Is there anyone that still believes that climate change is not man made?
Author: admin / Category: long island coastalOr still doubt that climate change is happening at all.
My personal beliefs :-
There is a powerful lobby, backed by the oil, automobile and other vested inerest industries, that still puts out information to the contrary, even though EVERY scientific study to date confirms global warming. This has now been proved beyond any doubt, and that this change is directly related to industrial and human output of CO2 into the atmosphere.
I await with interest the arrival of the next El Ninjo and its worldwide repercussions.
Being a Sailor (32,000 sea miles experience) and a scuba-diver, I’ve personally witnessed huge changes in weather patterns, so rapid as to be shocking. In every place I’ve visited, locals say the same thing, they can no longer predict what happens with the weather as they did before. Also, so many coral reefs killed off by warmer sea temperatures.
The Ice caps and glaciers melting at an alarming rate.
The "tundra" de-frosting, and this freeing the trapped methane, which is many times more dangerous than CO2.
I see my girlfriends young grandson and wonder how his offsprings life will be. It is our inability to change our consumer and energy consumption habits, which in the end is denying our own offspring the same chances as we ourselves have. We are multiplying the costs to future generations by delaying action now.
I also like coral Islands like those in the Bahamas, and the Maldieves.
I’m not happy that perhaps a billion people may be forced from coastal areas, just because so many people won’t give up their polluting ways now.
There are many more stupid people than intelligent people, and even more selfish people than that. And even the smart, non-selfish ones won’t make sacrifices. So what does it matter. Burn baby burn.
January 25th, 2010 at 2:50 pm
There is a volcano in Antarctica called Mount Erebus. This is constantly spewing forth all sorts of hot gases. Also, there’s Mount Kilauea in Hawaii, which is always popping off. These are putting more pollutants in the air than all of the world’s cars and factories combined. Look it up in Wikipedia.
Also, what makes people so sure that global warming would be a bad thing? The Earth has been through warming and cooling cycles more often than anybody can imagine.
Personally, I will believe in global warming when I see orange groves in Ohio and coffee plantations in Kentucky.
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January 25th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
You realize there is also a big lobby financing global warming propaganda as well, right?
CO2 levels have risen 0.01% since 1800. There is global warming on Mars too and no SUV driver. The cover story on TIME magazine in 1975 was about the threat of global cooling. Scientific consensus is an oxymoran. The Argentinan glacial ice is expanding 10m a day. This was Europe’s coldest winter in recorded history. The mean global temp has not risen since 1998. Al Gore uses more fossil fuel to heat his pool in a month than the average american family uses on their home in a year.
Oh, sorry, I forgot, there was no evidence to the contrary. Forget what I said.
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January 25th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
Because they are confused and misled by groups who have come right out and admitted it is their goal to confuse them. (In 1991, a US corporate coalition including the National Coal Association, the Western Fuels Association and Edison Electrical Institute created a public relations organization called the "Information Council on the Environment" (ICE). ICE launched a $500,000 advertising campaign to, in ICE’s own words, "reposition global warming as theory not fact.")
There are already two answers here, one says there is global warming on Mars, which is untrue, it’s localized and based on one year (1). The other response says volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans (2). Also untrue, not to mention the fact that volcanoes also emit SO2, and have an overall cooling effect.
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1.) http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=192
2.) http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/12/17/223957/72
January 25th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
I do not.
The problem with your statement is that there has never been in the history of the earth the concept of a static climate. The climate changes all of the time.
So this is not a question of has the climate change, but how much, how much are humans responsible, will the fute rise in temperatures (if any) be something that we should be concern. Over the past century temperatures have risen 0.7 degrees and civilization has prospered. Our standard of living has gone up. That is a good thing isn’t it?
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January 25th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
The climate always changes. The question is, is man the cause of it and I say no. The idea that we’re causing the Earth ot warm up– or is that cooling down– wait, now it’s stable. Anyway, the past several years have taught me that this is all BS. How many times do we have to go through cycle of heating and cooling to realize that nothing is wrong with the weather?
We may not like 42 below, and we may not like 92 above with the same humidity. But just because the weather and climate doesn’t do what we want it to do, doesn’t mean there’s a problem caused by man.
Climate is cyclical! I’ve seen it. Years of mild temperatures in the winter, back to freezing cold. Years of heat in the summer, back to more mild temperatures. This winter is no different than what they were talking about in the 1970’s with "heading into a mini ice age and we’re the cause of it."
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January 25th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
Science doesn’t care what you believe. Beliefs are for mystics and soothsayers.
Saying that you have to believe by definition makes your view a religion, and not science.
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January 25th, 2010 at 6:13 pm
The global climate change we are witnessing is a cyclic occurrence, as historical records indicate (The Little Ice Age). The human factor has acted as a catalyst, but it is not the cause.
People like you irritate the fuck out of me. Do a little bit of research before posting such idiocy.
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January 25th, 2010 at 6:24 pm
yes
and no one has denied that pollution should not be controlled. even by the non-believers.
are you a earth with out humans believer? that all humans should be destroyed?
are you now using a heater or fire of any kind? I hope not, because your contribution to Global waring is causing part of the problem also.
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January 25th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
Industry spends millions to fund non-profits who in turn fund studies by scientists skeptical of man-made global warming.
Government spends billions for studies by scientists who seek to prove man-made global warming.
I like coral islands too. The oldest ones are 700 years old. I.e., they date back to the last warm period.
