Global warming is a hoax!
By Insiteful
@Insiteful (49)
United States
February 13, 2007 9:27am CST
How is it that people can still look you in the eye and say they don't beleive that human-caused global warming is a hoax? With the recent release of the IPCC report on global warming, as well as the release of the film "An Inconvenient Truth", which lays out the science of the case and connects the dots in a very straighforward manner, how can anyone be so ill informed, stubborn, cowaedly, or all of the above by holding to the dangerous belief that global warming is not real.
Even IF human caused global warming is not real, why not work to control it? To do so requires we clean up our interactions with the environment, become a sustainable planatary culture, and it creates many opportunities for economic and monetary gain. Why fear that?
6 responses
@skyblade (482)
• United States
13 Feb 07
I haven't seen the film, but I do not believe in human-caused global warming. I believe global warming is natural and occurs as part of a geological cycle. Scientists have only been recording global temperatures for the last 100 or so years AT MOST. The earth has been around for way longer than that. Maybe the globe is at record tempartures for the past 100 or so years, but the cycle is a lot longer than that.
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@jwfarrimond (4473)
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13 Feb 07
I agree with that entirely. I think that the warming trend that we are seeing at the present is entirely natural. That being the case, nothing that we do will have any influence on it. At the most, (and this is debatable) human activities may have made the rise faster, but there have been similar rises in the past that have been greater than what we are seeing at the present.
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@Insiteful (49)
• United States
13 Feb 07
I am sorry, but you are mistaken.
Climatologists have been able to measure global temperature AND CO2 content going back 650000 years! That span includes about 12 diffent sized ice-ages and the warm periods between them. Currently, the CO2 level in the atmosphere is more than double what it has ever been in the last 650,000 years.
Also, the "predicition" of an impending ice age was not a forecast that one would occur in a given year, at a given time. It was an observation that according to the natural cycles observed over the last 650, 000 years an ice was due. However that fact that one does not seem to be starting yet, taken with the trends in global temperatures not only goes against the observed natural cycles you speak of, it supports the idea of unnatural globel warming.
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@kesfylstra (1868)
• United States
13 Feb 07
It bothers me how global warming has become a "political" issue, so to agree with it is to be colored as liberal. That's insane! I'm very conservative, but even the untrained person can see that we are getting more extreme weather, and whether or not the icecaps are going to melt and kill us all I don't know, but it still seems like cutting down on gasoline usage, using low-energy light bulbs, recycling are all easy steps that we should all be considering just out of respect for our planet.
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@Insiteful (49)
• United States
13 Feb 07
You make a GREAT point. These issues transcend politics, but politics being what they are, like minds flock together. It is a shame that one issue is enough to get you alienated. But, it serves to remind us that life is about making hard choices. I am not a liberal, but I have to live with being branded that way by conservatives based on this one thing. I guess I can live with that. I consider myself a rationaist, independant.
@john_essex (199)
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16 Feb 07
I really wish that it was a hoax. I have children and I'm worried that we are not leaving them much of a planet to live on.
If global warming is a hoax then why have Sir Richard Branson and Al Gore put up $25 Million to anyone who can come up with a way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere?
Those who deny gloabl warming are mostly dumb people who believe the spin put out by the oil companies. The information is easily available on the Internet, I have read many arguements for and against global warming. Unfortunately, it looks certain that it is happening and that it is caused by humans.
You should also be aware that the IPCC report is very conservative, the reallity may be far worse than suggested in the report.
I do not think it has to be all doom and gloom. I'm confident that once people realise the danger we are in that we will find a solution. The first step is to acknowledge the problem. Don't forget that this is a global problem and it WILL affect every single person on the planet.
@Insiteful (49)
• United States
19 Feb 07
One thing that stikes me is that people will not do anything about it on there own. Why not get proactive? It is obvious, that political leaders have been unwilling, until lately, to do anything about this, and everyone else just follows their lead.
Here's a suggestion: SLOW DOWN! If everyone would back off the gas peddle we would save millions of barrels of oil every year, and thus not add all that addtional CO2 to the atmosphere. Why is it that people need to drive so fast? If the speed limit is 65, why are you drives 80? Or even 75? The energy required to move a vehicle at 80 mph is exponentially higher than moving it at 60 or 65.
I would even be willing to go back to 55 on a national basis. It would mean safer roads, fewer traffic hassles, and reduced pollution, as well as helping us towards energy independance.
@cool_ajay (35)
• India
15 Feb 07
well, i believe if someone doesnt understand the pro with global warming, then he must watch "Day After Tomorrow "
@Insiteful (49)
• United States
15 Feb 07
When I first saw that film, I dismissed it as being too over the top. But, now, not so sure!
@mememama (3076)
• United States
16 Feb 07
Because people are too lazy to care about what they do and how it impacts the future. For example, I use cloth diapers-I'll get people complaining that I use water and detergent and it has the same environmental impact as disposable diapers. I'll remind them that the study they are pointing to was funded by disposable diaper company and that it still takes water and chemicals to make the disposables, plus gas to drive them to the store. Then they'll just get this blank look on their face and go "ewww" while throwing a crap encased diaper into a landfill. The same goes with recycling, you'll get people shouting "but it takes energy and electricity to recycle", then I remind them that it still takes energy and electricity to make a brand new item, then they'll chant "but I don't have the time blablabla". It's sad that people simply just don't care.
@Insiteful (49)
• United States
16 Feb 07
Not to mention the problems disposibles cause when they get into water. Fish are negatively impacted.
The message has to be put in front of people faces every day, and marketing has to find a way to stop sending contradictory messages. But, it's a marketers job to confuse the public if it sells product, and they have a lot more money than anyone on the other side of the argument.
People are not bad, but the do suffer from conditioned response, and it is not easy to change that conditioned response that has been so carefully placed in their heads.
