you know, there are other reasons to go green besides global warming.
how about polution? the leading cause of death in China is respiratory disease from coal smoke.
Originally posted by: dbunder
Don't believe in the global warming theory for a second. I'm by no means a conspiracy theorist or anything of the sort, but I think it's just silly propaganda to tell us that we're being naughty and wasting natural resources.
Originally posted by: ericlp
Originally posted by: Vic
Originally posted by: Forsythe
Originally posted by: sandorski
Global Warming is very real, you should be afraid. <<<<<<FACT
As to the global warming issue itself, that is really much ado about nothing. The earth warms and cools in a cyclical pattern and has done so for long before humans ever existed on it. 200 years ago, it was a cold cycle. Now, it's warmer. The geological history of the earth is full of natural disasters of nearly unimaginable proportions, 99.999% of which took place before humans. If anything, our current times are extremely peaceful from a natural perspective.
Pssst... Hey buddy, the earth really is over 1000 years old!!!!
Yeah, The Changes in climate have been in a cycle... A very "SLOW!!!" Cycle, were talking about millions of years for this to happen, not 10 years... Now it happening faster and faster...
Hmmm, Global Warming?
Uhh... right. Did you know that Eugene-Springfield was repeatedly flooded 400 feet under water some 15,000 years ago? Text That was global warming then too... not at all slow and completely without human intervention. You might want to educate yourself.
How can you so casually overlook two other aspects of the cycle?Originally posted by: Vic
Moving on, I find the deeper psychological aspects of the CO2 argument to be very amusing (in a twisted sort of way). As CO2 is essentially what every human exhales, you're basically telling people that their breath stinks and you wish they'd stop breathing. Please... lead us by personal example.
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: Davan
Topic Title: Who believes the hype of global warming?
Wheres the emergency?
Obviously you don't believe it and you don't live on the coast so you don't see the Ocean levels rising.
Enjoy
Originally posted by: Drift3r
Originally posted by: Davan
Originally posted by: Drift3r
Originally posted by: Davan
"Sea level has been rising naturally since the end of the last ice age and this has not accelerated recently. The total rise has been over 120 metres and is still proceeding at a rate of about 18 cm per century. We don't see an increase in this rate during the strong warming that took place between 1900 and 1940 nor did the rate decrease when the climate cooled between 1940 and 1975."
http://www.envirotruth.org/myth6.cfm
Half a foot in 100 years! Run for the hills!
National Center for Public Policy Research....Next time try to pick site that is not part of a network of sites that are backed by a organization with a political and corporate agenda.
Who do you work for? They pay you right? Do they decide how you think? Do they tell you what to believe, what religion you are, and what you can do in your spare time?
Dont bash scientists because they have to have money to live. Bash the **DATA** (if you even have the background to do so.)
If the facts you gathered were from a neutral site devoted to research and not a site with a clear political agenda you'd have a point. I supposed you believed tobacco industry paid scientists and doctors when they said that smoking did not lead to cancer ?
Originally posted by: LemUUU
global warming does exist, it is nowhere near as significant as some people make it out to be, but those people (for example our president) who say it does not exist are saying that out of sheer ignorance.
Global warming however is the least of our worries, I would be more worried about a crazy group of radical extremeists getting ahold of a few nuclear bombs and starting a nuclear winter, then we would have global chilling ... or us completely devoiding the world of any usable resources, but none of this will happen in our lifetime well I guess the bomb theory is a possibility...
I do however find it strange that after hundreds of years the average trajectory of hurricanes has changed so abruptly, but this could be due to weather patterns that were never recorded because there were no people to record them, or that they never saw a reason to track every single storm...
Originally posted by: ECUHITMAN
I used an example of a website that is using junk science to push their ideas and beliefs on the people Competitive Enterprise Institute and they have this great FAQ about Global Warming. This is the best part:
Global Warming FAQ: What Every Citizen Needs to Know About Global Warming
by Iain Murray
May 16, 2006
Overview. Alarm over the prospect of the Earth warming is not warranted by the agreed science or economics of the issue. Global warming is happening and man is responsible for at least some of it. Yet this does not mean that global warming will cause enough damage to the Earth and humanity to require drastic cuts in energy use, a policy that would have damaging consequences of its own. (emphasis added)
So it seems that a website that suggests Global Warming is not that big of a deal and people are over reacting admits that Global Warming is happening and man is at least partly responsible. The crux of the issue is the economics of fixing the problem. Big business does not want to spend their money making their factories more environmental sound. And that is the single most important point about Global Warming.
Originally posted by: Skanderberg
I live on an island that is hit by more Typhoons (hurricates to those of you in the Weatern hemisphere) than any other on the planet...and last year we had ZERO hit us. Where is the increase you speak of???