Comments on: Global Warming: It's All In Your Head

It's Not A Question Of Facts, But Perceptions, Says CBSNews.com's Dick Meyer

[bildooreilly]

oh yeah don't forget how they told us the vietnamese commies would conquer the world if we pulled out of vietnam, the war would follow us home blah blah blah.. then go find the old news article about the successful vietnamese elections of 1968 I believe it was. It was the same propaganda article they used for the Iraqi elections. I'm not really a bible thumper but doesn't the good book say something about the devil not being able to create anything new? If you notice it's just the same old regurgitated *** all over again. Learn history, real history, which means go research it yourself.

[bildooreilly]

1970's - Global Cooling scam
1970's - Swine Flu Scam
1970's - Asteroid Going To Hit Earth around the year 2000
1970's - We'll run out of oil by the year 2000


2007 - Global warming scam
2007 - Bird Flu Scam
2007 - Asteroid going to hit earth around the year 2036
2007 - We're going to run out of oil by 2012 or 2020 depending on who you want to believe.

[pepperwood2]

Saving Starving Children Should Trump Global Warming Concerns

Nobel Peace Prize-nominee Al Gore told a New York University audience last September that, %u201COur children have a right to hold us to a higher standard when their future%u2026 is hanging in the balance.%u201D

But the future for 18,000 hungry children extends about 24 hours. What%u2019s our planetary hero doing about that?

NASA%u2019s climate alarmist-in-chief told the Ventura County Star (Feb. 8) that, %u201CThe U.S. must [tackle global warming because]%u2026 we have a moral burden for our children and grandchildren.%u201D

Unless the %u201Cour%u201D in Hansen%u2019s quote refers only to American children, it would seem that %u201Cour%u201D moral burden lies elsewhere given hunger%u2019s daily death toll.

If state politicians are going to worry about global issues, perhaps they ought to extend their concerns to the world%u2019s neediest children.

Even accepting for the sake of argument the dubious claim that global warming may lead to 160,000 %u201Cextra%u201D deaths per year at some future point, that claim pales in comparison to the ongoing 18,000-actual-dead-children-per-day figure.

Uttering vague concern for %u201Cthe children%u201D may make for good global warming sound bites. But such hot air does little to help the world%u2019s real children who are slated to die largely preventable deaths.

[gaye5]

triassic, we have been told of so many horrors that will befall our earth over the last 50 years that many of us are naturally sceptical... in the 1970's we were scared stiff that we were very quickly going into another ice age, and people said that those who dont believe are in denial,,
Yes, we are going through a CYCLE of heating, and gaining of some extra CO2's but anyone who has been through school knows that trees are the lungs of the earth and absorb CO2's so if there was really anything to worry about our governments would be implementing a mass world project to plant trees. Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth's land surface; now they cover a mere 6% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years, this is not good.

One and one-half acres of rainforest are lost every second, and as we need wood from trees to use for so many things, we should replant trees, and also plant in the deserts, plus in areas that are no good for anything else and we could solve a fair amount of the CO2 problems.. it is no wonder the problem is getting worse, we are cutting down the earths lungs and not replacing it, but how do we cope with the fact that the sun is also heating up and heating other planets also, ice caps are melting on Mars also...

[pepperwood2]

What is your priority??

Last week, outgoing United Nations World Food
Program chief James Morris reminded us that 18,000 children die every day from hunger and malnutrition. Morris called the situation %u201Ca terrible indictment of the world in 2007.%u201D

In contrast to our quixotic fixation with trying to fine-tune global climate by tweaking atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, the ongoing tragedy of starving children would seem to be a relatively easy problem to solve. After all, wealthy developed nations have plenty of surplus food and the wherewithal to deliver it to the world%u2019s malnourished.

