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If Global Warming is real, why are so many lies told by believers/proponents?
If Global Warming is real, why are so many lies told by believers/proponents?
Start with Al Gore.
Continue with James Hansen.
Carry on with the UEA.
Again with the IPCC.
15 Answers
- SagebrushLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
Good question. Let us take a look at how one 'savior of the earth' reasons this out.
Quote from Monika Kopacz, atmospheric scientist: "It is no secret that a lot of climate-change research is subject to opinion, that climate models sometimes disagree even on the signs of the future changes (e.g. drier vs. wetter future climate). The problem is, only sensational exaggeration makes the kind of story that will get politicians’ — and readers’ — attention. So, yes, climate scientists might exaggerate, but in today’s world, this is the only way to assure any political action and thus more federal financing to reduce the scientific uncertainty."
Sensational exaggeration = lie
political action and thus more federal financing = means gaining power and getting our money. That is their end goal, not saving the earth.
Why do they have to lie? Because a lie repeated often enough becomes the truth or so these sick minds think. That may work in the advertising and public relations industry but definitely does not work in true science. they haven't found that out yet. Even though the earth has proven them wrong many times they still cling to their lies. That is all they have.
- ElizabethLv 78 years ago
How do you judge who is lying if you have no qualifications, experience, or training in the science being discussed?
It's like asking if your doctor is lying to you if he tells you you have cancer ... how do you know that unless you consult another doctor. And if 97% of the doctors you visit tell you that you have cancer, why listen to the 3% to form your opinion? The only way that would work is if you decide in advance that you don't have cancer and just listen to the 3% who tell you what you wanted to hear. That's not forming a balanced opinion. And if the 97% of doctors all show you an MRI scan of your tumor then the only way you can now maintain your delusion is to believe the 97% are lying to you, are incompetent and/or have fudged the data and/or are trying to get you to pay the additional costs involved in treatment. That would be a remarkably stupid position to hold since you are, in fact, judging the 97% of doctors despite not being a doctor yourself. And as you try to convince yourself and other people that you don't have cancer, and continue looking for doctors to tell you you don't have cancer, you could have been having chemo instead!
- Anonymous8 years ago
You make a claim and then offer no evidence to support your claim. Perhaps you have spent too much time consulting with Anthony Watts?
Al Gore is not a climatologist. He is a former politician. Name one politician that has never told a lie.
Show proof of the lies by the others and what did these lies relate to?
- JesseLv 48 years ago
There's a rather bad assumption in your question. Scientists are not " believers", but they base their understanding on observation and reason. Anthropogenic Global warming just happens to be the best explanation of the climate changes that we are experiencing.
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- 8 years ago
The question of whether lies have been told always yields a barren "yes-it-is-no-it-isn't". I prefer:
"If man-made global warming was taken seriously by its supporters they would advocate genuine solutions such as adding small amounts of iron to the oceans to cause the microscopic plants to multiply and absorb the carbon dioxide back into the biosphere whence it originally came.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization
A solution both practical and inexpensive.
Failing that, they would advocate replacing the base load electrical power generation with mass produced nuclear power plants as one of the quickest, cheapest and most effective means of reducing carbon emissions.
If its supporters don't take it seriously, why should anyone else?"
Although it is indisputable that when the weather turned cold we were warned that our wanton industrial prosperity was causing a man-made ice age. When the weather turned warm, we are told our wanton industrial prosperity was causing a man-made great flood and drought. Conclusion: they don't like our industrial prosperity and the environment is just a convenient scare tactic.
- Hey DookLv 78 years ago
Simple. YOU are repeating lazy anti-science lies. Hansen agrees with and is supported by nearly every top scientist in the world. Gore is not a scientist, though most leading climate scientists give his film high marks overall. Science does not depend on your stupidity and gullibility.
U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 2010:
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12782&...
“Climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for a broad range of human and natural systems.”
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsite...
“Choices made now about carbon dioxide emissions reductions will affect climate change impacts experienced not just over the next few decades but also in coming centuries and millennia…Because CO2 in the atmosphere is long lived, it can effectively lock the Earth and future generations into a range of impacts, some of which could become very severe.”
http://www.physics.fsu.edu/awards/NAS/
“The Academy membership is composed of approximately 2,100 members and 380 foreign associates, of whom nearly 200 have won Nobel Prizes. Members and foreign associates of the Academy are elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research; election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a scientist or engineer.”
Source(s): http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200602/bac... http://www.aip.org/history/climate/timeline.htm http://www.aip.org/history/climate/index.htm http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/12-02-08/#feature http://www.newsweek.com/2007/08/13/the-truth-about... http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/on... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial - Anonymous8 years ago
1. Have you ever harmed a human being, or, through inaction, allowed a human being to come to harm?
2. Have you ever harmed yourself or allowed yourself to be harmed except in cases where a human being would've been endangered?
If you answer no to both . . .
YOUR A ROBOT !
Source(s): wrong question damn! - pegminerLv 78 years ago
So many lies, and the only one that you managed to fit into the question WAS the question.
- ?Lv 78 years ago
Maybe you and other Deniers are just too stupid to to know who is lying.
I don't know which is worse: being the liar or the one stupid enough to believe the lie. It's your choice though. Just let us know which applies to you so we can be honest in our criticism.
- 8 years ago
why would scientists world wide agree to "lie".... since when do people in all areas of the world come up with the same answer anyways... who could convince everyone to go along with such a hoax?
umm maybe because they aren't lying!!! get your facts straight and look into this stuff yourself, there is plenty of proof and explanations that completely kill all of the opponents... and idk what "lies" you think the "believers" aka realists are saying, but research your facts first before believing whatever faux news tells you.