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 Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 7:35 pm
Come on now, I know you guys have heard this one somewhere from someone.
That global warming is all a scam, a conspiracy, so that corporations can rob us of our money and the government can rob us of our freedom.
And then, it usually ends there, they don't explain how the came to this reasoning, and whenever you ask they never tell.
But seriously, how do people come to such silly conclusions?
More specifically, how the American people come to such silly conclusions?
I have never seen so much skepticism in other countries, though skepticism exists everywhere I wouldn't be surprised if there's some sort of skeptic Mecca around here somewhere.
How!?!
Besides carbon offsets...how?
It's so mind-boggling!
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Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 5:19 pm
Maybe some people don't want to believe global warming is happening? I was pretty sceptic about global warming too at first, I researched and it seem legit. It's happening. A lot of people think that it's unavoidable and the earth is heating up naturally, because it warmed up a little bit before the industrial revolution.
The way I see it is, I don't want to die at 70 from heat stroke. That's where we're headed, this is in our lifetime... people who say, "this isn't my problem" are mistaken.
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Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 12:05 am
I actually made a huge long post about global warming denial before. Out of pure laziness I'm copying and pasting it. xd Quote: I'm actually doing a class speech on global warming denial. =D
The truth of the matter is that global warming is a natural process - it's called the greenhouse effect. Basically there's a certain type of gases in the atmosphere, called greenhouse gases (or GHGs). Among these is carbon dioxide, or CO2. GHGs take the heat we receive from the sun and trap it in the Earth's atmosphere, thus warming the Earth. It's important and absolutely necessary - without it we would be completely frozen over.
The burning of fossil fuels, our main source of energy, releases CO2 into the atmosphere. Since we humans have been burning up fossil fuels excessively for our electricity-run lives, we've been pumping out more and more CO2 into the atmosphere. Now we see the effects. (For a more extensive definition, go to the 2nd post of this thread.)
Scientists have pretty much all agreed that global warming is real, is primarily caused by us, and that we can do something to at least slow it down to a level that species can properly adapt to. But denial still exists, for some reason. The basis of that reason lies in - you guessed it - the Bush administration.
Bush has strong ties with big-oil companies, which are reliant on burning fossil fuels. So he did everything to create an air of denial towards global warming. He appointed oil-lobbyist Phil Cooney as the primary environmental advisor, in charge of the global warming issue. After revising scientists' publications about this issue and completely canceling others, he left the White House to go work for Exxon Mobil.
Both Bush and Exxon have paid certain scientists to claim that either global warming isn't real, isn't harmful, or that we are not responsible (or that it would take too much of a toll on the economy or that it's too late to do anything about it). And all of that, frankly, is bullshit.
Unfortunately they've succeeded quite well. If you ask any one of my classmates about what they know of global warming, they'll tell you it has something to do with pollution, that it's supposedly bad...and that they don't even think it's real.
Some other organizations that deny GW:
The Heartland Institute
Friends of Science
AWESOME videos (GO SEE GO SEE GO SEE):
The Denial Machine - A Canadian documentary on how the entire debate started. VERY informative and helpful, includes interviews with skeptics (who have never published anything that's peer-reviewed, BTW).
Toast the Earth - A hilarious video about Exxon brought to you by the Defenders of Wildlife. This video was actually posted as a link somewhere in this guild a long time ago. xd
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:39 pm
One of my neighbors does not believe in global warming, and told me that I need to research things. So to make sure I was looking at what she had read I asked where she got her information. The reply? "The internet." So I typed in Global Warming and found that many of those that put claims against the global warming are companies and corporations that deal with cars, in which riku has elaborated on ^_^
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Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:33 am
Quote: More specifically, how the American people come to such silly conclusions? Oh, that's easy. We are a capitalist society, and we are spoiled. We'd rather ignore any inconvenient little facts that might disrupt our comfy status quo.
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