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ape-x, I never said that humans are the only ones to blame, and I wasn't attempting to summarize the entire issue by my one explanation of a very small part of the bigger picture. 

As far as an instant explanation... I'm not quite sure what you mean.  It seems like global warming and many other nature related issues have been talked about for many years.  What seems like an "instant explanation" is this sudden movement to debunk it all.  I understand what people are saying and meaning to convey by saying that it's a big political swindle, but I think that that explanation is again a huge misdirection from the main issue.  Fact is that our world is going to hell in a handbasket, and people are just now arguing about who or what is to blame.. it's too late.  The question should be how to survive the future.

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." ~ Mark Twain

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Hehe, I didn't mean that to be a rebuttal Pinky, more or less a follow-up to my previous post. Just an attempt at dialogue smile

This is a touchy subject, and I agree the planet is headed toward uncertainties, but alot of info I've come across also says we are just now coming out of the last ice age. So it could well be that very little of this has to do with humans.

I meant 'instant explanation' to pertain to political motives only. I do remember first hearng the term global warming in the late 80s. Depleted ozone was the real big deal then, not GW. Science was indeed talking about it long before any politicians went to the stump with it. I see things like chemtrail spraying having a much more serious impact than anything we may be doing at ground level, and the simple fact that this is still unknown to so many people means we can't put an accurate equation together as to the real causes and solutions.

Yes, it may be keeping more UV radiation out, but may be keeping more heat in as well, which would mean it's pointless, unless they mean to accelerate
GW to advance their agenda.

In any case, 95% don't even acknowledge it, so they'll be that much more likely to believe that it's their hairspray, or their car that's responsible for this swift upturn in weather catastrophes. I don't have any answers, but this has been politicized only recently, so that smells more than fishy.....                            J

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This could just as easily have been put together as a way to confuse the issue for the energy interests which we know have been driving the whole political machine for the last 50 years or so and could afford to do this easily.
I am not a scientist. Are you?
Then it's just a matter of which spin you want to believe... or disbelieve, which seems more important to some.
Regardless of the reason, Pinkrlyc is right... the planet is still in big trouble from melting glaciers and disappearing polar ice cap, no one seems to be able to explain that away as "not a problem".
That said however, there are probably many scientific minds able to come up with solutions when it's absolutely necessary.
I have a feeling that all of this will come to a head in a different way, for Americans especially.

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I'm really sorry, ape-x.  I didn't mean to get all defensive.  You're right... this issue is a sensitive topic for both sides (there's probably more than just two sides to this issue, too). 

I've also been thinking that both solar variances and chemtrails have had much to do with this "greenhouse" effect.  Also, the hundreds of airplanes every day are pumping god knows how much burned fuel directly into the atmosphere. 

It really makes me mad when the politicians want to point the finger right at the average citizen... it's what they always do (just like a "big brother").  They are the ones who've had the biggest hand in all of this, yet they make the innocent feel guilty.  We are not the ones who approve or deny new energy sources from being manufactured for sale to the mass public-- they are.  We buy what they approve for sale, and it just so happens that they've known all along what their oil based fuel has been doing, but they're greedy bastards that didn't care.   Now they're finding ways to procrastinate a solution.  I think you're right, ape-x, about it being to accelerate GW's agenda, but I think this agenda isn't his idea, alone.  I think this agenda has been in the works for decades(like feedbaxlow said), and whatever they've been trying to achieve is nearly here, so they're acting as if there really isn't a problem.  Feedbaxlow, I think you're right about all of this being put together as a way to confuse the issue, in favor of the energy interests.  (and all the other big businesses, like the pharmaceutical and religious empires)

I also agree with you, feedbaxlow, that this all has to come to a head, but I wonder how it's all going to play out in the end.  Are we going to be "harvested" or destroyed to make way for another version of terrestrial that will be called "human"?  Or are they, as some have stated, attempting to bring about biblical prophecy?  What will become of us, and will there be anywhere that's safe to hide when the crap hits the fan?  Those are the questions that plague my conspiracy-addled mind lately. 

Okay... I think I've reached my "off-the-deep-end" conspiracy theory limit for today... Off I go now, to continue polluting with my swine-ish "western" life.  Ciao!

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." ~ Mark Twain

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No sweat Pinky wink 

That's my main point here I guess, shit runs downhill. The commoners always seem to get the brunt of the mess blamed on them. The real polluters wash their hands of it, and walk away smirking.

I mentioned the ozone crisis, I'm sure alot of us remember the banning of CFCs and conventional freon refrigerant. What ever happened to the ozone debate though? Maybe tptb couldn't find a way to exploit that profitably enough?

Is that why that one just faded away? Has the ozone been completely replaced by barium and aluminum oxide?  I remember hearing in the early 90s that the ozone had begun repairing itself, then the next week they'd say the hole's only getting bigger, then the whole thing just subsided, I still find it bizarre.

