Global Warming: A Political Lie.

[Ramulux]

Anyone willing to read between the lines, can tell that this entire global warming panic was used to allow the government to pass cap and trade laws limiting companies ability to release co2 into the atmosphere.

Its all about money. These cap and trade laws are going to bankrupt so many small businesses and cost many others millions of dollars that they cant afford.

I am in no way against green technology, I think its obvious that lowering your electricity, and gas output can only be beneficial for the environment. But this is bullshit. Al Gore is a liar, a hypocrite, and a fear monger using this to frighten people into acceptance.

[JaggedEdge]

Anyone willing to read between the lines, can tell that this entire global warming panic was used to allow the government to pass cap and trade laws limiting companies ability to release co2 into the atmosphere.

Its all about money. These cap and trade laws are going to bankrupt so many small businesses and cost many others millions of dollars that they cant afford.

I am in no way against green technology, I think its obvious that lowering your electricity, and gas output can only be beneficial for the environment. But this is bullshit. Al Gore is a liar, a hypocrite, and a fear monger using this to frighten people into acceptance.

The problem with most of the "green" solutions, is that they are bad for the environment, only in different ways. Due to the sheer numbers of windmills we would need, we would wast acres upon acres of land for a piece of equipment that strikes birds out of the sky.

Not to mention, the costs are way to great to even consider shifting to an alternative right now. The ultimate source of energy would be nuclear, but they disapprove of that technology despite it being extremely safe these days.

I'm not saying that wouldn't be expensive to switch to either, but it would be far more worth the expense than supposed "green" technologies.

[8182KSKUSH]

Good luck bro! I understand the desire to educate the ignorant (I use that word in the literal sense, not in a demeaning way). This is a really important issue, in the macro sense, mis-leading folks into believing in this totally faith based myth, is actually an attempt to reign in and destroy us, America. IMO. If these numb-nuts, get their way, their ideal, life as we know it would be destroyed. So trying to educate the easily influenced as to the facts is a good thing. I know that I had started a thread on this very topic many many moons ago. I am here to tell you, there are some true believers that will never allow themselves to hear anything that contradicts their narrow world view, you will never convince them no matter what. Some will be open to discussion, and those are the minds that you may change.
I would like to point out today the way we live is way far superiour to the way the 3rd world lives as far as the "impact" on the environment. When's the last time you saw piles of horse shit in the streets from all those clean, green horse drawn buggies. When's the last time you say piles of fire at every home, burning all sorts of nice things out in the open for warmth and light? Never mind doing it in an enclosed hut, and sleeping w/ it day in and day out. There is a reason life expectancy is higher than it ever has been in our country, technology, advancement of our society. The very things these shiny turds would have you all believe are ruining the planet. If an oil tanker spilled off the coast of Somolia, do you think they could clean it up? Do you think years later people would be able to walk on those same beaches and watch wild animals thriving as they always have?
Can anyone explain how man made co2 emissions are causing other planets in our solar system to warm? I assume that is what accounts for the global warming on Mars correct? Can someone explain the percent of CO2 in our atmosphere as compared to other gases, and then explain exactly how that is affecting our climate? Why isn't the upper atmosphere warmer than the surface?
When I was a kid in public indoctrination institutions, I was told that by the time I was 30, the rain forrests would all be gone! Scary huh? Sat images show there are more today than there were 25 years ago. Still waiting for all the fish in the ocean to disappear as well LOL! Oh, don't forget the hole in the O-zone, and the polar ice caps which are melting, then re-forming, then melting, then re-forming, as they have done for thousands of years. Notice how the news isn't covering that anymore? Wonder why? LOL Can anyone explain the fact that Al's famous graph actually shows CO2 amounts in the atmosphere rising as a result of increase temps, as opposed to what he claims, that co2 increases and causes temps to increase? Hello? Just try it at home, boil some water on the stove, then get a pot of water and just exhale on it alot, see which one shows a temp increase in relation to a co2 increase! LMAO
People are so damn gullable, as long as someone wears a suit and tie, they will believe anything!
Like I said Jag, good luck, I have been there, done this, it just spiraled into a long ass thread that eventually led nowhere. At some point, no doubt some douche will come along and no matter how out of context, they will make the famous Bush/Hitler comparisson, I also predict you will be called multiple names for simply stating objective facts, simply because they do not jive w/ what so many have been told to believe.

