You see, that's my problem with "your" way of thinking. I'm all for being liberal and considering religion as a possibility, but when it causes a person not to do something not "good" regardless of the facts, it's really frustrating.
First thing you have to realize is that I'm basing my opinion on my thoughts. Not religion. You think this global warming is all cut and dry and that people that don't agree with you must be crazy delusional not to see the "truth" of global warming. That's just not the case. There are people out there that choose to examine the facts more closely because adjusting for a global warming that doesn't actually exist can have equally devasting affects on the economies and welfare of people around the world.
It's that ability in the face of clear and obvious proof, you ignore it, and think "my idea" is better.
My opinion is that you are WAY to quick say clear and obvious. It may SEEM obvious to you but it's not that clearcut to many other people out there.
Not one serious scientist now thinks Global warming isn't a problem.
Regardless of what you think there are PLENTY of scientist, respectable scientists, that disagree with many of the global warming alarmists. And no... if a scientist doesn't agree with all of global warming it doesn't discount him/her as noit being a "serious" scientist. In fact around 20,000 scientists, of whom about 2,700 of them are physicists, geophysicists, climatologists, meteorologists, oceanographers or environmental scientists, who are in a position to understand the global warming issues, have signed the following statement:
There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.Source:
http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p37.htm.
Heat activated bacteria, and viruses are becoming more common, and appearing earlier each year.
This is the first I've heard of this. If this is happening could it not possibly be explained because we've had a fairly warm decade? Makes sense to me.
Droughts of unseen proportions are happening across the world (including here.)
Global precipitation has actually increased 1% per decade during the twentieth century. How do you explain that? Localized droughts does not equal global warming.
Rapid regional climate changes are occurring throughout the wold.
And they have for centuries. Such temperature changes in Greenland are related to the atmospheric circulation and would affect much of the Northern Hemisphere. Such rapid changes are indeed scary, but their deductions are based on their wrong interpretations of ice cores as a result of their assumption that the ice sheets are millions of years old
Ocean levels are rising.
They've been rising for 1000's of years. Just go look at all of the discovered underwater cities.
Air temperatures have risen.
Over the years measurement techniques of land and ship temperatures have changed. For terrestrial stations, the instrument shelters have changed locations, the type of thermometer has changed, the time of observation has changed and the microclimate around the shelter has changed. Man-made effects that are unrelated to increased.
Major Extinction level evens (hurricanes, tornadoes, cyclones, etc.) have increased in destruction.
It seems like many doomsayers believe all bad weather is caused by global warming. One of the problems with such misinformation is that people have short memories or do not read weather history. This stuff has happened for centuries. The only reason they are becoming more destructive is that our population areas are getting larger.
The Ice caps and glaciers are melting at enormous rates. I mean, look at the Larsen Ice Shelf a area of Antarctica the size of Rhode Island (a state) disappeared.
Yet the Anatartica area is actually COOLING. From about 1400 to 1880, the Little Ice Age occurred, in which practically
all the glaciers in the world advanced, whereas
now they are receding. At times people could ice skate on the Thames River in London, whereas that is unthinkable today. The Little Ice Age was likely caused by the combination of slightly less energy from the sun and more volcanism, both of which allow the surface of the earth to cool. There were periods during the Little Ice Age in which the sun exhibited few sunspots. Few sunspots cause a cooler solar temperature and less solar radiation because the stronger compensating effect of solar faculae is also reduced. Before the Little Ice Age, there was the Medieval Warm Period. So natural fluctuations in the past have been significant.
How can you not find this shocking? Sure you argue one point here, and there... but the big picture is there, and it's clearly undeniable.
I find it quite shocking that more people aren't questioning the data that Al Gore and his goons are putting out there. It can be deniable and it is by many.
Disclaimer: Many of the arguments above were taken from other sites. I'm just too lazy to give credit.
