| godf said: Fact 1: Greenhouse gasses do increase the ammount of heat from the sun the earth retains. We don't know precisely how much an increase in their levels will increase temperatures, but we do know it will have some effect. Fact 2: Human activity has increased the ammount of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. Energy production, and modern farming techniques have been pumping ever increasing ammounts of greenhouse gasses into our atmosphere. Fact 3: We don't know precisely what affect these emmissions are having, but almost all scientist believe they will lead to increasing global temeratures, and these temperature rises have been observed. Fact 4: Until the last few years, heavily polluting industries have tried to cover up any evidence of global warming. Fact 5: Extremist environmentalists hope to use global warming as a way a dramatically altering the shape of society, in ways that go far beyond the need to contain global warming. Fact 6: Until recently, conservative Evangelicals in America insisted global warming need not be addressed, as God wouldn't allow somthing so serious to happen. It was also common for American conservatives to try to insist all scientists calling for action on global warming were European Communists trying to hold America back. Fact 7: Tony Blair, described global warming as 'the most serious threat humanity now faces'. He's not a radical communist trying to hold America back. Fact 8: I'm bored of typing these out. Fact 9: America pollutes more per capita than any other nation on earth. It's going to have a hard time convincing developing nations whose per capita pollution rates are half their's that they need to cut back too. |
Fact 1: water vapor is the biggest contributer to global warming. And is the earth's most significant green house gas.
fact 2: man has little to no effect on water vapor. In fact it's been estimated that mans contribution to greenhouse gas is .26% so we've been ignoring the other 99.74%
fact 3: almost all scientists don't agree on anything. When the UN came out with their list of scientists, many many many of them have protested their name being on the list, and many others we later found to be not actual scientists.( this is backed on in the film I've mentioned eariler and in many other news reports)
fact 4: decades ago the coal industry was striking the oil industry had embargos, and nuclear power while feared was considered the only viable option. Global warming became a politically endorsed agenda to back the nuclear power industry.
fact 5: extermist enviromentalists have called humans a plague, and think we should stop having children.
fact 6: Environmentlists and supportors of global warming have accused any scientists that have been skeptical of global warming of getting money from the oil industry. many of the reputable scientists have been outraged by this false accusation. So name calling occurs on both sides of this debate. However it's only been the supporters of global warming who have gone so far as to publicly demand people lose there job for being skeptical. the head of the weather channel said weathermen who don't believe in man made global warming should be fired.
fact 7: Tony Blair is a politician, telling people what they want to hear.
Fact 8: I'm bored now too.
However I think we both demonstrated that you can go on forever in this debate. But I'll make a prediction. 10-20 years from now we won't be talking about global warming(maybe sooner). Most of my own skeptisism comes from how politically charged the issue has been, and secondly I never believe scientists about anything. They are always changing their mind saying how they got it wrong. I am an avid science reader, and almost every article is a correction of past theories. most of what we were taught in school has now been changed, it's almost insane how ignorant we are as a scientific society, that it kills me to see the snobery that infests the scientific world.
