Is the idea that man's CO2 is causing "Global Warming" nothing more than a political tool?

Question

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4860344067427439443&q=global+warming+or+global+governance&ei=WTgRSOWABIGQrALBq_W0Ag&hl=en

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Answer 1

Yep. It is a well-funded hoax. An artificially inflated crisis designed to frighten the people of the world further into submission.



CO2 is less of a greenhouse gas than water vapor (so should we tax clouds as well?), and moreover, humans are responsible for less than 3% of the total CO2 in the atmosphere.



From the 1940's until the 1980's, the Earth experienced a significant cooling period, despite the fact that industrial production and release of CO2 vastly accelerated during this time.



It is only erroneous computer generated models that suggest CO2 causes global warming, and such programs were created by "scientists" whose funding is contingent upon their ability to "prove" the hypothesis of man-made global warming. On the other hand, ice core samples (collected in REALITY) have proven that CO2 levels are actually driven by global climate change, not the other way around.



The Earth is currently in a cooling cycle. Look it up. More CO2 just means MORE PLANTS! CO2 is GOOD! This isn't just basic science, it should be common sense! I can't believe how gullible some people are...

Answer 2

if I haven't totally lost my mind - the Irish Potato famine was due to what later was determined by scientists to be a warming trend, yep found the link in 1845- 1849 a warm wet trend allowed a blight to thrive. I knew I had read that somewhere.

http://www.victoryseeds.com/news/irish_famine.html



But besides that famine- what about the dinosaurs? What caused them to go extinct? Or any other species that is no longer on earth for that matter? Changes in our environment.



Man has evolved through the millennium due to changes in our environment that is undeniable- what makes folks think that nothing will change geologically unless man is responsible when long before history was recorded the Earth was changing not only the climate but the very geography?



I mean people really need to realize that we are not the center of the universe- long before man was a defining force in world events the world changed.

Answer 3

I think so. Many of the top scientists that have been listed as being a part of this "global warming" scam have requested to be taken off that list. They say that from their research C02 levels are related to temperature changes only in that they go up after the temp goes up. You see, the temperature goes up first. So the "greenhouses gases" goes up afterwards. They are not the cause.



These "top scientists" say that the sun is the true culprit. They say that it's the sun's activity that is causing our global temp to rise.



Let me refer you to this live science article.



http://www.livescience.com/environment/070312_solarsys_warming.html



The Earth is not the only planet that is getting warmer. Mars, Pluto and other worlds in our solar system are getting warmer as well. I don't think human beings could possibly be blamed for that!

Answer 4

Yes.



The problem is that the available data shows that CO2 levels increase AFTER temperature increases, not before. Higher temperature causes increased CO2, not the other way around.



The central idea of the global warming theory is a lie.

Answer 5

I have emailed 3 of the most knowledgeable climatologists who back the man made global warming belief.



I have asked all three to expain how over millions of years the earth has gone into ice ages(large and small) and how the earth warmed it's way SEVERAL degrees coming out of each one....for example the earth has warmed some 16 degrees F since the last ice age.



This all occurred before the first car or industrial plant. So, if can get this straight, it was possible for the earth to warm several degrees without man's help several times over the years. But, the warming between 1974 and 1998 had to be caused by man?



I'm tired of the hyperbole on both sides of this...I want facts. And I can't seem to get a solid answer about the earth's previous warming and how it fluctuated so many degrees before we were adding C02.

Answer 6

I do not believe that man is causing global warming. Scientists have already discovered that there were previous periods of global warming followed by ice ages. I see our situation as that of a pendulum. It has a slow swing that goes from ice age, through a normal period, and finally into a warming period. It then swings back rapidly to the ice age. What I see is that man is intensifying the swing through the warming period. As a result, the return to the ice age will be far more severe. The key thing is that global warming is a natural phenomenon. We are just making it worse.

Answer 7

It is a political tool and nothing more than an excuse to raise or add taxes on people who are already stretched to the limit financially. It's about control. Obama wants the USA to be a nanny state, so hang on to your kids and don't punish them or they will be taken away and you as a new mother will be forced to pay several thousand dollars because of the "carbon footprints" the child has.



FAKE! This global warming is all a big lie to stifle progress and technology.