[JaggedEdge]

Can anyone explain how man made co2 emissions are causing other planets in our solar system to warm? I assume that is what accounts for the global warming on Mars correct?

I had heard people mention that as well, I had assumed they were being sarcastic though. I figured no one could actually believe the warming of Mars could support man-made global warming on earth, but the more I think about it I can see how some people would view it as support.

It actually suggests that our climate change is in fact due do solar activity, rather than man made CO2.

In regards to the rain forest, I love the South Park episode about that issue, "Getting gay with kids is here, save the rain forest, spread some cheer..." The teacher and students get lost in the rain forest, attacked by indigenous species, and captured by a local tribe. By the end the hippie teacher was calling for the destruction of all rain forests.

The point is, people support environmental objectives without even knowing anything about what they are trying to protect.

[Garrett]

CO2 has gone off the charts with the temperature following the exact same path. CO2 is a greenhouse gas which helps create heat on our surface helping melt the polar ice caps. While the ice caps are getting smaller the amount of the ocean taking light and warmth is greater. Everything is working together to create "global warming". And yes the sun is playing a huge factor in the warming but everything added up just makes sense.

Global warming isnâ??t going to happen overnight ( I hear a lot of people in Oklahoma always saying " Itâ??s cold outside in March! global warming isnâ??t real or else it would be warm!" ) Global warming is happening over the span of a large scale.

Donâ??t just look at one scientist who doesnâ??t believe in global warming. I will take the majority and the hard evidence of everything playing in a key part

I respect peoples personal opinions, however I dislike it when they preach/bash on the things they donâ??t agree with...

[JaggedEdge]

CO2 has gone off the charts with the temperature following the exact same path. CO2 is a greenhouse gas which helps create heat on our surface helping melt the polar ice caps. While the ice caps are getting smaller the amount of the ocean taking light and warmth is greater. Everything is working together to create "global warming". And yes the sun is playing a huge factor in the warming but everything added up just makes sense.

Global warming isnâ??t going to happen overnight ( I hear a lot of people in Oklahoma always saying " Itâ??s cold outside in March! global warming isnâ??t real or else it would be warm!" ) Global warming is happening over the span of a large scale.

Donâ??t just look at one scientist who doesnâ??t believe in global warming. I will take the majority and the hard evidence of everything playing in a key part

I respect peoples personal opinions, however I dislike it when they preach/bash on the things they donâ??t agree with...

Yeah, you have made me so happy.

I'm sorry, was that not hard evidence? Or do you only look at evidence presented by certain people?

Also, most the of polar ice caps are getting thicker, only a small portion is melting. But by all means, I anxiously await your counter evidence...

By the way, it isn't one scientist. Did he create all those graphs? Did you even watch the video's or just skim through the post, get the gist, and decide nothing was going to change your mind?

By the way, I reposted the graph. Yup, clearly CO2 "is off the charts."

[JaggedEdge]

Here you go Garrett. Look over this site.

Taken from their "about us" page:

[QUOTEICE]CAP is not funded by large corporations that might benefit from the status quo but by private investors who believe in the need for free exchange of ideas on this and other important issues of the day. Our working group is comprised of members from all ends of the political spectrum. This is not about politics but about science.[/QUOTE]

The site.

Oh, and a list of some of the experts who contribute to the site as well as their credentials.

What was that about a one scientist. I anxiously await your response Garrett.

[Garrett]

Yeah, you have made me so happy.

I'm sorry, was that not hard evidence? Or do you only look at evidence presented by certain people.

Also, most the of polar ice caps are getting thicker, only a small portion is melting. But by all means, I anxiously await your counter evidence...

Ice caps getting bigger, give me a break..... Why do you think all of sudden many nature shows are taking about polar bears having a hard time. Anyways parts of my paper i wrote my senior year of highschool.