While the long-term solution for the starving children, of course, is the sort of economic development and political reform that would enable poverty stricken regions to develop self-sustaining economies, the short-term solution requires immediate direct aid from developed nations. And so it would seem that if the developed world%u2019s opinion leaders and policymakers truly cared about %u201Cthe children%u201D as much as they publicly claim, food aid would already be flying to the world%u2019s starving.

[montraville]

I like what the chairman of Duke Power said. He was meeting in Congress, and saying that energy companies should be willing to accept some form of emissions regulation. He showed an interest in comprimise.

"In this town, if you're not at the table, you're on the menu."

[doctor--o]

This commentary is right on, sad to say.
On the other hand, it could represent an ideological orientation I don't share.
What made me even want to read it?
Enough said.

[zoroastor]

Katg21
Do us all a favor and cancel your account here.
You use NO lucid logic, your opinions are entirely emotionally based, you name call, and do absolutely NOTHING to further your own cause, let alone rational discussion. You're pathetically ignorant of the facts and get all your "factiods" from far-right talk show hosts who only spew COMMENTARY, not news.
The GLOBAL scientific community is telling us it IS our lifestyles that contributed to global warming. What is it going to take to convince you?
I would bet that you were/are one of those people who didn't/don't believe that cigarettes cause cancer.
If I state here that Democrats have declared that the sky is blue, I bet you'll argue that it isn't.

[edjohn66]

"Sure, global warming may be a threat but you can't tell me for one minute that my lifestyle is what caused it."


Do you drive a car? Do you heat your house? Do you utilize the power grid? Do you buy any manufactured products whatsoever?

If you are like most Americans, then YES, YOUR LIFESTYLE IS WHAT HELPED CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING. We are a minority of the world's population and consume a vastly disproportionate share of the world's energy and emit a grossly disproportionate share of carbon into the atmosphere.

So if you live the life of a typical American, then accept your responsibility and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. If you have taken steps to reduce your carbon footprint, then you have my apology for this post and my thanks for your efforts.

Otherwise, WAKE UP!

[katg21]

It's not a Republican thing or a Democrat thing. It's a people thing. More specifically, it's an American thing. American's are way too self-righteous, selfish, and ill-responsive to anything that may infringe upon their sense of self-entitlement to realize or care. China is no better.
Posted by pixelslinger at 11:04 PM : Feb 22,

I'm so sick of self-righteous people like you who feel the need to guilt people into believing your ***. Sure, global warming may be a threat but you can't tell me for one minute that my lifestyle is what caused it. Now stop insulting your fellow Americans and start doing and saying positive things; this will do more for saving our planet than driving a prius.

[zykracosmos]

Perhaps one need look no farther than the endemic habit of cigarette smoking in the West to see that we have a poor danger alert system for anything that doesn't seem to pose an immediate threat, even though we clearly understand the long-term lethal implications. Despite the proof that smoking will absolutely kill you in one of several nasty ways, 22 million people still do it in the US. Time to rewire the brain? Unlike the movie "Crank," people can't stay on alert about anything for very long. They either address the problem and solve it immediately, or regress to a state of gloomy acceptance.

[zykracosmos]

Nowhere does the human population%u2019s propensity for ignoring a dire threat to common life support systems show up as brutally as the lack of will to address the global population explosion. The population has doubled in 30 years and the planet is already beyond its human carrying capacity, and yet no lawmaker in the free world would dare propose any strategy aimed at reducing our numbers. Individual social freedoms outflank the survival of the whole. Isn't it ironic that the only country in the world that has tried to limit population growth (China) is a totalitarian regime? Is that what it takes? The poorest countries have the highest growth rate. Ironically when Kenya had the highest infant mortality rate, they still had the highest population growth rate. THEY INCREASED THE BIRTHRATE TO INSURE A GREATER CHANCE THAT 1 OR 2 OFFSPRING WOULD SURVIVE, illustrating the paradox that befalls all of humankind.

[montraville]

Some crank groups allied with Focus on the Family say that the earth is actually UNDERPOPULATED. It's the perfect kind of organization to start if you're a *** addict, I guess...

