"say Global Warming's A Myth!"

[fireheart17]

http://www.planetfeedback.com/build+...to+kids/322851

This lady, in all honesty, is pretty much nuts.

Your thoughts?

(cookies to whoever gets the title)

[Greenday]

Why people deny climate change, I have no idea.

[Boozy]

Why people deny climate change, I have no idea.

Because it's unpleasant, and people love to deny unpleasant things. It requires inconvenient lifestyle changes and it will be expensive to deal with.

[joe hx]

It works like this:

Unusually warm day in the middle of winter. The people who believe in global warming are out dancing in the streets saying, "See!?!? Global warming!!"

Next day, massive blizzard. Ten feet of snow. The people who don't believe in global warming are out dance... ok, there's snow... they are inside dancing "Global warming?!? It's a myth!!"

Who cares about science when you can look out the window and see what you want?

[AdminAssistant]

Even if global warming is a huge hoax and the Earth is just going through a "warming" cycle...would becoming a more energy-efficient planet be such a horrible thing? I just don't understand.....

[Cat]

Even if global warming is a huge hoax and the Earth is just going through a "warming" cycle...would becoming a more energy-efficient planet be such a horrible thing? I just don't understand.....

Agreed!!! I hate the term "Global Warming," I prefer "climate change."

I truly believe the climate is changing, just as to the *cause*, I don't know what I think.....but I do want to become more efficient.....as soon as we are sure what the best way is......that is always up for debate

[Fashion Lad!]

I don't deny climate change. I do deny global warming as it's presented by Al Gore. There are a lot of reputable scientists from both sides of the aisle on this. I don't think Americans should start forking over money to other nations because we polluted more and have caused "global warming".

I think crazies for both sides also exist.

[Fryk]

First of all, I want a cookie. Why?

Because Milhouse says "It's a myth!It's a myth!"

Second of all, who was this lady talking about? I couldn't see anywhere in her letter where she tells us what company she's talking about.

[Crazedclerkthe2nd]

The term "climate change" has always been a bit of an issue with me simply because that what happens to the planet ALL THE TIME regardless of the involvement of man.

The earth's climate has and continues to go through massive change. I do agree man has had a significant effect on that chang but there's just not enough concrete, unbiased data to accurately determine what that is.

[lordlundar]

The climate change argument is grating on me, because my country, no wait, my province has become a favorite whipping boy. Particularly in Copenhagen, the Alberta Tar Sands are being labeled by other countries as the "largest cause of climate change in the world". The countries saying this? Well, I'll cover that in a minute.

Canada's carbon emissions are approximately 8% of the man made emissions. The tar sands are 2% of that. so of the world emissions, the tar sands account for less than a quarter percent worldwide. Meanwhile, cities like Chicago or Beijing, which are no where near the size of the tar sands, produce well beyond that amount, yet no one is bashing them. Meanwhile, Canada has already invested more money into carbon capture research and design than most countries have devoted to their entire "green plan". Yet Canada gets bitched at.

Now the countries? China, India, South Africa, etc. Basically Developing nations. Why? Because Canada refuses to abide by the stupid cap and trade plan being proposed which serves no purpose apart from an elaborate money transfer program that does nothing for the environment.

(both China and the US, which combined amount for nearly half of the emissions in the world took pot shots at the tar sands. Talk about the kettle calling the pot black)

[KitterCat]

Now I didn't bother watching the video, but here's my take on "Global climate change".

1970’s Global cooling is reported. We’re all going to die!! There were scientist that reported that unless we changed our ways we’d be freezing in 5 years.

1980’s Global warming followed by global cooling. Again We’re all going to die!! Scientist reported that unless we changed our ways we’d be freezing in 5 years. Remember those ozone holes that reported - yeah their not there anymore. The planate fixed them.

1990’s Global warming. We’re all going to die!! Scientist reported that unless we changed our ways we’d do irreversible damage to the plant in 10 years. I think they finally figured we’d caught on that the 5 year thing wasn’t happening.

2000’s Global climate change. We’re all going to die!! Said scientists get to use a bit of logic, if it warms its global warming, if it cools its global cooling. Either way we’re covered when people start noticing the end of the world isn’t happening. BTW - currently it looks as if we’re actually going through a cooling faze.

Considering that 5 ice ages are known and they all occurred before the industrial age, I’m sort of leery if mankind is capable of causing climate change. Sure we can pollute sections of the planate, but I don’t think we can take out the whole thing, unless we’re talking nuclear warfare in a huge scale. Even then, I’m more concerned about the fate of the human race than the planet.

What I’m seeing in the cap and trade is bigger more economically secure countries being told to fork out money to small poor countries. I don’t see how this effects the environment. I also don’t see how paying for your “carbon footprint” is going to do anything other than make you feel good and make someone else rich. If I’m told by one more politician that I need to put on another sweater to keep warm (my house is 60 degrees F. Its already cold enough) or to check my tire pressure, to save gas, I’m not sure I can keep the impulse to choke said idiots. Especially when said politician has an electric bill 5 times the average houses, or uses private jets to fly everywhere.

Then you have fact that we’re discovering that a lot of said scientist were fixing the statistics to read what they wanted them to read.

[HYHYBT]

Waitaminit. Kittercat: I first heard about global warming in about 1985, and at that time they were saying the effects would start showing up in about *fifteen* years, not five. Which, since some effects have been measurable for a while now seems close enough. Where did you get the idea that the ozone hole was gone? Wonderful news, if it turns out to be true, but last I heard it was still expanding.

Besides, all the things (other than just passing money around) we're supposed to do to slow down climate change are things we ought to be doing *anyway* for other reasons, like pollution and finite resources and so forth.

This is one of those issues where I'd love to be proven wrong.

[Stormraven]

Last I heard, the Ozone Hole wasn't 'gone', per se. But it does fluctuate, and has apparently been shown to have been fluctuating for much longer than we've been putting CFCs into the atmosphere. So, as with many other things, what we were doing wasn't a good thing, but it likely wasn't as bad as the doomsayers were screaming.

My take on Global Warming/Climate Change is similar. There has been an atmosphere - and thus, a climate - on this planet for many hundreds of millions of years (if not a billion). In that time, the Earth has been an iceball, and has been covered with huge tropical jungles to greater extents than we've yet seen.

In other words, it's been dramatically warmer than is projected, and it's been dramatically colder than we've ever seen. I find it difficult to believe that we have the capability to, as some AGW proponents say, overwhelm the mechanism of climate change.

That said, it isn't a good idea to pump pollutants or the like into the air, or act like our actions have no effect at all. There's probably a median somewhere in there, and we'll eventually reach it, one way or another.

[Lace Neil Singer]

The term "climate change" has always been a bit of an issue with me simply because that what happens to the planet ALL THE TIME regardless of the involvement of man.

The earth's climate has and continues to go through massive change. I do agree man has had a significant effect on that chang but there's just not enough concrete, unbiased data to accurately determine what that is.

Agreed. I believe that to say that we have the power to destroy the planet is incredibly arrogant. However, we do have the power to destroy the human race; so all this work is to save ourselves, NOT the planet which is perfectly capable of taking care of itself without our help.

[blas87]

I prefer to call it "climate change" as well, because I think calling it global warming is a joke.

I don't deny things aren't changing, and I understand and believe that polar ice caps are melting and trouble is imminent, but until Wisconsin starts getting some milder winters and actual SUMMERS for once (unlike this past year), I refuse to call it global warming.