Global cooling?

[YummiestBeef]

Well if someone is to look at the past (im talking as far back as possible) they can see that climate shifts have occured before and will continue to occur. Global Warming is a natural occurence but humans arent helping matters. Just my $.2

[Aikman_TheGreat]

I really havent done alot of research on the topic, like i should. But my first instinct on anything Al Gore says is him just needing attention haha. Like how he invented the internet. And Man-Bear-Pig (lol that one was a joke).

But i did hear an interesting point: http://http://www.usatoday.com/news/...re-green_x.htm

[mikesilvia]

That's how I view it. I am no expert and can't make any claims as to how much we have affected it through bad environmental practices, but it can't hurt to take reasonable steps to protect the environment as much as possible. We should be able to do this voluntarily without government aid, but government always intervenes anyway..I guess it could be spending on much worse things (and goodness knows government does) than global warming.

I agree! If you asked to place a tax on gas or other items and told me the money would go towards preserving the environment, cleaned our rivers, cleaned landfills and other ways to clean our planet for our children I would gladly pay a tax on gas or other areas. What I disagree is trying to reduce carbon that is natural in the environment and the studies are inconclusive that spending trillions will actually do anything.

We should also spend billions on finding alternative fuel sources to get us off the Middle east nipple. Being reliant on Saudi Arabia and other Middle East countries is one of the main reason we went to war in Iraq. Get us off oil and we may prevent future conflicts or another OPEC embargo.

Stopping "global warming" is more of a political way to punish capitalism in my opinion. It targets cooperations and damages our economy. Again, if the money and measures were to clean our environment against pollution then I would be for it. But reducing carbon or something natural just to make us feel better doesn't make sense to me.

If you want to stop global warming you need to destroy the sun or drain the Pacific Ocean into the hot core of the earth. :)

[mikesilvia]

Remember how Ethanol was suppose to be the saving grace? Read on!

The widespread use of ethanol from corn could result in nearly twice the greenhouse gas emissions as the gasoline it would replace because of expected land-use changes, researchers concluded Thursday. The study challenges the rush to biofuels as a response to global warming.

Full story here.

Confused and even more skeptical as I am? :)

[OnePimpTiger]

Scientists (most anyway) are some of the most egotistical and narrow-minded people in the world...that's my thoughts on the subject.

In the 1800's, scientists had figured a bunch of stuff out that they KNEW was FACT and they laughed at what the scientists in the 1700's thought. In the 1900's, scientists figured out a bunch of stuff that they KNEW was FACT and they laughed at what the scientists in the 1800's thought. Now, scientists are figuring a bunch of stuff out that they KNOW is FACT and they're laughing at how ignorant the scientists in the 1900's were....In fact, I've heard that in the 1970s or 1980s (can't really remember which), there was this big deal about how the Earth is heading towards another Ice Age...how'd that turn out?

My point? Looking at history and how many scientific theories and facts have been proven not only wrong, but laughable, why would you possibly think you've figured everything out and that it's even close to fact?

Regarding global warming specifically, haven't scientists "proven as fact" that we came out of an ice age recently (relatively speaking)? So Earth's temperature has increased quite a bit over a long amount of time in order to do that right? Why would you think that the temperature is going to just stabilize all of a sudden because humans are here now? Of course it's going to continue getting warmer... We may be adding to it some, but I'd say it's just as likely that we head into another Ice Age before global warming becomes a major problem.

My personal opinion, when scientists think they have something figured out, God changes it just to screw with them.