Do you buy into all the hype surrounding global warming?

There are hundreds of scientists that dispute the latest theories. Asked by Apeman 58 months ago Similar questions: buy hype surrounding global warming Environment.

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I do, mostly. I don't believe it is all hype. In fact, I haven't seen anything I would call hype (but I don't watch tv news, and I am very picky about what I read.(I get my news from NPR, Scientific American, the New York Times, the Columbia Journalism Review, and the New York Review of Books, which is my favorite.

They all certainly have their flaws and biases, but I have not seen any hype about global warming in those sources. ) There may be hundreds of scientists that dispute various theories, or parts of the theories. They also dispute whether measurements are done well, what they mean, etc.But virtually no scientist disputes the fact that global warming does exist and is occurring now.

What they argue about is how fast it is happening, how bad it will get, how much released methane will accelerate the process, etc. There is consensus about the fact of it, there is dispute about the details. What I have read about global warming has generally been very well supported, very concrete, and made by people who have no vested interest in claiming global warming exists. That is the minimum I would expect from responsible journalism.

For example, it appears that certain plants that live close to the poles are evolving to adapt to longer summers and shorter winters. Their flowering and seeding cycle is controlled by genes. And sure enough, they have begun to flower earlier.

I don't see how that could possibly be called hype. Here is another example: aspen trees have been dying all over the Rocky Mountain region for no reason that anybody can see. But they have been dying in places that global warming computer models predict would have changed temperatures or humidity.

It isn't known for sure if global warming is causing those deaths, but it seems likely. How is that hype? On the other hand, all the statements that I have seen denying or scoffing at global warming have been made either by people who have a vested interest in denying it, or who have no particular knowledge of the subject.

Many business interests would tend to deny it, because admitting it exists would mean they might have to change the way they do things, and possibly increase their costs. For example, a steel mill might have to move away from coal-fired furnaces. (To be fair, many business interests strongly support energy conservation and greenhouse gas control.

) In particular, automotive, petroleum, coal and energy interests would be unhappy if people were more aware of global warming. Further, scientists do have a vested interest of sorts. They all want to tear each other down.

If somebody can prove a piece of "knowledge" is wrong, that is a definite achievement and that means recognition, prestige, tenure, etc.But the biggest reward would be knowing that they had helped maintain the quality of humanity's total knowledge about the world. Scientists are trained to be skeptical, to think critically, and to find flaws. So they test each other, constantly.

Every new reading, experiment, finding, etc. Is taken apart and searched for errors. No experimental findings are accepted until it has been repeated independently, more than once. I have seen a scientist present a paper and get grilled, intensely, for hours about it, in a totally impersonal way.

I would have been screaming. But for them, it was normal and expected. The fact that global warming is generally accepted means that thousands of scientists, worldwide, all with the explicit goal of finding flaws in the conclusion, have all looked at the evidence carefully and accepted it.

They are much smarter and better informed than you, me, and all the politicians, pundits, commentators, and tv stars that people rely on for information nowadays. That is good enough for me. Further, even if the evidence for it were less than completely solid, the potential consequences are so dire that to me, it is worth thinking about some ways to prevent it.

Nobody knows for sure that they will get struck by lightning, but everybody knows not to stand under a tree in a storm..

Those scientist are paid by corporations. There are THOUSANDS that say it's real Without even posting any web links or doing any more research,I can say that there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that it exists. Carbon dioxide IS a greenhouse gas.

UV radiation passes through it and enters our atmosphere. The UV then bounces back and again comes into contact with the CO2in the upper atmosphere. At this point it doesn't have enough "energy" to penetrate the CO2 layer.

This causes the UV to bounce back and forth beteween the Earth and the CO2. CO2 is emitted by burning fossil fuels and many other things that we do. Hence a climate change occurs.

The scientists that support as well as oppose agree that it is impossible to tell(right now) how much of this is natural warming and how much we've done. Ramafications include disruption of the oceanic flow(from desalinization,polar caps melting),many more weather anomolies such as the incresed occurance of El Nino type weather. That's the short list of things that ARE happening.

Look at how crazy the weather is getting! There is no denying that it is happening. We just need to assume some of the blame now.Do a web search of global warming in Google Scholar.

You won't find too many scholars that think it's not happening... Sources: Based on alot of research that I've done already BrainBuilder_is_gone's Recommendations The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism) Amazon List Price: $19.95 Used from: $12.26 Average Customer Rating: 3.0 out of 5 (based on 63 reviews) An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It Amazon List Price: $21.95 Used from: $9.00 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 283 reviews) Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming Amazon List Price: $32.95 Used from: $199.00 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 5 reviews) The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth Amazon List Price: $22.95 Used from: $2.95 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 73 reviews) The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity Amazon List Price: $29.00 Used from: $2.95 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 28 reviews) Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change Amazon List Price: $22.95 Used from: $2.95 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 26 reviews) Here is a small list of books that support what I said. There was one that seemed to dispute it out of all that I looked at. I didn't include that one.

Yep, the ones hired by big oil.... Same thing happened with cigarettes years ago. Big tobacco hired tons of scientists to tell you how safe smoking was for your health. Here's an article: ucsusa.org/" rel="nofollow">ucsusa.org/ Sources: ucsusa.org/" rel="nofollow">ucsusa.org/ simpsons4ever's Recommendations An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It Amazon List Price: $21.95 Used from: $9.00 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 283 reviews) An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming Amazon List Price: $23.00 An Inconvenient Truth.(Movie review): An article from: Cineaste Amazon List Price: $9.95 Al Gore Saves the universe.(Albert Gore Jr.)('An Inconvenient Truth'): An article from: The American Enterprise Amazon List Price: $9.95 .

One group of scientists say how awful it is. (See Gore, Al) and some are saying how it is inconsequential. And both back it up with data.

Who is true? I don't know.So live this way (I get this, more of less, from the Bible): Be a good steward of what you have been given. Don't use more than you need, but use all you need to use (not WANT).

Because an accounting is coming where someone will ask how we did with what we have been given. For the religious, we believe this is God. For the non-religious, well, we might be back to Al Gore.

Sources: My answer .

1 simpsons4ever, regarding your answer "Yep, the ones hired by big oil....": I't not the same thing at all! There are hundreds of scientists that are being ignored, disregarded and shunned because this is the hot button topic right now, and if you disagree with them and follow the consensus then your out to lunch. Here is just one of many articles that help my point.

canadafreepress.com/2006/harris061206.htm .

Simpsons4ever, regarding your answer "Yep, the ones hired by big oil....": I't not the same thing at all! There are hundreds of scientists that are being ignored, disregarded and shunned because this is the hot button topic right now, and if you disagree with them and follow the consensus then your out to lunch. Here is just one of many articles that help my point.

canadafreepress.com/2006/harris061206.htm.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.