Yes or No: Do you believe in man made “climate change “?

Scientist in America wrote:

I am a US based scientist who works on molecules such as ozone, CO2, methane etc.

I find the contrasts seen in this society amazing. There are the willfully ignorant and the truly ignorant, but also intelligent thoughtful people. I know Americans who are physically active, and speak a second language. It does suck to live amongst a majority of slobs and fools.

So, yes or no? You didn't answer the survey.

Sorry, yes. I'm not used to talking to people who would question the basics of it.

didn't answer the survey wrote:

Scientist in America wrote:

I am a US based scientist who works on molecules such as ozone, CO2, methane etc.

I find the contrasts seen in this society amazing. There are the willfully ignorant and the truly ignorant, but also intelligent thoughtful people. I know Americans who are physically active, and speak a second language. It does suck to live amongst a majority of slobs and fools.

So, yes or no? You didn't answer the survey.

He doesn’t fit in with the intellent thoughtful crowd. So it’s either willfully or truly min going with truly.

FFF wrote:

Meanwhile, I'll trust science on this sort of stuff - including scientists who work for Exxon, who say mankind is responsible for over half of current earth warming.

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Man made climate change? Who cares.

Increasing world temperatures?

GREAT!!!!!!!!!! for the world with increased food production, expanding areas to reasonably live, and less electrical usage to run massive air cooling units.

I was at Target today, and noticed that most of their mannequins are oversized (I.e. chubby/fat). Just sayin.

No. These people are horrible scientists and bastardizing statistics and numerical analysis.

Yes.

I have large boulders in my back yard and so do many people in the North East US. Where did they come from? About 10,000 years ago this land was covered with ice! The ice ripped open the land exposing the boulders. Glacial boulders. Climate does indeed change but the real question is: Is man to blame?

100%.

"Believe" in it? No. It's a scientific proposition and not a question of belief.

Accept it as scientific fact? YES.

Scientist in America wrote:

I am a US based scientist who works on molecules such as ozone, CO2, methane etc.

I find the contrasts seen in this society amazing. There are the willfully ignorant and the truly ignorant, but also intelligent thoughtful people. I know Americans who are physically active, and speak a second language. It does suck to live amongst a majority of slobs and fools.

So what is your solution to halting this GLOBAL issue and the vast economic impact drastic action on climate change would require? Growing fuel would make food unaffordable for large percentages of the world causing mass starvation in marginalized countries. Mass production of solar panels and lithium ion batteries (for the necessary storage) would require large quantities of rare earth metals which would involve a whole lot of mining and would likely lead to places like China taking over more countries like Tibet to secure mineral resources. Higher energy prices would lead to more heat related illnesses and people freezing to death as poorer individuals would have their utilities cut, etc.

yjdrw wrote:

I have large boulders in my back yard and so do many people in the North East US. Where did they come from? About 10,000 years ago this land was covered with ice! The ice ripped open the land exposing the boulders. Glacial boulders. Climate does indeed change but the real question is: Is man to blame?

How can we know the boulders were moved by glaciers or the land was covered in ice? If only there was a way to know such things.... then we might know. Until then I will get my knowledge from the educated people on this forum. They are the true heroes of the internet. Sharing their barely formed opinions with the world.

As a society, we must be diligent of everything we do and it's effects.

I am thinking of ordering a pizza from a pizza joint about 1 and 3/4 miles away.

I could walk there I suppose but it's rather late and I covered likely 4 miles this morning.

The greenhouse gases from the delivery will go into the atmosphere.

I don't necessarily see it as a negative event.

It would be better if my delivery included at least one other order.

I still am hungry and want to eat.

I am no politician.

I am just aware.

If I order pizza a few times in a week, does that make me a bad guy?

I use public transit and walk everywhere else.

Before recently ordering a pizza on September 20 and 22, I last ordered one on August 23.

That's a significant break of pollution.

I also might fry an egg and forget the pizza for tonight altogether.

Greg wrote:

If I order pizza a few times in a week, does that make me a bad guy?

Yes.

Gimme a break.

I go lengthy periods without ordering, as I said.

Pizza tonight it is.

Easy decision.

It's a scientific fact that there was an ice age 10,000 years ago. Ice covered much of the eastern US. That wasn't too long ago in the history of the earth. What we could be seeing now is something similar; not necessarily man made. I didn't say it wasn't but as George Carlin the comedian pointed out to the effect "The earth has been through a lot. You think some plastic bags.... are going to destroy it?".

yjdrw wrote:

It's a scientific fact that there was an ice age 10,000 years ago. Ice covered much of the eastern US. That wasn't too long ago in the history of the earth. What we could be seeing now is something similar; not necessarily man made. I didn't say it wasn't but as George Carlin the comedian pointed out to the effect "The earth has been through a lot. You think some plastic bags.... are going to destroy it?".

Oh good grief!

1) No, what we are seeing now is definitely man made. The facts related to CO2 emissions, CO2 concentrations and the heat retaining properties of CO2 are all matters of fact. We are measuring the impacts and seeing them being consistent with what should be expected wrt rising CO2 levels. We are not simply noticing that the Earth is warming and wildly speculating that maybe humans have something to do with that. If you don't understand this please try to educate yourself. If you are unwilling to educate yourself then please stop spewing out your ignorance as if it should hold equal weight to informed opinions.

2) No, the Earth is not going to be destroyed. That is a ridiculous straw man. The climate of the Earth may well change substantially enough to have extremely large scale negative impacts on humans. Cute jokes about plastic bags are cute but idiotic.

I didn't say at all that I didn't believe in man-made global warming. In fact I know for sure that industry does at times damage the environment. Close to where I live there was a large factory and the pristine forest next to it was turned into black soot! Now I think the forest has regrown as they did some work on it but yes man can definitely wreck havoc on our precious environment. I ride a bicycle as my major form of transportation. I hope that helps.

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Medussah wrote:

You’re also all fat and dumb.

odd that we could run the world that way

*You* don’t run the world, your psychotic leaders run it. The rest of you are fat, dumb, brainwashed and puppets to those “leaders”. Lol