Many people have considered global warming as a natural trend rather than manmade acceleration of the climate to unnatural temperatures. According to Dr. Crichton, "We are also in the midst of a natural warming trend that began about 1850, as we emerged from a 400 year cold spell known as the Little Ice Age" (Inhofe). Al Goreâ??s book, â??An Inconvenient Truthâ?� sights that over the past 650,000 years, carbon dioxide has stayed below 300 parts per million. However, today carbon dioxide has risen to 385 parts per million due to emissions from humans around the globe. In addition, as carbon dioxide levels rise, the temperature follows suit as Al Gore states, â??when there is more carbon dioxide, the temperature gets warmer because it traps more of the sun's heat insideâ?� (Gore). Although many people continue to believe that global warming is a natural trend, scientists have provided hard evidence confirming the fact that as carbon dioxide raises, so does the temperature, and thus, as carbon dioxide increase the temperature becomes more abnormal as well.

The biggest contributors to global warming are the greenhouse gases; as they thicken our Earthâ??s atmosphere, it warms our planet. The atmosphere is made from greenhouse gases, which captures some of the sunâ??s rays in the atmosphere and allows the Earth to have a habitable environment. However, today the Earthâ??s atmosphere is being thickened with toxic carbon dioxide as a direct result of the pollution from coal mines, power plants, cars, and the growing population of the world. As a consequence, the amount of carbon dioxide has surpassed the natural boundary of carbon dioxide from 300 parts per million to 385 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the Earthâ??s atmosphere (Gore). With higher concentrations of carbon dioxide in the Earthâ??s atmosphere, it becomes denser which leads to more of the sunâ??s rays being secured and detained in the air. As the Earthâ??s atmosphere becomes thickened by the amount of carbon dioxide in the air, the temperature raises parallel to the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earthâ??s environment. Carbon dioxide gas is the primary emission from the world and has a major impact on the Earthâ??s environment and human inhabitants.

Although carbon dioxide is the leading cause of global warming, the advanced countries are taking action to reduce the amount of abnormal and unregulated carbon dioxide introduced into the Earthâ??s air. Al Gore, the United States of America produces 5.60 tons of carbon emissions per person which is nearly double than any other country (Gore). However, many advanced countries are reducing the amount of carbon dioxide emissions as agreed upon in the Kyoto Treaty. The Kyoto Treaty aims to lessen the carbon dioxide emissions for advanced world countries as BBC says, â??The Kyoto Treaty commits industrialized nations to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, principally Carbon Dioxide, by around 5.2% below their 1990 levels over the next decadeâ?� (BBC). As the politicians seem to be ignore the crises, our country is blinded to the movement across the world on global warming according to Al Gore, â??There are only two advanced nations in the world that have not ratified Kyoto, and we are one of themâ?� (Gore). As more advanced countries become increasingly aware of the effect of carbon dioxide emissions, our nation should take the lead in helping to solve the problems that are caused by global warming.

Global warming is impacted by the Earthâ??s atmosphere; however, the oceans of the world are also having a major role in global warming process. The majority of the earth is covered by the oceans. The oceans absorb a large amount of the sunâ??s energy. Although the slight temperature increase is hardly noticeable, the effect on Greenland and South Antarctica can be disastrous. As the temperature of the oceans rise, the melting of ice on these land bases could cause a worldwide catastrophe. The melting of South Antarctica is merely taking place right in the center of the continent; many people thought it would refreeze. However, the melting ice is collecting as lakes under the ice and tunneling streams, called Moulins into the bedrock. The Moulin lubricates the ice and bedrock below making it possible for the ice to slide off into the ocean. Al Gore, if Greenland or South Antarctica were to break up and melt, or melted half their mass of the land-based ice, the world sea level would raise twenty feet and put many cities of over millions of people underwater (Gore). Warmer temperatures in the oceans and ice melting from global warming in the future could prove to be catastrophic to millions of people around the world.



You make me laugh if you really think the ice caps are getting bigger...