[zykracosmos]

*** this was one of your more thoughtful and interesting columns of the past several months. I have often referred to humans as "frogs in the pot" in reference to a frog's tendency to sit in water that slowly heats to a boiling point until the he dies, although he would instinctively jump out if dropped in a pan of even moderately hot water. We don't have the instincts as humans to deal with long term threats, and it's our Achilles heel as a species. Our collective will to restrict ozone-depleting aerosols may be a blip on the screen when it comes to international cooperation in solving threats to our common life-support systems.

[grumpas]

Most of the one's who don't think we have global warming are the same one's who don't see the hazards of over-population! Who want to eliminate birth control, abortion and any form of contraception because it goes against their religious belief's! We are populating ourselves into oblivion! In another 50 years it's going to reach the critical stage where it's irreverable. And what is worse no one seems to see the hazards of unchecked population growth!

[gaye5]

We all know that trees are the lungs of the earth so it stands to reason that as we are making CO2 far more than before plus we are cutting down trees that absorb the CO2's at an alarming rate that we are going to have an imbalance. It would be logical for governments to order the replanting of forests or plant trees in deserts like Israel did, or where land is useless we can plant more trees. .
However in having said this, we have to realise that scientists also say that the sun is heating up, along with Satellite data since 1998 indicates the bulge in the Earth's gravity field at the equator is growing, and scientists think that the ocean may hold the answer to the mystery of how the changes in the trend of Earth's gravity are occurring.
Before 1998, Earth's equatorial bulge in the gravity field was getting smaller because of the post-glacial rebound, or PGR, that occurred as a result of the melting of the ice sheets after the last Ice Age. When the ice sheets melted, land that was underneath the ice started rising. As the ground rebounded in this fashion, the gravity field changed.

"The Earth behaved much like putting your finger into a sponge ball and watching it slowly bounce back," said Christopher Cox, a research scientist supporting the Space Geodesy Branch at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. this is from the Goddard space flight center.
August 01, 2002 - (date of web publication)

[adventurepa]

"So what is it that makes some human brains dismiss or ignore global warming and others, far fewer, feel worried, threatened and called to action?" Quoted from above. The real reason.

Dismiss or ignore = MONEY or ME, me, me, me, me!

Worried or Threatened = educated, fact based discerning of information and being able to see past the problem, seeing the bigger picture, to a solution.

Yes the climate changes all the time!
Ice ages come and go!
Warming comes and goes.
But,
Doing nothing about accelerating these events and contributing to warming.
Stupid!

[gaye5]

- London Telegraph: The truth about global warming - it's the Sun that's to blame
Global warming has finally been explained: the Earth is getting hotter because the Sun is burning more brightly than at any time during the past 1,000 years, according to new research.

The simple fact is that throughout the ages the earth has swung wildly between a warm, wet, stable climate, to a cold, dry and windy one - long before the first fossil fuel was burned. The changes we are now witnessing are a walk in the park compared to the battering that our planet has taken in the past.

Even the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change is selective and its conclusion flawed. Its fear-mongering arguments have been sensationalized, Mr. Stern sees increasing hurricane damage in the U.S. as a powerful argument for carbon controls. However, hurricane damage is increasing predominantly because there are more people with more goods to be damaged.

[victor_2-1]

Global warming is a serious looming problem that will sneak up on Humanity probably within the next 15 years. There is another serious problem that nobody is discussing. What happens when there is no more crude oil? If humanity doesn't think of something that can effectively replace oil in the next 10 to 20 years we are not going to be able to maintain the scale of agriculture and land transportation that we now have when the Earth runs out of oil. Basically what I'm saying is there will not be enough food to feed most of the people on Earth if we burn all the oil and don't have an energy source to replace it.

[r9119111]

Those who think global warming isn't happening are like drug adicts or alcoholics denying they have a problem. They will remain ignorant until they die or until they can admit what everyone else knew all along.

GLAC