Unless Eric the Red and William the Conqueror drove SUVs…..
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January 25th, 2010 at 7:12 pm
There are many more stupid people than intelligent people, and even more selfish people than that. And even the smart, non-selfish ones won’t make sacrifices. So what does it matter. Burn baby burn.
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January 25th, 2010 at 7:39 pm
Global Warming being man-made is just a load of rubbish spewed from power-hungry governments and greedy faceless corporations. Why do ALL respected scientists agree that its man-made? simple. Those that believe otherwise no longer become respected, so when we’re told all respected scientist say its man-made, that’s because they’re all one-sided. The globatologist community is another example. You can’t become a member if you don’t believe that GW is man-made. therefore, our two-most "reliable" sources are in fact a bunch of one-sided scientists, so therefore we the masses are given a one-sided view.
Another reason is that this benefits the governments. They can impose stealth tax and congestion charges, whatever you fancy, under the pretense of global warming, and this increases their revenue. A lot of scientists and and scientific organisations are state-funded, so think of this like a product. The government is advertising global warming, and they have their own "in-house" scientist to back up the facts, and there’s no independent scientist that can prove them wrong.
Pushing the boundaries of conspiracy and anarchism I know, but this can also be attempt on our governments to crack down on our freedom of movement. Soon we’ll only be able to move on public transport, to certain, specified places, and we can be kept in certain areas.
Moving away from conspiracy, you will find that the Earth follows a 2000-year cycle, with peak height and cold every 1000 years. The Vikings didn’t name Greenland because it had no grass, they named it because back in the early centuries after the fall of Rome and the beginning of Feudalism, the global climate was hot, so Greenland was covered in grass-unless of course the Vikings did have an impeccable sense of sarcasm-and there was not a single car in sight.
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January 25th, 2010 at 8:15 pm
global warming is a natural phenomenon but i believe that humans are hastening the warming of the earth thru the aggressive use of fossil fuel that release green house gases and increase the levels of these gases in the atmosphere which increase global temperature…
if it’s okay for humans to experience some ICE AGE again then go ahead but i think everyone is not cool about the idea of having an ice age because many will die… ARE we too selfish to the generations that will come after us, having them inherit some dead chamber of cold ice and reduced vegetation and source of food??
i have read that The global atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has increased from a pre-industrial value of about 280 ppm
to 379 ppm3 in 2005. and that CO2 atmospheric concentration in 2005 exceeds the natural range over the last 650,000 years which is just 180 to 300 ppm, as found from the ice cores.
on methane, another green house gas, global atmospheric concentration increased from a pre-industrial value of about 715 ppb
to 1732 ppb in the early 1990s, and was 1774 ppb in 2005. like CO2 atmospheric concentration of methane in 2005 also exceeds the natural range of the last 650,000 years which was just 320 to 790 ppb as found from the ice cores.
and thirdly, on nitrous oxide, nitrous oxide concentration increased from a pre-industrial value of about 270 ppb to 319 ppb in 2005. and it is said that more than a third of all nitrous oxide emissions are anthropogenic and are primarily due to agriculture.
so you see humans has so much contribution to the increase in global temperatures as seen from the data comparing the levels of green house gases (CO2 methane and nitrous oxide) during pre-industrial period with the levels during the industrial period. and the industrial period is characterized by massive use of fossil fuels u see… and the utilization of these contribute to the increase in green hous gas levels and thereby the warming of the earth…
and it’s pretty clear with the kind of weather too now… i do not know if changes are noticeable in all parts of the world but here in my place… januaries and februaries and decembers are supposedly just about cold days… weird though that it rains a lot now, it’s still cold but 2 or 3 days of rain is usually followed by like 2 days of pure hot sunny days which i do not expect on these cold months… and it is just this year and the december that passed wherein there is frequent raining and then sunny hot days and frequent rains again… weird… climate change for sure…
and the greater the global temperatures increase, i believe crazier the weather and the climate itself will be!!! with the so much unexpected changes in the weather’s status and severity… which can affect vegetation and animals and thereby humans because we are all interconnected in the food chain…
i have heard about this global warming thing when i was like 5 or 6 but it is just now that i am 21 and had graduated college and doing nothing recently, that i actually see this issue as some BIG DEAL… (probably because i got more time watching natGeo and discovery channel and be more informed.heheh)…and it is really a BIG DEAL too anyway…
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–http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
–http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/Report/AR4WG1_Print_SPM.pdf
January 25th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
ME. The Earth goes through a cycle. Warming. Ice Age. Warming. Ice Age. You get the point. I think. or do I have to say more? Warming. Ice Age. Warming. Ice Age. You go ahead. Stop driving your car to reduce "Global Warming" for those people who still believe in global warming. Which should be GLOBAL FREEZING. -20 wind chill here in Michigan.
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January 25th, 2010 at 9:23 pm
Sure, many people understand that the climate has changed in the past, and changes naturally all the time. You can see their answers here in reponse to your question.
The logical mistake they make is that they don’t understand that the past change was often driven by naturally increased CO2 levels! In other words, mankind is simply driving exactly the same natural process.
That’s the danger of grasping onto the half-truths circulating around about global warming (particularly the half-truths that supposedly provide reason to be skeptical). The other half of the truth is necessary to fully understand the situation.
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January 25th, 2010 at 10:01 pm
I don’t believe it’s all caused by humans. Some, yes. Maybe even enough to cause a tipping past what would have occured if we wern’t burning old carbon, but we aren’t causing 100 percent of the change.
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