Time for COD5

[8182KSKUSH]

I will take the majority and the hard evidence of everything playing in a key part

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Could you just tell me who the "majority" is, SPECIFICALLY, and then tell me the "hard evidence". I am all for listening to anything really. But I can list specific numerous scientists that overwhelmingly disagree w/ man made global warming, and they aren't secretaries, at the u.n. that signed a paper, or scientists that study the nutritional value of Styrofoam peanuts, but REAL scientists that actually study the climate. You know, like the guy that founded the weather channel.:thumbsup:
I know one of the scientists that was part of the u.n. deal, was also an advocate in the 70's of "The Coming Global Ice Age Myth", now he's saying it's "Man Made Global Warming". Neat huh, someone should ask him where the hell that ice age went! LOL

Here's some reading for you.

Notice the similarities between the this immanent Armageddon and our current one. Then laugh out loud.

TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Another Ice Age? -- Jun. 24, 1974(ENVIRONMENTALISM BARF!!!)
TIME MAGAZINE ^ | June 24, 1974/2006 | Time Magazine
Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 5:47:34 AM by paltz
TIME MAGAZINE -1974
LINK TO 1974 ARTICLE
In Africa, drought continues for the sixth consecutive year, adding terribly to the toll of famine victims. During 1972 record rains in parts of the U.S., Pakistan and Japan caused some of the worst flooding in centuries. In Canada's wheat belt, a particularly chilly and rainy spring has delayed planting and may well bring a disappointingly small harvest. Rainy Britain, on the other hand, has suffered from uncharacteristic dry spells the past few springs. A series of unusually cold winters has gripped the American Far West, while New England and northern Europe have recently experienced the mildest winters within anyone's recollection.
As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.
Telltale signs are everywhere â??from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest.Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F. Although that figure is at best an estimate, it is supported by other convincing data. When Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and his wife Helena analyzed satellite weather data for the Northern Hemisphere, they found that the area of the ice and snow cover had suddenly increased by 12% in 1971 and the increase has persisted ever since. Areas of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, for example, were once totally free of any snow in summer; now they are covered year round.
Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds â??the so-called circumpolar vortexâ??that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world. Indeed it is the widening of this cap of cold air that is the immediate cause of Africa's drought. By blocking moisture-bearing equatorial winds and preventing them from bringing rainfall to the parched sub-Sahara region, as well as other drought-ridden areas stretching all the way from Central America to the Middle East and India, the polar winds have in effect caused the Sahara and other deserts to reach farther to the south. Paradoxically, the same vortex has created quite different weather quirks in the U.S. and other temperate zones. As the winds swirl around the globe, their southerly portions undulate like the bottom of a skirt. Cold air is pulled down across the Western U.S. and warm air is swept up to the Northeast. The collision of air masses of widely differing temperatures and humidity can create violent stormsâ??the Midwest's recent rash of disastrous tornadoes, for example.

Sunspot Cycle. The changing weather is apparently connected with differences in the amount of energy that the earth's surface receives from the sun. Changes in the earth's tilt and distance from the sun could, for instance, significantly increase or decrease the amount of solar radiation falling on either hemisphereâ??thereby altering the earth's climate. Some observers have tried to connect the eleven-year sunspot cycle with climate patterns, but have so far been unable to provide a satisfactory explanation of how the cycle might be involved.
Man, too, may be somewhat responsible for the cooling trend. The University of Wisconsin's Reid A. Bryson and other climatologists suggest that dust and other particles released into the atmosphere as a result of farming and fuel burning may be blocking more and more sunlight from reaching and heating the surface of the earth.
Climatic Balance. Some scientists like Donald Oilman, chief of the National Weather Service's long-range-prediction group, think that the cooling trend may be only temporary. But all agree that vastly more information is needed about the major influences on the earth's climate. Indeed, it is to gain such knowledge that 38 ships and 13 aircraft, carrying scientists from almost 70 nations, are now assembling in the Atlantic and elsewhere for a massive 100-day study of the effects of the tropical seas and atmosphere on worldwide weather. The study itself is only part of an international scientific effort known acronymically as GARP (for Global Atmospheric Research Program).
Whatever the cause of the cooling trend, its effects could be extremely serious, if not catastrophic. Scientists figure that only a 1% decrease in the amount of sunlight hitting the earth's surface could tip the climatic balance, and cool the planet enough to send it sliding down the road to another ice age within only a few hundred years.
The earth's current climate is something of an anomaly; in the past 700,000 years, there have been at least seven major episodes of glaciers spreading over much of the planet. Temperatures have been as high as they are now only about 5% of the time. But there is a peril more immediate than the prospect of another ice age. Even if temperature and rainfall patterns change only slightly in the near future in one or more of the three major grain-exporting countriesâ??the U.S., Canada and Australia â??global food stores would be sharply reduced. University of Toronto Climatologist Kenneth Hare, a former president of the Royal Meteorological Society, believes that the continuing drought and the recent failure of the Russian harvest gave the world a grim premonition of what might happen. Warns Hare: "I don't believe that the world's present population is sustainable if there are more than three years like 1972 in a row."


