Climate Change is here and man made

kas_tippler said:
All that might be true but it's uncool to say such things, to question climate change is seen as bad as a holocaust denier nowadays. Unbelievable !
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Exactly mate. Which is precisely why the world has so grossly overreacted over any possible risk. The level of media hype is simply unbelievable, and unfortunately your average Joe who knows no better is forced into being understandably alarmed and goes off shouting about how something MUST be done. The whole thing is whipped up into a completely unjustified frenzy.

I wonder how many people have actually stopped to think, what if the world WAS 2 degrees warmer by the year 2100? Would it actually be a *bad* thing? We'd certainly have less people dying of cold (which is a real issue, btw). We'd have a more warmer, wetter and more verdant environment and higher crop yields. We'd lose some species (as the planet has always done for thousands of millenia) and others would thrive. The world would be slightly different. But how would it be SO MUCH worse as to justify the ridiculous amount of money and attention it gets?

Polar bears would be fine by the way. They were fine when there was no ice and the world was MUCH warmer than it is now. Yet we are constantly subjected to footage of the "poor polar bears" swimming around with no ice to cling to, as if this in itself is reason to act.

It's not like carbon reduction initiatives are free and "why not do them anyway". It greatly holds back the industrialisation of Africa, which will doubtless cost tens or hundreds of millions of lives over the next century, for example. Think on that for just a moment.
 
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blueinsa said:
Like i said, hysteria is driving this argument and its a government led hysteria.
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No, science and scientists drives the climate change theory and pretty much every one of em that has spent years independently studying the subject agrees that man has had a huge influence on the global environment.
 
Chippy_boy said:
Exactly mate. Which is precisely why the world has so grossly overreacted over any possible risk. The level of media hype is simply unbelievable, and unfortunately your average Joe who knows no better is forced into being understandably alarmed and goes off shouting about how something MUST be done. The whole thing is whipped up into a completely unjustified frenzy.

I wonder how many people have actually stopped to think, what if the world WAS 2 degrees warmer by the year 2100? Would it actually be a *bad* thing? We'd certainly have less people dying of cold (which is a real issue, btw). We'd have a more warmer, wetter and more verdant environment and higher crop yields. We'd lose some species (as the planet has always done for thousands of millenia) and others would thrive. The world would be slightly different. But how would it be SO MUCH worse as to justify the ridiculous amount of money and attention it gets?

Polar bears would be fine by the way. They were fine when there was no ice and the world was MUCH warmer than it is now. Yet we are constantly subjected to footage of the "poor polar bears" swimming around with no ice to cling to, as if this in itself is reason to act.

It's not like carbon reduction initiatives are free and "why not do them anyway". It greatly holds back the industrialisation of Africa, which will doubtless cost tens or hundreds of millions of lives over the next century, for example. Think on that for just a moment.
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Very well put, bravo!
 
Chippy_boy said:
I wonder how many people have actually stopped to think, what if the world WAS 2 degrees warmer by the year 2100?
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That's pretty short-term thinking. And what about 2 degrees warmer 50 years after that? And another 2 degrees soon after that? Well we know what would happen. Certain areas of the world would become uninhabitable unless you were good on stilts. And given that some of these areas are places where people already live, it's probably desirable that it doesn't happen.

Yes the climate has always changed, but usually at a pace that allows animals to evolve to deal with it. But at the moment, it's changing a lot faster than evolution takes. As for more crops, I think you'll find that any new areas for growing crops will be more than made up for by areas turned to desert.

British people in particular should be all for this. Regardless of the facts, with the right investment, Britain would be to renewable energy what Saudi Arabia is to oil. We're a windy, rainy, tidal island. We could easily be a world leader in all of those technologies.
 
stonerblue said:
No, science and scientists drives the climate change theory and pretty much every one of em that has spent years independently studying the subject agrees that man has had a huge influence on the global environment.
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All you need to do for any conspiracy theory is ask one question: is it in the interests of the rich and powerful to lie? Why would a parliament full of politicians largely funded by big business want to lie about this? Do these lobbyists want people to cut their consumption? Do they want to have in invest in green technologies when oil and coal work perfectly well? Do the big supermarkets want to charge for plastic bags? When something is accepted despite being against the interests of pretty much all big business, it generally means it's true.
 
What ever happened to the 'hole in the ozone layer' thing? I thought we'd all be burnt to a crisp by now?
 
I'm With Stupid said:
All you need to do for any conspiracy theory is ask one question: is it in the interests of the rich and powerful to lie? Why would a parliament full of politicians largely funded by big business want to lie about this? Do these lobbyists want people to cut their consumption? Do they want to have in invest in green technologies when oil and coal work perfectly well? Do the big supermarkets want to charge for plastic bags? When something is accepted despite being against the interests of pretty much all big business, it generally means it's true.
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That's more than one question Stupid but in order of asking;
Yes
Greed
No
Not really
Yes.
 
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