Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

Do the anti-climate change people feel ridiculous yet?

A couple weeks ago I saw a lot of questions regarding the really cold weather we'd been having. Today is supposed to be low to mid 50s in Washington, DC. It's the middle of January! I saw kids playing outside yesterday without coats. Is the current weather going to make people stop and think? I'm not saying global warming exists or not. I just got pretty tired of people jumping all over the climate change people when the weather got chilly.

Whether global warming is real or not, what's the harm in cutting pollution and greenhouse gasses?

Update:

A lot of people seemed to miss my point. I don't care if climate change is real or not. If the change in climate doesn't prove climate change, then why were so many people saying I told you so when it was 20 degrees outside?

And businesses that fail in changing times are businesses that failed to adapt. I haven't gone broke in my attempt to make my house more energy efficient. I'm willing to bet my capital is a lot less (percentage) than a lot of businesses out there.

12 Answers

Relevance
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Like any climatologist would say, temperature changes in the weather do not necessarily reflect the changes going on in our climate.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    If climate replace is laid low with human activity then why replaced into all and sundry all disenchanted in the process the 1980's approximately worldwide cooling? What got here approximately two decades later that now motives worldwide warming? If climate replace is led to via human beings how do you clarify the ice age? there have been few human beings around and no SUV's? have you ever no longer seen the present archives that shows we are as quickly as back trending in direction of worldwide cooling? Why can not you Liberals comprehend that some subject bypass in cycles, like the climate and the economic equipment, and there is fairly little all and sundry can do approximately the two?! Your top climate replace is genuine and measurable yet quite a few human beings don't think it is human led to yet is cyclical. Your top human beings do misinform teach their element although you look to basically prefer to have faith that folk who do no longer trust you're those mendacity. Al Gore the godfather of the present worldwide warming circulate has business enterprise investments from which he stands to make tens of millions of greenbacks if he can get enought human beings to have faith in it! additionally maximum of his action picture an In convient actuality has been shown incorrect or out top lies.

  • 1 decade ago

    Individual temperature records on any particular day are not the same as climate change. Warm days in January are not at all uncommon in the Northeast or even the Midwest. It is called the "January Thaw" and happens at some time every winter, though not always in January. Global Warming theorists have always predicted a dramatic global climate change which could result in unusually cold winters in some parts of the world, with unusually warm winters in others. The day to day temperature does not bolster the argument of either side of the debate. In the meantime it doesn't hurt to cut pollution.

  • 1 decade ago

    The harm depends on whether it is voluntary or not.

    If manufacturers are told to cut emissions by 50%, they might be left the option to reduce output (and therefore employment) by that amount. If they are told to save electricity, they might just stop running the factory after sundown, which also reduces employment.

    Want to be told you can't use a car unless there are two people in it?

    How are "efficiency" standards going to impact the cost of ALL new construction, including "Low Income Housing"? I suspect dwellings will be more expensive, meaning the subsidized housing is going to cost "somebody" more.

    Look, I'm no fan of Pollution. Ever notice that landfills aren't located near to expensive gated communities? NOBODY wants to live near a landfill.

    However, if you're going to use Force to control my "carbon footprint," then how hard would it be for you to Force me to live near a toxic waste dump?

    As a side note, I'm going to continue to laugh at the proponents of climate change until they realize how ridiculous THEY look believing fabricated data.

    And, yes, "I told you so."

  • How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
  • 1 decade ago

    We all know that climate change is a fact of life on planet earth.

    What we object to is the Al Gore's of this world wanting to control the future weather.

    It is purely political graft, a power grab and unscientific to have any faith in Al Gore and his elitist despotic friends running a world wide scam on the citizens of the all the worlds nations.

    Sorry to hear your are still falling for his fraud. Don't let it become economic extortion. Block the shifting of any power or authority from responsible thinking individuals to those tyrants.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No.

    There is no harm in cutting pollution, but that's a different topic from climate change that has nothing to do with the climate change (or Global Warming) myth.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The harm is you are making it more expensive to run a business here, crippling us even more when it comes to competing for manufacturing jobs with countries that don't have your ridiculous "climate change" laws. What's the harm? You are costing Americans their jobs!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    cutting pollution is always good. but if there is no green house affect then there is no green house gasses so obama doesn't need to make mine and yours energy bills skyrocket.

  • 1 decade ago

    well sweetie, as you can see, the weather does change, so i wouldn't be patting yourself on the back too hard.

  • 1 decade ago

    Tired Trucker is case and point of how americans can be frightened, misinformed, and duped. "it`s gonna cost us jobs" says the right. Its gonna cost us the phucking world, for cripes sakes? I thought the States was supposed to be a "world leader". if thats the case why are they being so selfish and spineless? absolutely shameful, no better than china or india.

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.