Poll: Whats your take on global warming

[sgreger1]

Curiouse what everyone thinks

[chainsnuser]

Man-made Global warming has been predicted since the first part of the nineteeth(!) century by scientists and the topic was heavily explored and discussed since the early 1970's. This certainly is no bogus-propaganda, but I also don't think that we can do anything against it, realistically. All these promotions for fuel-effective cars are pretty much nonsense, they should have been promoted a hundred years ago, not now, when it's already too late to do anything.

Natural warming periods and ice ages have occured numerous times but the changes haven't been noticeable within a single persons lifetime. The climate was totally different when I was young and I live probably in one of the most climatically balanced spots of the world (central europe). Again, I don't think that this is bogus-propaganda to fool the people to buy new cars.

Cheers!

[sgreger1]

Man-made Global warming has been predicted since the first part of the nineteeth(!) century by scientists and the topic was heavily explored and discussed since the early 1970's. This certainly is no bogus-propaganda, but I also don't think that we can do anything against it, realistically. All these promotions for fuel-effective cars are pretty much nonsense, they should have been promoted a hundred years ago, not now, when it's already too late to do anything.

Natural warming periods and ice ages have occured numerous times but the changes haven't been noticeable within a single persons lifetime. The climate was totally different when I was young and I live probably in one of the most climatically balanced spots of the world (central europe). Again, I don't think that this is bogus-propaganda to fool the people to buy new cars.

Cheers!

The first cars were made to run off ethanol, but the petrolium giants had this waste product which was a biproduct of the refining process which they needed to get rid of, since it was flamable and could be used as a gas for cars they lobbied to make gasoline the primary thing that cars run off of and won. Its win win for them they make money and they get to get rid of this waste product which we then burn into the atmosphere.

I believe global warming and we surely play some part in it but I think that it is being blown out of proportion so they can use it as another excuse to add a carbon tax now.

Al gone is testifying to congress soon and they will not let all the scientists who disagree with his stance testify also because they are trying to shut down opinion and trying to make it seem that the scientific community is unanymous on the issue which they are not.

[Sacrilicious]

Obviously we should try to lessen our impact on the environment and not spew as much toxicity into the atmosphere. But I really don't think that carbon taxes and more legislation are going to be beneficial in the long run.

I voted "Other/Don't Care".

[Royksprekk]

I'd vote somewhere between the first two options.

Global warming is real; and it's a combination of natural ups and downs in global cycles that we humans have a noticeable effect on.

My annoyance begins when people start acting like we need to save the Earth. It doesn't need saving. The Earth has been through much more climate change than what we are currently experiencing in the past, and will continue to in the future.

We are unique as a species in that we are capable of both having an impact on this cycle and recognizing it. It is humankind's duty to make an effort to use our awareness to sustain our way of life, but really, we're just an episode on the channel that is Earth. Somewhere down the line (and it's going to be a while), conditions here probably won't support our way of life. In the meantime, all we can do is try to maintain it.

And when that happens, a new paradigm of life will exist. It won't be the end of the world, just us.