Many older people have lived thru more of these scams, red scare, Y2K, on and on. Each generation seems to have a plethora of these to deal with, I guess this is ours...                                                 J

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smile lol, GW global warming, not George W.
By GW agenda, I mean just what you said above, where they can either bring about armageddon, or at least tax us as an armageddon 'preventative'.  But GWB definetely fits in there, somewhere!     J

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IN THE IMMORTAL WORDS OF Ronald Reagan, "Well, I uh..."  There used to be a relatively few number of nations around the globe that had roads and highways everywhere, millions of gasoline or diesel powered machines and automobiles.  Lately however, we are finding that practically every nation around the globe wants to have precisely the same thing.  When you consider how many roads and highways we are making, utilizing concrete or asphalt, and how many acre's of land that they must be covering, it may create a conceptual antagonism.  We might be wondering in what direction this is taking us. 

I don't think we need to panic over how we are damaging the ecosystems of Earth.  We will gradually learn to be capable of supporting billions of human lives on this planet without laying it to waste. 

I feel that the condition we find this planet to be in, with the current number of humans now living on it, is a reflection on how we feel about ourselves and about other people. 

At the bottom of all enmity between strangers is indifference. - Gurjieff.  Then you have greed playing its role.

Also very important, is when any group of people only see their religion as Truth, and furthermore decide that any other religion is false. 

I think people who start spouting doom and gloom about the environment, are trying to manipulate; to get money, to make you feel fear, or get you to feel despair or hopelessness.  "No we don't! we just want people to be aware."  If that is the case, fine.

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23 (edited by Antaeus 2007-08-13 18:09:25)

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druid wrote:

Very good documentary. I was surprised.

I recommend it to everyone, most specefically to those who feel concerned about Global Warming.

On cannot watch this movie and keep repeating that 'Greenhouse Gaz Cause Global Warming'.

I know that many christian fundamentalists believe that the EU's president is the antichrist and that they use Environmentalist discourse and Global Warming as scare tactic to impose their own agenda. In fact the West and the UE want to impose global warming laws to suppress the economic rise and development of States in the Middle East, in the East and the third world. China wil never let the West repress their economic development invoquing environmental reasons. This will certainly be one element in the clash coming up between America-EU Versus the East. Many Christian fundamentalists believe that Russia and China and Iran will attack Israel and the West, with antichrist as president of the EU.

So, this documentary can be made to nourish the fundamentalists and conspiracy theorists' fears of environmental issues as being controled by the government of antichrist (such fundamentalists also look at the UN as the Harlot of Babylon, and we can see that the UN is filled with environmental and new age feminist groups. This is clearly meant as a provocation ni the face of fundamentalist christians...

my two cents.

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24 (edited by sinaptix 2007-08-12 17:28:40)

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Blogger Finds Bug in NASA Global Warming Study?

1998 no longer the hottest year on record in USA

http://www.norcalblogs.com/watts/2007/0 … t_yea.html
http://www.dailytech.com/Blogger+finds+ … le8383.htm

According to an article at DailyTech, a blogger has discovered a Y2K bug in a NASA climate study by the same writer who accused the Bush administration of trying to censor him on the issue of global warming. The authors have acknowledged the problem and released corrected data. Now the study shows the warmest year on record for the contiguous 48 states as being 1934, not 1998 as previously reported in the media. In fact, the corrected study shows that half of the 10 warmest years on record occurred before World War II.

25 (edited by feedbaxlow 2007-08-17 13:40:15)

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OK if you saw the latest "Newsweek" magazine: this whole show and movement was put together by Exxon!
More disinformation for your ass.
I can't believe barefoot doc and others fell for this shit.
This will set us back another 3 years because people thinking these scientists were actually saying what their research showed rather than saying what the producers of this fakumentary (Exxon) wanted them to say in exchange for a check.
Many will now repeat these baseless questionings about whether c02 actually leads to greenhouse gas/global warming etc.
This topic shows how quickly and easily people are disinformed

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...I wouldn't say Barefoot Doc- or any of us have 'fallen' for anything. It's an ongoing debate, see here before you are ready to pick sides: www.newswithviews.com/Coffman/mike10.htm                                              J

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27 (edited by feedbaxlow 2007-08-17 13:39:02)

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OK I read it.
It's nonsense.
He's driven by some other agend if it isn't just selling his hokum DVD's
"Megiddo" Armageddeon prophecy and global conspiracy.
Bible boy. crazy talk.
He's a theocrat with some connections to conspiracy more like.
You trust a site like that? help yourself to nonsense and nonscience.
   