Note the highlighted parts, LMFAO! Any of that sound familar!



TIME MAGAZINE -2006

to 2006 Time Global Warming Article


(Time.comexternal link) -- No one can say exactly what it looks like when a planet takes ill, but it probably looks a lot like Earth
Never mind what you've heard about global warming as a slow-motion emergency that would take decades to play out. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the crisis is upon us.
From heat waves to storms to floods to fires to massive glacial melts, the global climate seems to be crashing around us.
The problem -- as scientists suspected but few others appreciated -- is that global climate systems are booby-trapped with tipping points and feedback loops, thresholds past which the slow creep of environmental decay gives way to sudden and self-perpetuating collapse. That's just what's happening now.
It's at the north and south poles -- where ice cover is crumbling to slush -- that the crisis is being felt the most acutely.
Late last year, for example, researchers analyzed data from Canadian and European satellites and found that the Greenland ice sheet is not only melting, but doing so faster and faster, with 53 cubic miles draining away into the sea last year alone, compared to 23 cubic miles in 1996.
One of the reasons the loss of the planet's ice cover is accelerating is that as the poles' bright white surface disappears it changes the relationship of the Earth and the sun. Polar ice is so reflective that 90 percent of the sunlight that strikes it simply bounces back into space, taking its energy with it. Ocean water does just the opposite, absorbing 90 percent of the light and heat it receives, meaning that each mile of ice that melts vanishes faster than the mile that preceded it.
This is what scientists call a feedback loop, and a similar one is also melting the frozen land called permafrost, much of which has been frozen -- since the end of last ice age in fact, or at least 8,000 years ago.
Sealed inside that cryonic time capsule are layers of decaying organic matter, thick with carbon, which itself can transform into CO2. In places like the southern boundary of Alaska the soil is now melting and softening.
As fast as global warming is changing the oceans and ice caps, it's having an even more immediate effect on land. Droughts are increasingly common as higher temperatures also bake moisture out of soil faster, causing dry regions that live at the margins to tip into full-blown crisis.
Wildfires in such sensitive regions as Indonesia, the western U.S. and even inland Alaska have been occurring with increased frequency as timberlands grow more parched. Those forests that don't succumb to fire can simply die from thirst.
With habitats crashing, the animals that call them home are succumbing too. In Alaska, salmon populations are faltering as melting permafrost pours mud into rivers, burying the gravel the fish need for spawning. Small animals such as bushy tailed rats, chipmunks and pinion mice are being chased upslope by rising temperatures, until they at last have no place to run.
And with sea ice vanishing, polar bears are starting to turn up drowned. "There will be no polar ice by 2060," says Larry Schweiger, president of the National Wildlife Federation. "Somewhere along that path, the polar bear drops out."
So much environmental collapse has at last awakened much of the world, particularly the 141 nations that have ratified the Kyoto treaty to reduce emissions. The Bush administration, however, has shown no willingness to address the warming crisis in a serious way and Congress has not been much more encouraging.
Sens. John McCain and Joe Lieberman have twice been unable to get even mild measures to limit carbon emissions through a recalcitrant Senate.
A 10-member House delegation did recently travel to Antarctica, Australia and New Zealand to meet with scientists studying climate change. "Of the 10 of us, only three were believers to begin with," says Rep. Sherman Boehlert of New York. "Every one of the others said this opened their eyes."
But lawmakers who still applaud themselves for recognizing global warming are hardly the same as lawmakers with the courage to reverse it, and increasingly, state and local governments are stepping forward.
The mayors of more than 200 cities have signed the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, pledging, among other things, that they will meet the Kyoto goal of reducing greenhouse emissions in their own cities to 1990 levels by 2012. Nine northeastern states have established the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative for the purpose of developing a program to cap greenhouse gasses.


