Myths about global warming Options

[pebkac]

http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462

[Dogmeat]

Cliff notes: Global warming is a left wing conspiracy for radical socialists to scare people into voting for them.

[Billy]

Cliff notes: Global warming is a left wing conspiracy for radical socialists to scare people into voting for them.

The article seems to say the opposite.

[Dogmeat]

The article seems to say the opposite.

See?! SEE! The CONSPIRACY has even invaded the INTERNET!!!!!

[pebkac]

See?! SEE! The CONSPIRACY has even invaded the INTERNET!!!!!

http://environment.newscientist.com/channe...-change/dn11653

[impala454]

http://www.predictweather.com/global_warming/index.asp

dunno how credible it is, but the methane part is funny, and the economical explanation seems pretty interesting and valid.

But Why Invent Global Warming?
Answer: to get research funds that have been made available. The Australian government recently granted $7.8 million to the CSIRO to investigate Greenhouse Gases. Some gases are sure to be found. In the 1960s geophysicists believed that with enough resources they could predict earthquakes, lobbied hard, and in 1966 the Japanese government funded a $270million per year program. In 1997, after wasting $2.7 billion dollars on no results, the program was axed. A research team is presently in Antarctica to study ice depth. They envisage this to be a 10 year project. In 2004 $4.3 billion was earned by the global warming industry. Most was invested in research and development, but media fed at the trough too, while various governments instituted new bureacracies and taxed emissions industries. Fear is bankable. If a population can be convinced that global warming is occurring, there is money to be made. What started off as a small group now has thousands of employees drawing wages.

In the 1980s the term "Greenhouse Effect" came into our vocabulary to try to explain the high temperatures the world was experiencing. The fact that in the following early 1990s we were in a below average period which saw cooler temperatures, particularly during the winter months in both hemispheres, went unreported and unnoticed by those now firmly entrenched on the GW bandwagon. By now other 'problems' found research funds that were being willingly provided. Ozone-depletion, first written up in 1974 and immediately laughed at by the world of science, suddenly became an area of serious study, as did CO2, El Nino/La Nina and just recently, methane, as funds again started to flow into researchers' pockets.

Methane
Do we seriously believe that the farts of cows can alter the world's climate? NZ was once teeming with farting birdlife. They're nearly all gone. The US was covered with farting buffalo, Canada with farting caribou. Europe had the farting mammoth and mastoden. All now gone. In India and Africa wildlife has been hunted almost to extinction. There are LESS animals and so less farters, honkers, snorters and burpers now than there have EVER been on this planet, which is why we have the notion of endangered species. One only has to walk behind one duck for 10 minutes to see what emerges from the blunt end of a walking methane factory. Also, methane is inflammable which means it will be destroyed by the next wiff of lightning. There are over 2000 electrical storms happening around the globe every second. What is not broken down in this way is attacked by hydroxyls(called "nature's detergents") in upper air layers. Methane has actually been decreasing for the last 17 years.

I dunno what to believe yet really... it seems there's a ton of political motivation that skews all sides of the arguments.