Who Do You Believe? Government or Scientists?

Perhaps we need the Convenient Truth

Published on October 19, 2007 By KFC Kickin For Christ In Pure Technology

Did anyone watch 20/20 tonight? A portion of it was on Global Warming. Now what? How much more can they say about this? It was on the "Gimme a Break" section of the show by John Stossel. He's usually pretty common sense so I watched.

FIrst he showed the ads that are nothing but scare tactics and then onto the school children, also scared from watching these ads and listening to their parents reaction watching these ads. Then onto Hollywood with Gore sharing his award with the The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ICPP) for the "Inconvenient Truth."

86% of the people now think Global Warming is a serious problem. Really? Once again I find myself in the minority. Fact or hype? Which is it? It's funny the Scientists interviewed tonight are not up in arms over this like Hollywood and the Government are. Who's in the know? The Scientists? The Government? Certainly not Hollywood!! How long will this be debated I wondered.

Of course Gore wouldn't agree to talk about this on a show like 20/20. So Stossel went to some high level Scientists to get the other side of the story. Gore must be too busy touring. Do you tour after you win a Nobel Peace Prize? I dunno, but I wouldn't be standing in line getting tickets that's for sure. For some strange reason, I'm thinking it's right up his alley.

These Scientists all agreed the earth is warm. That's not an issue. There are gains and losses to temperatures, and they're not at all concerned with it. They definitely said it has nothing to do with man. Well that's not so scary. Certainly not like the ads were.

One of them said all this hype is nothing but rubbish!! The IPCC is nothing but Government Activists. They are not scientists at all he said. One of the scientists interviewed had his name on the IPCC list at one time and asked to have his name removed, not agreeing with their stand. They refused, wanting to keep his name on there, (for credibility?) and he was angry. He had to threaten the IPCC with a lawsuit to get off the list. It's funny how just mentioning "lawsuit" changes one's mind.

These scientists receive no money but are getting threatened for speaking out against this whole global warming tirade. They are sticking their necks out refuting what the government is trying to sell us. What's behind all this? What is the Real Truth?

Debate 's over so says Gore....Gimme a break!

Comments (Page 2)

MasonM

on Oct 20, 2007

Although, I do believe steps to reduce carbon emissions as well as other various things we like to pump out can only lead to a reduction of negative effects that we have on the environment regardless of whether global warming is our fault or not.

I agree that reducing pollution and waste are good ideas regardless of other factors. The climate is always in a state of change and always has been. It would be highly irresponsible for us to try and interfere with the natural cycles of the planet.

We should strive to reduce our negative impact on the planet, but this inane "the sky is falling!" crap isn't necessary or even productive.

As for species dieing off, it's been happening for as long as there has been life on this planet and is also a natural process. Species come and go. We should ensure that we aren't causing species to die out (which we have in great numbers), but if some are dieing out due to the natural cycles of the planet we shouldn't interfere with that either. Any time we humans try to interfere with the natural processes it never turns out well.

Zoologist03

on Oct 20, 2007

We should strive to reduce our negative impact on the planet, but this inane "the sky is falling!" crap isn't necessary or even productive.

Precisely.

Any time we humans try to interfere with the natural processes it never turns out well.

True, we cause unnecessary harm whenever we mess with something. Most of our management and conservation efforts are around to fix the things we broke.

~Zoo

Dr Guy

on Oct 22, 2007

The planet warms, the planet cools, the galaxy spins around. Where's the beer?

God's Irony - Beer tastes better on a hot day, but is harder to cool (and except for the Brits, who wants warm beer?). So global warming is driving up the demand for beer, while at the same time making it harder to get a good cold one.

SplitPeaSoup

on Apr 25, 2008

I think people are missing a point. If the world is warming up and it is not our fault, shouldn't we be trying to stop it anyway!?! A lot of harmful natural phenomena occur, tornados, hurricanes, fires, etc. We don't like these. We predict and guard ourselves from tornados and hurricanes, and we try to prevent forest fires (beneficial to certain plant species whose seeds require a fire to germinate, i know. we could find other ways to preserve those species). Why should we not deal with global warming, whether our fault or whether not, in the same way?

If the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere (i can't see how we have trouble measuring that) increases steadily, then we should do our best to stop it. In fact, we should be trying to discover why the temperature fluctuates so that we can manipulate it entirely. Who knows? Maybe we can stop an ice-age entirely.

If a big ole meteor were heading for our world, we'd want to blow it up. Why shouldn't we stop an ice-age?

I would just love to see the look on a bioethicist's face when presented logic like that.

Scotteh

on May 13, 2008

I wasn't aware there was still contraversy regarding it, although i haven't been keeping up to date with recent events in the scientific community, so has there been some new develops that suggest we may not be causing it?

By the way, its not thosee natural phenomena you want to be worried about, its the pockets of liquid methane that will rise to the surface and evapourate into the atmosphere should the temperature keep rising.

This is a fact, that if the temperature keeps rising, life on this planet could very well not exist as we know it today (or at all possibly). I don't think we'll see this in our life time, even if we are the cause of global warming, however our children and their children will for sure

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