They aren't even original, they just think that people are stupid, and they recycle the bullshit every thirty or so years apparently. None of this is new. Just the people that are getting suckered now, they are new to it I guess.:jointsmile:

Notice in the first article, it was all but certain doom! Very scary! Many scientists all agreed, they had a "consensus", well as much as they do now I guess. BOOOO!
It's the BOOGY MAN RUN! TAKE COVER, WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE! AGHHHH!
I have no doubt, my son will be 30, and trying to convince the true believers that "No NO nO! We are not headed for an ice age! They said that man made global warming was going to wipe us all out 30 years ago remember!"
Or by then, maybe it'll be, the moon is going to fall out of the sky and land on the U.S., and it's all because of fossil fuels! LOL But I suspect the current bullshit pattern will continue to repeat itself.



I have no doubt.:thumbsup:

[JaggedEdge]

You argued that I was wrong because I was looking at one scientist, yet in that paper, the only quotes you provide are from a politician. How exactly does that support your claims?

By the way, directly above this your last post I gave a very good site with a list of a lot of "scientists" who disagree with yourself and Al Gore. His Generation Investment Management private equity fund took a 9.5% stake in a company that has a one of the largest carbon credit portfolios in the world. Can you honestly believe he is an unbiased and credible source on the subject?

He is also the founder and chairmen of Generation Investment Management. Several sources claim they have major influence in carbon credit trading firms.

His companies site.

In regards to glaciers: from the icecap.us

Glaciers all over the world are shrinking because of global warming.

Braithwaite in 2002 in a paper â??Glacier mass balanceâ?� in the Journal Progress in Physical Geography reveals â??there are several regions with highly negative mass balances in agreement with a public perception of â??the glaciers are melting,â?? but there are also regions with positive balances.â?� Within Europe, for example, he notes that â??Alpine glaciers are generally shrinking, Scandinavian glaciers are growing, and glaciers in the Caucasus are close to equilibrium for 1980-95.â?� And when results for the whole world are combined for this most recent period of time, Braithwaite notes â??there is no obvious common or global trend of increasing glacier melt in recent years.â?�
Dr. Tim Patterson writes about Canadian glaciers that researchers from the University of Calgary and the University of Western Ontario have shown that glaciers in the Lake Louise area and at the Athabaska Icefields have receded far above their present limits in the past. We should consider the conditions that cause glaciers to advance and retreat. Obviously, climate warming will cause melt-back of the toe of a glacier (retreat). The cause for advance is primarily increased snowfall at the top of a glacier (the accretion zone). The pressure of the new glacial ice at the top of the glacier will cause the glacier to start flowing downhill more rapidly than the toe is melting; hence, the advance. Cooler temperatures without the increase in snowfall will probably not halt the retreat. It is possible to have a retreat with cool temperatures and low precipitation, and it is possible to have an advance with warm temperatures and heavy snowfall. It has been recorded in the literature that waxing and waning of glaciers all over the world is a common occurrence and that any reference to this being an abnormal thing, due to Global Warming depends on selectively gathered â??evidenceâ?�. This has been remarkably well illustrated in New Zealand in 2004 with the rapid advance of glaciers in the South Island with the only climatic change being very heavy precipitation.

By the way, you see the title "Dr." before their names, that means they are generally a credible source. Granted there are exceptions, however anyone is better than quoting a politician on scientific matters.