Answer 8

Clearly, global warming has become a funding train for climate scientists and everyone else trying to hitch a ride. As one of the guys pointed out, if you suggest some climate catastrophe, it becomes easy to look around the world for anecdotal evidence. I work with several geologist (environmental consultants) and interestingly, not a single one of them believes that humans are responsible for harmful warming and two are extremely liberal which I must admit surprised me a bit since it is so often believed based on political beliefs. I think geologist have a greater tendency to look at history and not just the last 30 years. 30 years is a blip in time to a geologist. When you start focusing on short time intervals, it is easy to be mislead.

Answer 9

Yes, it is a trojan horse that is being used by politicians, the UN, the Council on Foreign Relations and others to get the people of the world to subject themselves to a one world socialist government..

Answer 10

Yes.

Answer 11

Yes, and the founder of the Weather Channel agrees.

Answer 12

yes it is a political tool. Climate change is a normal process; temperatures have increased and decreased for the entire history of the earth. We are in a warming phase now, which will be followed by a cooling phase.

Answer 13

I think you are onto something here. We should start selling carbon credits to guilt ridden liberals, lol, hahahahahahahahaha

Answer 14

how will tax on any of these things stop global warming e.g. tax on fuel.



people will still need their cars to travel to work

Answer 15

fed up , why is it taking 20 minutes for your questions to hit my email?

Answer 16

No, it's proven science. These guys are hardly interested in a scheme to tax people.



"Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich challenged fellow conservatives to stop resisting scientific evidence of global warming"



"National Review (the most prestigious conservative magazine) published a cover story calling on conservatives to shake off denial and get into the climate policy debate"



"Pat Robertson (very conservative Christian leader) 'It is getting hotter and the ice caps are melting and there is a build up of carbon dioxide in the air. We really need to do something on fossil fuels.”



"I believe there is now more than enough evidence of climate change to warrant an immediate and comprehensive - but considered - response. Anyone who disagrees is, in my view, still in denial."



Ford Motor Company CEO William Clay Ford, Jr.



"The science of global warming is clear. We know enough to act now. We must act now."



James Rogers, CEO of Charlotte-based Duke Energy.



JR F - The climate has changed before, mostly due to changes in solar radiation. This time the data shows it's mostly due to us. How do we know it's not the Sun this time? We measure the Sun.



"Recent oppositely directed trends in solar

climate forcings and the global mean surface

air temperature", Lockwood and Frolich (2007), Proc. R. Soc. A

doi:10.1098/rspa.2007.1880



http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/media/proceedings_a/rspa20071880.pdf



News article at:



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6290228.stm

Answer 17

No, it's science. No offense, but I'm not really interested in what some video on Google says. I care what climate scientists and their data say. What they show is that human CO2 emissions are causing the planet to warm. Summary of the evidence in the link below.

Answer 18

No, actually it's a scientific reality that we are causing the climate to warm and there will be significant consequences if we don't do anything in response to the warming.



There are always people that will use things as a political tool, but that doesn't mean what's being used isn't real. Politicians used the danger of cigarette smoking for political purposes, but surely you wouldn't deny that there really is a health risk to smoking?



You can learn a lot more about global warming by reading information from actual scientific research organizations that are studying the climate, than you'll get from propaganda movies:



NASA Global Warming Q&A

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/GlobalWarmingQandA/



The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Global Warming FAQs

http://www.ucar.edu/news/features/climatechange/faqs.jsp



Department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale Global Warming FAQ

http://earth.geology.yale.edu/~sherwood/index.cgi?page-selection=5



NOAA Global Warming FAQ

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html

Answer 19

It's not, and I don't have to watch your video to find this out. Scientists have been worried about global warming due to carbon dioxide for over 50 years. The first paper on it was in 1938, partially based on the work of John Tyndall in the 19th century. Global warming is not about government, it's about physics.



Governments make laws to govern people, but the laws of physics supersede them.

Answer 20

Yes. We should note that Mars atmosphere is 95% co2 or 320,000% greater than here on Earth yet temperatures are even colder than we first thought.



There is no relation between co2 and temperatures.

Answer 21

most definately.

Answer 22

Do you remember the hole in the ozone layer???

Answer 23

Sadly, you are incorrect. No one wants to believe that this crisis is happening. The only reason anyone thinks so is that we have been convinced by evidence.