These are the "myths" he claims his new dvd explodes:

      Global warming is causing all the “abnormal” weather we are currently experiencing

      CO2 has caused warming and cooling of the earth over the past several hundred thousand years
    *
      CO2 is the most important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere
    *
      The earth has had a steady temperature for the past thousand years and then suddenly skyrocketed to record levels in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
    *
      The rapid temperature increase in the late twentieth century is evidence of global warming.
    *
      The number and severity of hurricanes and other violent weather is escalating.
    *
      The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an unbiased scientific body.
    *
      • The Antarctic and Greenland ice caps are melting and will cause ocean levels to rise 20 feet.
(i guess all the photos showing it melting quicker and quicker are faked huh?)
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      The polar bears are threatened with extinction as the polar ice cap breaks up
    *
      CO2 is a pollutant and its emission should be constrained
    *
      CO2 has no benefits
    *
      There is scientific consensus that CO2 is driving modern global warming and the science is settled.

Right.
The last one is the only one that has any merit to question but he's not presenting anything substantial
He's just casting doubt and clouding the issue.


He says these things and produces no evidence onsite to back it up.
you must buy his DVD's to find out.
but there is nothing here that suggests he's done any serious research.
His debunking is nothing but some saying everything that makes sense is wrong.
I don't buy this.
It's typical corporate/right wing/church boy nonsensical baloney

tell me why you find this site interesting?

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feedbaxlow, did you look at the move that was listed earlier. I'm confused, the one that is supposedly paid for by Exxon? (where's the evidence for that?)

I think the global warming evidence is very easy for any intelligent layman to understand.

*According the the antarctic icecore samples, there is a correlation between CO2 levels and temperature. CO2 levels raise after teperatures raise, and lower after temperature lowers. Temperature affects CO2 levels, not the other way around.

*The globe has been adjusting temperate forever. We have 1000 years of good weather records, which clearly show greater fluctuations than we are seeing now. Before 100 years ago, man-made CO2 was not an issue, so why the fluxuation. It turns out that there is a very nice correlation between solar activity and temperature.

*The greatest rise in temperature during this century happened BEFORE 1950, when CO2 emissions were lower. There is no good correlation between CO2 and temperatures.

*There is no proof that the greenhouse theory is accurate. In fact, the data shows the opposite of what the theory predicts. Greenhouse gasses should warm up faster than the surface, but the opposite has been the actual case.

*CO2 forms a minute portion of greenhouse gases. Vaporized water makes up the vast portion of greenhouse gases.

*The amount of CO2 humans produce is miniscule compared to what is produced naturally by life on this planet. This point alone is enough to make the whole CO2 debate seem ridiculous!

There are more things, such as the fact that the glaciers are ALWAYS breaking up and reforming. It does make good global warming PR to show pictures of cute stranded polar bears.

It is so clear to me when actually seeing a presentation of the actual data that global warming is NOT MANMADE. And if you look at who is benefiting (governments by raising regulations and taxes), it is so clear this whole thing is just not right.

Good luck trying to tell anyone...

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Well you seem to have taken the debate to heart feedbaxlow.... I'll bite.

You assume much from my short post above, concerning my placing any emphasis on the author's belief system, or the ?site? the link was sourced from?

Don't see how that matters....

" from piece:

"However the siren song of big research grants and even bigger prestige has sucked many scientists down the road of poliicizing their science"

Amen

Science (orthodox) lives within the box of it's own disbeliefs, are you willing to rely on that structure to make accurate forecasts in any vain? I am NOT.

I am not trying to convert anyone, in order to have real debate, ALL evidence must be considered.

Did you ever hear about the fire in a coalmine in China that burned for over 450 years? It may actually still be burning.

Can you imagine the emissions from millions of tons burning for over four centuries.... humans worldwide have probably done far less than that one
event.... this is the kind of thing I weigh recent history against, everyone is entitled to their own viewpoint. The evidence I've seen so far says humans being the causative factor for GW is a hoax.                                                    J

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It might be prudent to add here, that there is much confusion between outright GW denial, and those who deny GW is caused by human/mechanical consumption.

There is a warming trend, all it takes for evidence of that is the polar caps. I don't deny GW, what I deny is the assertion by omission, that the sun has no involvement in climate trends, that volcanic activity and yes CHEMTRAILS and related electro-cloudfryer devices have no involvement in weather patterns, nope apparently all "science" can FOCUS on with a laser eye is CARBON.

For those who tend to prefer the 'electric furnace' theory of the sun, like myself,  to simply consider Earth as the kettle, sun as the flame. Turn up the flame, kettle warms. Is this our doing?  Unless we have a subconscious effect on the surface temp of the sun, no.

And the sun is but ONE of many factors that science will continue to deny exist.

Who are the real deniers here?

www.thesurfaceofthesun.com

                                                              J

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