Will the global warming scare go away as quickly as the ozone hole, bird flu and the global cooling scares?

Question

Will the global warming scare go away as quickly as the ozone hole, bird flu and the global cooling scares?

Answer 1

no, to many people have invested money into scaring people about global warming.  Al Gore might have a sequel in the works to scare us even more that the sky is falling.  One thing you forgot was SARS,  remember when we were all going to die from that?

Answer 2

Great idea!!  And I thought you were a doubter.

Let's duplicate the international cooperation demonstrated in the Montreal Protocol.  That agreement phased out the production of CFCs, halons, carbon tetrachloride, and methyl chloroform so that the hole could heal in 50 - 100 years.  

So if only our governments had enough sense to come up with a similar international agreement to phase out emission of greenhouse gases. Then our global warming problem would go away in 100 years or so.

Yep, the best way to make a scare like global warming or the ozone hole go away is to actually stop causing the problem.

Answer 3

I'm hopeful that common sense will prevail and climatologists will change their position and accept that human made CO2 doesn't affect climate enought to measure and that their consensus is just that the world should be a more socalistic.

Answer 4

Yes, probably in the next 1-2 years.  If you look at the global temperature record (I use the GISS Land Ocean index, but any global record will do as they all show similar trends), you will see that the general warming trend can be broken into sub-cycles that last about 64 years.  Each cycle consists of a roughly 32 year period of stable, or slightly falling temperatures followed by a 32 year period of increasing temperatures (Interestingly enough, the two increasing temperature periods both show essentially the same rate of increase, despite the large difference in atmospheric CO2 during these two periods).  The last increasing period started in 1978, that means it is due to end in 2009-2010.  If the cycle holds, and I see no reason why it should not, we will then enter a prolonged period of stable or slightly falling temperatures.  The last time this happened we actually had noted scientists warning us of an upcoming ice age.

Does this mean that the long term warming trend (which is roughly 10,000 years old) is ending; probably not.  What it does mean, however, is that those who are using global warming to drum up hysteria to advance their political or social agendas will have to find another stalking horse.

Answer 5

one can only hope! but I doubt it. too many people have all their political capital invested in the current agw scam.

also many semi competent researchers have gotten publicity from agw when they would have never even been published any other way.

its the perfect scam because no individual can remember what the climate was like when their great great parents were born.

& how many of us can check whether co2 is .0004% of the air we breathe or .0003%?

we have to depend on published data & its impossible to prove a negative. so anyone can claim anything they want & have it accepted as fact.

Answer 6

And the asbestos scare and leaded gasoline pumping lead into the air scare and the tobbacco scare...

Answer 7

i definitely do think it will go away maybe not as fast as thoes other things but its going to be gone soon enough

Answer 8

ozone hole still happens, the montreal agreement only contained it;

http://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/

bird flu hasnt gone away, you bother with news from any of the rest of the world i suppose;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/south_...

global cooling, there is a massive haze over east asia,

http://www.scidev.net/en/news/brown-haze...

oh, looks like the hlobal cooling thong is in your imagination, that black smoke is actually heating rather than cooling....

so, what was the question?

Answer 9

Due to the intense marketing job done by the 'man-did-it' crowd, this latest craze will be a nuisance for a longer time than the others.

Answer 10

Yes, the list of failed scare tactics by the left are really adding up.

Answer 11

No.

Take "global cooling".  This was an idea of just a few guys with no data and no backing from any major scientific organization.  They got way more attention from the media than they deserved, much like today's "skeptics".

Global warming science is completely different.  Thousands of scientists, hundreds of studies all saying it's real, and the backing of EVERY major scientific organization.

This is the real deal.

Answer 12

No, it's  all still there just like global warming.  If people continue to deny them then eventually most people will turn into denying retards, just like the current global warming ones are.

Answer 13

Not quite that fast, but it will go away. The earth has already started to cool, but it will take several years for AlGore's followers to admit they have been fooled by a dishonest opportunist who hates America because we wouldn't let him be President.

Answer 14

Global cooling was never a real issue.

As far as the other goes, they hasn't gone away but are still kept under observation. Measures are done to keep them from becoming serious. I hope we soon can say the same for global warming as well.

Answer 15

I think it would go away a lot sooner if al gore would quit blowing so much hot air

Answer 16

no there is too much at stake on this one they will keep the lie going until the next ice age begins