Is global warming/climate change a crock?

[jso1985]

I personally think it's all a crock of poo

so do I.

I'm hating the fundamentalism some people takes with their belief in man-caused Global Warming. but let's be honest a bit of pollution control won't hurt at all, probably won't stop GW anyway but it can help on something

[Rollo]

Industrial Activity over the past 300 year and the burning of things which releases chemicals and latent heat into the environment has had zero effect?

People won't care about global warming until it is economically beneficial to do so. Companies never change anything unless forced to by legislation, their job is to make a return to the people they're answerable to.

I think that global warming exists, and that we're responsible but no-one is going to do a damn thing about it until it becomes too expensive not to.

[Woodeye]

Did't we just had a thread like this some time ago?

This time I'm not going to stick my hand into this crock of youknowwhat.

[Brown, Jon Brow]

Another thing is this. What is the proper temperature for the planet? .

Who knows?

[jso1985]

interesting chart

what caused CO2 to increase before?

[tinchote]

interesting chart

what caused CO2 to increase before?

The greenhouse gases caused by the stone-age industry :

[Alexamateo]

The greenhouse gases caused by the stone-age industry :

Here's the proof! :

[tstran17_88]

interesting chart

what caused CO2 to increase before?

Mostly volcanic activity during those periods.

[tstran17_88]

I think we need to be less concerned about C02 (carbon dioxide) and more concerned about CO (carbon monoxide) , Nox and Hydrocarbons. Water vapor is a greenhouse gas too and there is a bigger percentage of that in the atmosphere and nobody seems worried about that. Plants need CO2 to survive and we need the plants producing oxygen to survive. But that's just my radical anti-Gore, anti-Hollywood opinion.

[Hondo]

Scientists say our sun will run out of fuel, collapse and take us with it someday, so......who cares? Then we have the astroid group that swears we are going to be smacked at any time by an object from space large enough to render us obsolete and there's nothing we can do about it.

I think it's hard for people and especially governments to accept that there are things out there we don't and can't control. "Why do our weather patterns no longer fit within our linear projections?" To say the climate is doing what it does naturally, in short, it's changing because it can and does, is far too simple and helpless for some to accept.

But thats whats going on and why.