Is Global Warming a Hoax?
Thursday May 15, 2008
As crazy as it may seem, some people think global warming is a hoax perpetrated by environmentalists who want to scare people into sending donations, or liberals who want to promote big government and more regulation. If you've ever encountered one of these hardcore skeptics and have found yourself lost for cogent arguments, be sure to read this article.
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We have had global warming since the ice age. If not then a lot of the U.S.A. would still be covered by a glacier. So I doubt we have much control over it. Lets just keep our air and water as clean as we can.
c’mon people. we can’t keep pulling natural resources out of the ground and pumping the waste into the air. the world was heading back to an ice age before the agricultural revolution started the current warming trend. scientific fact. btw loved the above-listed article!!
Larry West’s arguments are absurd. He cites governmentally sponsored entities’ “conclusions” as unbiased fact. That’s like asking an SS officer if he’s been torturing anyone. There IS global warming - because of increased solar output - NOT because of your SUV. Stop believing these eco-socialists like Larry West.
Thousands of scientists from more than 130 countries have reached consensus that global warming is accelerating and that, since about the mid-1700s, it has been caused largely by human activities. Name-calling doesn’t change that.
Agreed there is global warming by the sun and magma coming out of the ocean bottom and man has nothing to do with it. Because of the increase in temperature more co2 is being produced by the foress and oceans so when all the people say the co2 increase leads to global warming they are wrong. It’s just a big propoganda push for nuclear generation. Earth’s atmosphere is a layer of gases surrounding the planet Earth and retained by the Earth’s gravity. It contains roughly (by molar content/volume) 78% nitrogen, (normally inert except upon electrolysis by lightning[1] and in certain biochemical processes of nitrogen fixation), 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.04% carbon dioxide, and trace amounts of other gases, in addition about 1% water vapor.
Do you really think tha man’s small contrbutation to .04% co2 is making one bit of difference, when considering that 94% of all greenhouse gasses is water. You want to stop vaporation? Duh
No one can deny that the planet experiences natural, cyclic climate changes. No one can deny that CO2 traps heat out of proportion to its low concentration in the atmosphere. BUT: CO2 exerts 90% of its heat trapping by its first 30ppm, virtually all the remanng 10% is trapped by the next 270ppm, and no additional heat is trapped at all by levels above 450ppm. GW, as envisioned by the partailly educated IS a hoax.
We need to conserve fossil fuel because our society will change so drastically when it runs out, not because of its impact on GW.
I think global warming will come in 2010 and i’m in 7th grade iand get a’s haha
I always enjoy hearing the other side. However a lack of sources causes me to think you are just crazy people to go against what has been decided by so many reputable sources. If you can cite studies where you get your information so we can read and evaluate you’ll be much more convincing.
How’s this for starters:
http://brneuroscience.org/co2.html
Sorry, Ben. I gave you the wrong address. Try this:
http://brneurosci.org/co2.html
global warming is not a joke people think it is all in those scientists heads well it isn’t it is affecting the polar bears and a whole lot of other native species if it were up to me i would make it a law to have natural energy productents like water and wind they could take over and that would help the global warming stop that is my opinoin
Lets pretend for a moment that no one really knows the conclusive answer to this problem. Maybe global warming is caused by humans or maybe it isn’t or maybe its both. If you believe that global warming is caused by nature without the aid of mankind, fine; thats up to you and I would not argue that there’s a lack of evidence to support that. However, it should not be used as an excuse to run the environment into the ground for short term gains. Global warming aside, poor air quality, poor water quality, and severe loss of the natural habitat that we all enjoy is REAL. So, both sides need to quit using this issue as a distraction and start living like you give a damn, global warming or not.
The only solid logic for caring about the environment when speaking to skeptics is the bottom line. Saving the earth means saving money. Use CFLs save money, drive a hybrid save money, use solar save money,reduce water waste save money, recycle save money. I have given up on any other approach this one works the best.
Uhhhh this “Global Warmming” thing? the earth goes through cycles. This is a scientific fact. Should we take care of the earth? Yes! HOWEVER, this panic stricken sucker mentality, is foolish.
Stevv! Someone who knows science and is copmetant! Thank you!
I weight about 200 pounds. 0.04% of my weight is a little over an ounce. You don’t think there is a poison that could kill me if I ate an ounce of it? If not, I’ve got some very pretty mushrooms for you!
There are plenty of biological and chemical systems that are clearly susceptible to major shift and reaction by the addition of relatively slight amounts of key materials. Ice core studies show that CO2 concentrations are already higher than they have been in over 600,000 years - that’s many ice age cycles. The earth will soon be warmer than it ever has been since homo sapiens appeared.
Don’t worry too much Larry, the global warming-as-hoax flat-earthers come out of the woodwork with articles like yours. But most people accept the overwhelming evidence, even if they aren’t sure how to react to it yet. That’s where we should put most of our energy.
