Top 10 Myths About Climate Change

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• The earth had to overcome birth, 4.5 billion yrs ago. If it can overcome that challenging epic of birth why not puny mans contributions? One volcanoes eruption introduces more pollution than mans effort of yrs. does.
  Norm Flagg

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• It is 100% political. Who wrote this silly article? Humans have NO CONTROL of the planet. It controls us. What is the #1 cause of temperatures going up? Volcanoes. Long before humans lived volcanoes controlled the planet. Present: warm. Absent: cold.

  • Don't confuse the anti-oil, anti-Western Civilization zealots. They want us all to be Third World Countries.

• Actually volcanoes cool the earth. The ashes block the sun. 1992 was “the year without a summer” because of weakened sunlight from Mount Pinatubo erupting.

  • John, just a small fact about Pinatubo. First, I saw the eruption in person. Second, and most important, the eruption of Pinatubo did more damage the earths attmosphere than all of human existance on this planet and it fixes itself. If the tree hugging community were to be unable to strike fear in public at large, then they'd lose all funding. Always follow the money.
    Regards
    John

  • Interesting. I wrote a comment about China being the the worst polluters and somehow it managed to disappear!

  • Depends who is recording temps and their biases. Polar bears aren't in the fossil record millions of years ago because polar ice wasn't regular until 100,000 or so years ago. Record high temps since 2001? Were they recorded in cities where concrete & buildings up the temps, or out in nature. Warmest temps ever recorded? You mean since themometers were invented barely 150 years ago? Very, very, very,.... tiny data set.

• Well I'm old enough to remember global cooling. We were going to become an ice ball. What happened? I was willing to listen to your opinion, however it became clear that this poorly written article or it was not edited thoroughly was not going to shed any light on the theory of GW. Which alway lessens my interest in following the story. Here are just a few examples of what I mean.
  "making it much less cheap" that's my favorite
  "This is the biggest crisis we ever have to say, and sadly it's man-made."
  "now how to survive"
  There are many other little things that make this hard to take seriously.
  I'm just a simple old man. I'm not a writer, but I've always noticed these little things that annoyed me. But I'm willing to do my part so here's a helpful solution for two problems. To help with water problems in the western part of the country crank up the desalinization plant on the California coast. Also bring in the desalinization ships that the US Navy has and pump that water into the the farmlands, lakes and reservoirs. I know they don't have big hoses, and it's not like filling a pool. However I'm sure the US Army Corps of Engineers "Essayons" (let us try) can find a way to transport the fresh water to the right location. This, I'm sure you already realized, will take a massive amount of water from the ocean which may help with global sea rise.

• I don't trust politicians. Less is more, which is the key to "climate change."

• The climate has always changed. Period. End of discussion.

• The climate has always changed. Now scientists are once again saying we may be entering another ice age. The sun's activity is what controls the earth's temperature, in particular, sun spots, which are few right now. Please note that the temperature on Mars fluxuates with the same pattern as Earth. No SUVs or cow farts on Mars.

• The most significant argument is made from the ice core samples in the Arctic that go back 3000 years. The carbon trapped in the ice for 3000 years has been insignificant until you get to the point in the late 1800s when the industrial revolution began. At that point the graph for C02 trapped in the ice shows that our atmosphere has been polluted by the fossil fuels that have spewed into our atmosphere from factories and vehicles. That's all one needs to look at to prove that it is mankind that is causing the global warming.

• If it wasn't for climate change we'd still be living in the ice age and I don't recall there being industrialization by cave man! Argue THAT point!
  Before the ice age the planet was very warm. That's more climate change not caused by man. Maybe it was aliens.
  That makes as much sense as blaming man. If they were really worried about pollution
  why not go after the world's biggest polluter.....China?