Global Warming

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

I am curious to see views the Orgahs hold on global warming, mainly in a fact-finding manner, though I will be quite pleased if it develops into a debate (which it usually does).

In addition, do you think that the "global warming exists" lobby is given unfair press?

Voting is public.

[KukriKhan]

I like:

"Global warming exists; global cooling exists; our ability to manage either is greatly exaggerated."

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

I like:

"Global warming exists; global cooling exists; our ability to manage either is greatly exaggerated."

That's pretty much option number four. I considered making this about climate change as a whole, and if voters in the poll would prefer that then I suppose I can ask someone to change it.

[Louis VI the Fat]

I vote:

Global warming exists, manmade causes exist, non-made causes exist, global warming is a cult, denying global warming is a cynical lobby; and lastly, like so many controversial issues, debate is stifled by the lunatic fringes.

Edit, make that, the lunatic fringes are the majority, at least they shout so loudly and so unintereptedly, that they appear to be a majority. I blame the internets.

[CountArach]

I vote:

Global warming exists, manmade causes exist, non-made causes exist, global warming is a cult, denying global warming is a cynical lobby; and lastly, like so many controversial issues, debate is stifled by the lunatic fringes.

Edit, make that, the lunatic fringes are the majority, at least they shout so loudly and so unintereptedly, that they appear to be a majority. I blame the internets.

Wow, I could not have put it better.

[PBI]

Seems everyone's a scientist these days.

Quite what makes people think that holding a strong political opinion qualifies them to know more about science than the actual scientists escapes me.

Yet whenever I want to discuss any theory which doesn't step on anyone's political philosophy everyone seems strangely shy. Merits and flaws of string theory, anyone? Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Mechanics versus many worlds hypothesis?

Hmph. Suffice it to say I will not be buying a house on a flood plain any time soon.

[Hosakawa Tito]

I like:

"Global warming exists; global cooling exists; our ability to manage either is greatly exaggerated."

Put me down for this one.

[m52nickerson]

It does exist and man has greatly sped up a natural process. It is in that increase that the danger lies.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Put me down for this one.

Option #4 then?

[Ice]

I'm sure our current levels of pollution are not great for the earth, but global warming has turned into a global cult using Al-Gore type material as its sermon.

I voted for the 2nd one.

[JR-]

I like:

"Global warming exists; global cooling exists; our ability to manage either is greatly exaggerated."

agreed.

on the subject of press coverage of global warming, i note the alarmists are complaining about how much coverage the skeptics get.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

on the subject of press coverage of global warming, i note the alarmists are complaining about how much coverage the skeptics get.

I think that's mostly because they want the skeptics to get none instead of only a little.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

I agree that pollution and smog are problems that should be dealt with, very much so. I don't, however, think that global warming (whether it exists in the manner Al Gore thinks it does or not) is what should be driving the solutions to these problems. Basically, I feel that there's much ado about very little, and it's distracting us from actual environmental problems - smog and pollution. That's why I voted for option four.

[Ice]

I agree that pollution and smog are problems that should be dealt with, very much so. I don't, however, think that global warming (whether it exists in the manner Al Gore thinks it does or not) is what should be driving the solutions to these problems. Basically, I feel that there's much ado about very little, and it's distracting us from actual environmental problems - smog and pollution. That's why I voted for option four.

I'd generally agree with those statements.

[Papewaio]

Lets point out the bias from the start:

Posting it in the Backroom (Politics) rather then the Frontroom | Science (Science) you have already pre-empted it as a political movement.

For a bit of science content. Which is the hottest planet in the Solar System?

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For my opinion Louis says it all.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Lets point out the bias from the start:

Posting it in the Backroom (Politics) rather then the Frontroom | Science (Science) you have already pre-empted it as a political movement.

It can easily degenerate into a political debate, from previous experiences.

[PanzerJaeger]

Had the backroom existed in the 70's, we'd be debating the same environmental hysteria - only in the opposite direction.

[naut]

For a bit of science content. Which is the hottest planet in the Solar System?

Venus at 480ºC!

I think it's happening, I don't know if it's as bad as it's made out to be. But, if it is then I'm fine with future generations/scientists/etc looking back at me and saying "I told you so".