenic global warming exists?

Question

There has NEVER been many conclusive studies, not even AH conclusive study (not even many to necessitate a rack) saying that it’s man made. With the rising tide of very credible people debunking the “scientific” evidence, doesn’t it, if at least give the pro AGW crowd pause to think?

Answer 1

Well lets see.  It took them from 1824 until about 1900 to decide the data was conclusive.  It took from then until about 1950 to decide the threat was great enough to require action.  It took from 1950 to 1980 to decide what actions are needed.  It has taken from 1980 until "whenever" to develop the technologies where we lack them and implement everything in time to prevent our own destruction.  So "quick to assume"?  Not on this planet!  "Rising tide of very credible people"?  I guess they all steer clear of Yahoo Answers!

Answer 2

Because they have so much credibility to lose...  Think of it, they'd have to recall all of the findings because they were false.

Also, they'd have to recind Al Gore "Peace" prize...

Note:  The Nobel handed to Al Gore wasn't a 'Science' prize...  Only goes to show you that even the Nobel committee doesn't consider AGW or GW as science.  And I giggle about that...

Answer 3

of course, it's science. science barely ever has conclusive studies! but you have to take away what you can when you have a reasonable amount of information

atch an inconvenient truth

it will prove it to you in a documentary form and explain it way better than i can right here

fact: practically every scientist agrees that it exists

yes, these are people who study this stuff as a career, and they're very intelligent people too.

Answer 4

everyone? lol! i wish.

quick? oh if only we had started doing something 20 years ago, if our maggie hadnt had such a crush on reagan she might have tried harder to persuade him.... she took measures that fit in with her politics, i.e. closed the coal mines and developed north sea gas instead.

assume? i assume you are a wind up merchant. hang on, didnt we just have this question?

Answer 5

LOL

Yeah, we should have been worrying about Global Warming 20 years ago... back when the Liberal Media was banging the drums over the coming Ice Age......

Answer 6

Global warming is but a component, in a group of destructive forces at work such as ;deforestation,desertification,Subsequen... wind and Water erosion,soil and water contamination ,irresponsible or wasteful utilization of bio resources and air pollution.

WHICH WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR.

in the last 300 years half of the planets forests have gone

and in the last 50 years

half of our wet lands ,rain forests and ice fields .and 3000 species of animals .

Having changed so much of nature into concrete or tar ,and removed so many forests that absorb heat during the day and release it at night as well as the absorbing of carbon .And so regulating climates

Also the precipitation which makes inland rain and keep rivers flowing.

The result of extensive deforestation is ,that rivers dry up ,

This is not helped by Man over pumping Carbon aquifers for irrigation.

We must have had some effect on the climate to say the least

Not to speak of air pollution .and Global warming that comes on top.

Watch a BBC documentary by David Attenborough

he did about 15 movies called Planet earth

the ones called Future ,the ice worlds ,from Pole to Pole ,

covers the poles and shows footage of polar bears swimming

All 15 movies are great these people have been making nature movies for many years and they show and talk about the differences of what they see today ,

compared with before

They say whole migrations of millions of animals in the tundras have disappeared in just 5 years.

And everywhere they go people talk about certain species not being there any more..

thousands of species of frogs have gone ,world wide.

this is very significant because they are indicators of pollution because their skin is very absorbent,and they are sensitive to environmental changes.

The increase in water temperature will get faster all the time as well as the melting, when the ice is all gone the deeper cold Ocean currents will be drastically affected,which in turn will affect the warm currents,since all moving bodies of water are connected in series.

This will affect coastal climates ,world wide ,almost instantly. All aquatic flora and fauna will be affected,many dying off and others becoming invasive,

And recently In Chiapas ,and Tabasco in Mexico .more then a million people became homeless overnight with water coming up to their roofs ,because of rains from super evaporation from the forests,this had never happened before. Millions of animals died.

In India 3000 people died because of super storms .

.A few years ago in Europe 3500 people,died during a heat wave ,many of them in France .

Right now the average death toll annually is 150.000 due to Global warming

. these figures are already out of date and are expected to double soon.

In Northern China millions of people are running for their lives because regular dust storms so far have buried 900 villages under the sand and the whole of northern China is turning into a dessert.

The Sahara is growing by 7 kilometers a year all around the edges ,like a slow burning fire shriveling up their neighbors In the Kalahari huge rivers have dried up and thousand of species are gone due to their habitats disappearing .

The biggest changes are invisible at micro biotic levels species are becoming extinct ,others are multiplying ,

This affects the insect populations that follow ,and changes in that ,affect all that follows in the food chains ,

We are now witnessing a mass Extinction of animals and plants of Biblical proportions,equal since the disappearance of the dinosaurs

.

Whole migrations of animals involving millions have disappeared in only 20 years,

in one place in the tundras ,in just 5 years

CHECK THE CLOCK FOR THE SPEED

http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf

If we want to save ourselves as a specie ,we have to address

the problems

We can correct most of the destructive factors

with disciplines ,changes of attitude and habits,alternative energies ,sustainable design etc.

All species are in Danger eventually,and each is important because all of Life on this planet is interrelated even if it is not obvious

Imagine that the Eco system is a wall and each specie is represented by a brick

Every brick taken out weakens the wall ,and eventually it will collapse ,which brick is the most important ???

they are all important and we are one of the bricks

Answer 7

What "rising tide of very credible people"?

On the contrary, if you've followed the subject very long and actually read the 100+ year history of global warming study, you'd know that while actual climate scientists debated for decades in the past, they now agree on the following fundamental points:

1) The planet is warming (the peak in 1998, doesn't change the long-term trend and will most certainly be exceeded, just like other peaks last century).

2) CO2 levels are rising 20-times as fast as any known previous rise in the past 20,000 years

3) Human activity (e.g. fossil fuel burning, deforestation) is the reason for the CO2 level rise

4) CO2 is a greenhouse gas with a well known atmospheric warming effect

5) More CO2 in the atmosphere will increase the temperature

The above aren't even being debated any more by practicing climate scientists.  What is still unknown is:

1) How much will a doubling of CO2 warm the planet? 1.5 C - 4.0 C is the best answer we have now

2) Will hurricanes increase as it warms? Still unknown

3) How much will sea-level rise by 2100?  Most scientists agree it's somewhere around 0.5M, but some glaciologists are claiming it could be significantly more.

4) Will our food growth be hurt by higher atmospheric CO2 levels? Still under debate, but several studies have found decreased nutrient content when grown at higher CO2 levels.

5) How will the increased CO2 levels in the ocean effect things?  Acidification? Reefs?

Answer 8

Your claim that there have been no conclusing studies saying that global warming is man-made is simply wrong.  There have been hundreds.

For a summary of the scientific evidence on global warming (man-made and otherwise), please see my wiki article linked below.

Answer 9

Because people believe everything they hear, read, or see in the media to be true.

Answer 10

Plain and simple answer is that it fits their agenda and any other assumptions would not fit their agenda so those facts must be silenced. We constantly hear that the debate is over, this is not how scientific methodoligy works. This is how political ideology works.

I don't think any new facts, no matter how significant, would give the pro AGW fanatics a reason to stop and think. Does this sound like scientific reasoning to anybody???

Answer 11

The debate is already over. It is only the fossil fuel companies that want you to believe otherwise. They know this is a losing battle but if they can make it seem like a debate long enough they can sell off most of the remaining reserves on our planet before the inevitable happens, we switch to clean renewable energy.

The only questions remaining are what will the state of the world be by then and will all that money that has been made really be worth much as many of the gifts of the world will have been destroyed by then?