Despite the best efforts of Al Gore and his legion of leftist alarmists, most Americans believe that global warming is a natural thing.
According to Rasmussen reports, only one out of three voters believe global warming is caused by human activity.
Forty-eight percent (48%) of all likely voters attribute climate change to long-term planetary trends, while seven percent (7%) blame some other reason. Eleven percent (11%) aren’t sure.
Most Democrats (51%) still say humans are to blame for global warming, the position taken by former Vice President Al Gore and other climate change activists. But 66% of Republicans and 47% of adults not affiliated with either party disagree.
With the Obama administration pushing for more initiatives and 100's of billions of tax payer dollars into clean energy, one could come to the conclusion that people are seeing a huge waste of their hard earned money being spent in the name of something that doesn't exist.
It has gotten so bad that most of these alarmists, including Al Gore, won't even debate the issue anymore, presumably because they will be shown as the charlatans that they are.
Now I'm all for clean energy, but this is not the economy to spend this kind of money in. Clean energy will take decades before it will really come into it's own and still won't prevent the need for fossil fuels.
By the way, did you know that Antartic ice is growing and not shrinking? Another shot for the alarmists...
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What a stupid premise you have. A meteor strike which wipes out a state would be a "natural" event also, but that doesn't make it good, economically beneficial, or a disaster whose impact could not be mitigated for that matter.
Also your conclusion about Antarctic ice is misleading since the person interviewed in the very article you provide, says, "I don't think there's any doubt [global warming] is contributing to what we've seen both on the Wilkins shelf and more generally in Antarctica..." Marginal growth of ice in areas of eastern Antarctica are more than compensated by losses elsewhere. Like many you ignore facts, detail, and any truth that gets in the way of your uninformed dogma.
"Like many you ignore facts, detail, and any truth that gets in the way of your uninformed dogma." Kind of how you ignored the fact the the ice loss is from magma activity beneath the ice, and caused by a local phenomenon, and not a global climate change. A meteor strike would only be mitigated if we in fact knew one was coming. Saying that climate change cause is not a necessary nugget of knowledge we must have, prohibits us from understanding the changes, and also prohibits any ability to predict any future changes. Any warming activity could easily be a hiccup precluding a global ice age. Wes simply don't have enough knowledge and facts to support any conclusion, so any attempt to solve "problems" with money is no better than flipping a coin.
"...presumably because they will be shown as the charlatans that they are."
They are not debating the cause, because the debate is over. Most of the scientific community agrees that global warming is happening and is being caused by man. When you can examine CO2 levels over the last 650,000 years and show extreme unnatural increases in the last 100 years, you stop wondering about the cause and start thinking of solutions.
It seems that many people like to believe that global warming is a natural phenomenon because that is the path of least resistance.
Allisos: "Kind of how you ignored the fact the the ice loss is from magma activity beneath the ice, and caused by a local phenomenon, and not a global climate change." Exactly my point, allisos, people like you ignore the scientific conclusions from the little you read, blithely tacking them onto your political agenda. Magma heat flow does not account for the scale of ice loss since it is a localized phenomena, - warming climate is observed on a far broader stage. For example, local crustal heat flux in one or two spots on one continent in one hemisphere can not account for the fact that terrestrial glaciers are in retreat worldwide, many of which have already completely disappeared. You also conveniently ignore the Arctic has undergone far more dramatic melting over the decades, even to the point of threatening to alter ocean currents. Your speculation about significance of an "ice age" is without rational basis since many of the newly lost glaciers took many thousands of years to develop in the first place in their natural cycle. Their melting has taken only one hundred years. For there to be a scientific debate, a mechanism for cooling needs to be proposed that can account for all the necessary changes that are observed in the geologic record, not just the one or two that happen to fit in with your political agenda. Whether deliberate human response can tweak or even reverse the course of warming is a legitimate debate, but your implicit conclusion is that it is already impossible and a waste of money is political dogma, not a scientific point of view.
Metropol, better start taking your pills.
Global wwarming is a natural thing because it has happened 4 times before that we know of in this intergalacial. We saw some of it in the 20's, 30's and 40's. Then we went through 30 years of cooling while C02 emissions were rising. That shows global warming is not caused by C02. As well as the fact that the ice core samples show that temperature rises before C02. Then there is the problem of the missing hot spot and the problem of decreasing global temperatures now when C02 levels are rising.
In all your rantings, you forgot one thing. There is no proof.
It is not about science with these alarmists. It is all about political control. The questions are scientific, but the UN answers are political. The global warming debate is hardly about science. It has become a cause célèbre, championed by activists, politicians and celebrities. To deny their belief that humans are the cause of global warming is to invoke their wrath. Science is not consensus; Science is theory, observation and measurement. Science is not, “let's all take a vote on the speed of light and see what number we get.” Science is dictated by nature's rules.
Don J. Easterbrook, Ph.D., emeritus professor of geology at Western Washington University, asked, "What does it take to ignore 10 years of global cooling, sharply declining temperatures the last couple of years, record setting lack of sun spots . . . failure of computer models to predict real climate, predictable warming and cooling climates for the past 500 years. The answer is really quite simple — just follow the money!"
Lord Monckton of Brenchley referred to alarmists as “bed-wetting moaning Minnies of the Apocalyptic Traffic-Light Tendency -- those Greens too yellow to admit they’re really Reds,”
@metropol you miss the point. If it is a natural cycle, which has happened many times, then there is nothing we can do about it. We cannot control the earth's weather, and we sure shouldn't be spending money like crazy to try to fix it.
@concerned "Most of the scientific community agrees that global warming is happening and is being caused by man." Uh, wrong. There are vast numbers of scientists that don't think this way. There are even scientists that have been misquoted in support of the cause and don't like it. It isn't a matter of least resistance, it is a matter of cause. Natural causes can't be stopped by human intervention. If they could we would have no hurricanes, no tornadoes, etc.
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