Do you think humans are helping cause Climate change?

[DarthVolod]

thismeintiel said:

DarthVolod said:

We could go back and forth about how much of the scientific community supports climate change, and how much dissents. The fact that there are scientists dissenting fromt the theory in the numbers they are is rather telling when it is almost always in their financial and professional interest to support climate change theory even if they don't believe in it.

Playing devil's advocate though I can imagine that even if humans did have a significant impact on climate change there is really not much we can do about it. Countries like China are rapidly building up an infrastruction and an expansive manufacturing ecnonomy which puts out a massive amount of CO2 in the process all while while laughing at countries like America that shoot themselves in the foot with absurd regulations which kill industry while making them ever more reliant on foreign countries for basic goods.

Unless there is some sort of Orwellian all controlling world government put in place there is no way you are going to stop progress in every country. The good news for climate change supporters is that fossil fuels are finite so we will eventually have to find alternatives ... although I still believe there is a lot of coal around so that will be there for awhile.

 

What I find funny about man made Global Warming supporters is that, for the most part, they support people on the left, be they actors or politicians, because of there supposed passion about this subject and resolve to change things.  One has only to look at these peoples lifestyles to see that they don't truly believe what they are preaching about.  If they did, they would be dropping their own carbon footprint.  Instead they fly around on private jets.  Own multiple mansions that suck up electricity.  Own multiple expensive cars that are most likely horrible on gas mileage.  They're basically playing people for fools, asking you to change your lifestyle, persecute companies, while they continue to live lavishly.  And Al Gore is one of the worst offenders.

Lol you just reminded me of the enviromentalist group on my campus that is always passing around tons and tons of flyers. Even if the paper is recycled, 80% of them end up on the ground somehwhere which gets litter all over our otherwise clean campus which ironically makesthem the greatest polluters at my college.

The lifestyles of big supporters of global warming like Al Gore always reveal their true beliefs. I remember the big rich environmentalist types had a meeting on climate change in Copenhagen a few years back with attendees from around the world. Would it not be better for the environment to hold that same meeting online or through a conference call instead of burning thousands of gallons of jet fuel?