Your poison analogy does not fit the this example very well. Better to compare biological buffering systems: Nature has seen to it that the norm usually fits a buffer whose mid-point coincides to that norm, eg- bicabonate buffering blood, whose average pH is about 7.4, the same as the pK of bicab. This means fairly wide swings about that norm will swing back to the norm.
You’ve stretched the facts concerning historical atm CO2 levels: http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/GlobWarmTest/A6c.html Note that despite wide swings in CO2 over history, world temps have never gone above 22degC. One should not believe the propaganda of political hacks, but do some research of the facts on one’s own.
What really gets me about this proposition is the notion that the people who are perpetrating this lie are doing EXACTLY what they claim to be against. There are scientists at EPA, NASA and other institutions that have lost their jobs and had people with no scientific background edit their finding for no reason other than politics.
Sure there may be some money for research into climate change. There should be a lot more for something so important. But there are BILLIONS from special interests that want you to ignore it. Look at the contributers to these so called “skeptics”.
In contrast every major scientific institution has agreed that global warming is real, man made and a problem. So we either believe a bunch of oil and gas lobbyist or scientist from all over the world.
Thank you dean and Stevv. Man is like sheep….follow the leader….to slaughter.. Just heard the other day that “scientists” say there is a 50/50 chance the polar ice will melt away this year…. hmmmm… there is also a 50/50 chance the sun will burn up this year! Or, the stars will disappear… Science used to say the earth was flat too… use your heads people! Don’t accept every THEORY as FACT… Theory is nothing more than a GUESS…. NOT FACT… The day MAN can do ANYTHING that will affect the forces of nature will be a cold day in hell.
Being of average or above intelligence I decided to research global warming a while back. The strangest thing - normal science does not apply to the Global Warming Theory. Facts don’t matter, nor does evidence. Half truths, huge amounts of conjecuture, and numerous scare tactics line the trail of the global warming experts. Then hidding around every corner is a special interest group or politician.
The thing I find amazing is that suddenly “scientists have reached a concensus”? Are you kidding me?? (1)There is no concensus in scientific theory or investigation. It’s either a fact and can be proved and duplicated or it’s not, end of story. Strange that the most common place to find concensus is in politics… (2)It’s not true. There are thousands upon thousands of scientists that oppose global warming being “preached” as fact. The science is not behind the global warming theory, and a theory is …wait for it… an unproven hypothosis.. a guess.
Global Warming is not science…. it’s becoming a religion that fanatics are trying to get state sponsorship for.
Disagree with me? Do the math, the research, check it out for yourself. Facts are facts.
If the science were undisputed it would change my mind, but anyone that’s willing to look can see the gaping holes in global warming.
“Just the Facts, Mam.” (Not the inflated emotion.)
I guess being over 60 means that all those GLOBAL warming and cooling I went through was a figment of my mind. I remember the heat of fall in southern CA, I remember the snow and ice of summer also. Guess I was just mixed up,I thought that MOTHER NATURE was in charge not GOD. I didn’t know men were so powerful that they could affect the climate!
I am beginning to believe these advancers of the global warming hoax should be indicted and tried on charges of creating a false public mass hysteria. Enough of these kooks already !! When you talk to these GW kooks, logic and such goes out the window. You talk to them about sun spot activity, GW on other planets in our solar system, the earth’s warming and cooling history, etc and they look at you like zombies. This is the result of the hyteria West and others have created. They should be imprisoned.
Hey Larry,
Why is it that so many who are anti-environment and pro status quo read your column?
But then that’s what you’re here for right? No need to preach to the choir…
You guys who think smog is great and oil spills are pretty, can all go on and on about how perfectly fine everything is, cause we are here walking around behind you picking up your trash and using up our tax dollars and paying premium prices for virtually everything so corporations can pay for damages from polluted water tables etc.etc. just so you can have everything just as it is!
Keep talking Larry, maybe one of these guys will take off their rose colored glasses long enough to see the North Pacific Trash Vortex.
Global Warming is a hoax. The other planets are warming up right along with Earth, and I highly doubt that there are SUVs driving around Mars and Jupiter. The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. The APS is also sponsoring public debate on the validity of global warming science. So why the hoax? Because the elites, otherwise known as the Illuminati, needed to give the people of the earth a reason to come together under one cause. This cause will usher in a new world government and a one world religion. The green movement is nothing but Gaia worship. Look up the facts. Look up the connection the UN has to Theosophy. Look up the fact that our world leaders, George Bush included, is a member of the Bohemian Club and worship the deity Molech. Our government is more corrupt than anyone can imagine, and the Global Warming hoax is just one more facet of control they have over us.
Although I’m a skeptic, we must be fair. The APS didn’t actually change their editorial position on GW, although it has been erroneously reported as such. They did, in fact, call for more open discussion in their forum publication: http://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/200807/editor.cfm