What reason could there possibly be why most all scientists agree man made global warming is real?

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I hear ya, this forum is blowing my mind. I have never seen such organized misinformation in my life anywhere except for intelligent design proponents. What profound arrogance does it take for a lay person to think they can come up with a 5 second answer that trumps mounds of peer reviewed science journal articles. "Its cold outside", "have you ever heard of the sun" etc.... I am hoping these are teenagers or children who have borrowed daddy's computer.

Follow the money (as the denialists say). The one's who have the most to lose are the one's with the loudest voices- the right wing pundits and talk show hosts who champion corporate interests. They feel incredibly threatened by all this and can't speak a sentence without mention "Al Gore" with disgust, as if Al Gore single handedly invented the idea of global warming and hypnotized thousands of free thinking scientists to believe him will nilly.

No, all you see on the flip side is ignorance, distractions, character assassinations and purposeful misinformation. Even right wingers like Thomas Friedman and Newt Gingrich have publicly declared that the right wing's pointless denial of AGW is going to end up hurting them.

Let us just pause to remember that the U.S. has some of the lowest, if not THE lowest science and math scores in the developed world. This is perfect fodder for propaganda. Their minds are easily susceptible....Show more

Hi Bob, i noticed you don't say 99%. Good job. Later bro.

oh, here is a repost on the "Conspiracy Theory" thingie.

Oh my you finally brought up the “conspiracy theory” in a question. So where do I start? You are talking to the same crowd that usually does not believe in conspiracy theories. Let’s face it the good theories like “The Luna landing was faked” and “Kennedy was shot by multiple people” are already taken by the left side of the fence. Usually they are the ones that are a little radical on the left side. The ones on the side of the fence, that don’t believe global warming is man made, are quite a different crowd. They are usually a little conservative and closer to the middle of the road. Do we believe scientists? Yes. However this whole thing is being blown out of proportion by the press, politicians, and bureaucrats. Do any of them lie to us? Only when their lips are moving! The press loves this because bad news sells, the politicians have a great political forum and the bureaucrats need their jobs. Do they lie, not necessarily; they just propagate off each other. It is pretty common. Now too many people have jumped on this bandwagon. People get all emotional about the issue which propagates it further. We have proof in society that this happens, Just look at the McCarthy and his which hunts, Americans became crazy with the anti-communist propaganda. Or how about how George Bush worked up the American public after 9/11, every one was so ready to accept the Patriot Act that they never considered the consequences. He was able to ride that wave of Patriotism from Afghanistan right into Iraq. That, my friend, is what is going on here....Show more

In 2003 two German environmental scientists, Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch conducted a survey of climatologists from all over the world. Bray is a research scientist at the GKSS Institute of Coastal Research in Geesthacht, Germany. Von Storch is a climatology professor at the University of Hamburg and director of the Institute of Coastal Research. More than 530 climate scientists from 27 different countries provided numerical answers each time the survey was conducted. All responses were anonymous.

The question “do you agree or disagree that climate change is mostly the result of anthropogenic (man made) causes?” Slightly more than half (55.8 percent) of climate scientists surveyed agreed, 14.2 percent were unsure, and 30 percent disagreed. So it is not 99% as you have claimed in the past.

Of those that strongly agree only 9.4% strongly agree. In other words on 9.4% are of the opinion that AGW is a no brainer as you have also stated in the past.

It is important to note that the heatland institute did not commission this study. They are just interpreting the facts. If you think they are misleading in their interpretation please state so, and do not attack the heatland institute.
http://downloads.heartland.org/2086111.pdf...Show more

(Bob) I read the first link in part and got a little bored.I don't really want to split hairs...not my thing.I noticed they didn't included individual or self selected scientist.The assessment factors had a wide variability, so much as to make it pointless.That was just a scan and I didn't go into depth.
For the gist of your question I've always agreed with the awareness factor.This also means checks and balances need to be placed...no argument there.But I also know
explaining interactions will take more then man has to offer.

Edit:(1) Yes I will agree with one mad self proclaim scientist. "It is laughable". One simple request from the rest of us...Being that you have these God like powers and arrogance above reproach....why don't you just make another planet? I'll even make it simpler then that... create a blade of grass.

Edit:(2) This was directed at a poster and not you. I've read some really lame stuff from this individual.

Edit:(3) There's a lot of poster's that are confused about CO2 verses CO....big difference....Show more

I wouldn't call it a no brainer it just happens to be the best explanation.. but does that actually make it so. There are good skeptic papers (very few and far between) and there are some AGW papers to hit home as well. This is the best theory at the moment, but I'm sure something else will come up in the near future that will propose a different cause that everyone else will jump to. I'm still not sold on the theory. Also you have to know that once a certain theory gets as much credit as the AGW theory then everyone has no choice but to jump on and agree. Especially politicians and world leaders, they definitely have to jump on board or face harsh criticism and possibly be forced to change there point of views. As far as the scientific organizations, well that must be there belief, but does it actually make it fact. There's plenty of unsolved mysteries in the scientific world, science changes everyday, one theory that you have believed to be right for centuries can be found to be incorrect in a blink of an eye. Also the problem with most scientist including myself, they can't fathom not knowing how something works, and there is still so much that we do not understand about the atmosphere and other physical aspects of the environment, that for once it may be in the best interest to say that GW at this time and age that some things just can't be explained. But for the sake of pollution and being environmentally friendly, we should adopt these green ways to save money and energy, but I'm not sold on it curving the temperature....Show more