Global Warming Poll

[Fransisco]

Only reality is reality, perception can be any bloody thing anybody wants it to be.

[TOM4CWB]

Freewheat,

That was entertaining!

GRIN

However...

1.) It is not necessary to Change,

Survival is not Mandatory;

2.) I can't change the direction of the wind,

But I can adjust my sails;

3.) Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world,

Indeed they are the only ones that ever have;

***** If we don't regulate ourselves and what we do...

Someone else will! *****

Perception is reality... especially for the majority of the world population of humanity... which live in the coastal areas of this planet...;

Over 3 billion people... WILL be taken seriously... and a good chunk of them believe they are going under water in a few decades!

[mustardman]

If this was star trek Kirk would be saying "BEAM ME UP SCOTTIE THERE IS NO INTELLIGENT SIGN OF LIFE ON THIS PLANET "


C.P I vote for A.
We had a climate change meeting in town last week to do with studies on South Sask river basin.(The nobel prize was split between Al Gore and a number of scientists on an inter governmental panel,) we had some of those scientists in town .
I guess we should have invited some of these guys from coffee row and Mr Harper and Mr. Baird as well.

[silverback]

How does anyone know what the true global temperature is? How long has it been measured? Is it being measured accurately without outside interference? Are all areas of the world actually warming or not? If not, how can it possibly be called global warming?

The antarctic is cooling down and it's ice pack is getting thicker - how do you explain that? Record low temperatures recorded around the planet this year, how would global warming allow this to happen?

And as always, please explain how my tractor exhaust is warming the other planets in our system.

I am way more concerned about air and water pollution and noxious gases on our environment than a little more CO2 which will help my canola grow.

(and I think I also agree with agstar - I'll take a little extra global warming if it would mean I could avoid the middle of August frost that we seem to get more often than we want)

[mustardman]

Forget about August frost you'll be seeding in September or march so august frost won't be a problem.

I'd also like to know where you got the info that the ice pack is thickening?

[cottonpicken]

Remember this part in gores movie:

"out of 900 and some peer reviewed studies not one disagreed,out of the same number of media coverage stories over half disagreed"

Scientist only care about one thing-finding the truth.They dont let politics,religion,personal bias,folklore or anything else get in the way of the scientific process.

Doctors do doctoring,plumbers do plumbing,electician do electricianing,farmers do farming,lawyers do nothing usefull,why cant you guys trust the scientists who studie this stuff day in and day out.

[grassfarmer]

A qualified A from me - it is hard to be sure all/how much is being caused by man.
To dream that global warming may help us in this cold country by "warming things up a little" enough to maybe avoid August frosts is laughable. If you understand anything about the theories of the effect of global warming you would realise August frosts would actually be more likely, as would droughts, less snow in winter, monster rain events. A whole series of weather events that would bring great hardship to farmers in particular. But hell no, just stick with your flat earth theories - fire up the dually and convince yourselves it's not happening. Just don't go driving out on the "steadily thickening polar ice"!!

[bgmb]

CP

The other thing about scientists is they have a hard time saying "I don't know" They prefer to invent a theory that supports what is happening in the world around them.

I guess it would be ignorant of me to rule out man as a factor.

However I also think scientists don't understand what drives the natural temperature changes over time. They are working off a couple thousand years of data AT BEST. We live on a planet that is billions of years old.

It wasn't long ago in terms of the earths lifespan that most of manitoba was covered by lake aggazzi.

Man surely didn't cause those changes!

The problem in developed countries is that we believe we can control everything. We won't stop climate change no matter what we do the focus should be on adapting to it.

[gregpet]

CP go to the website http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/ and check out some real information about the politics of global warming and the suppression of opposing views.

For example: An open letter to the Secretary General of the UN;

The IPCC Summaries for Policy Makers are the most widely read IPCC reports amongst politicians and non-scientists and are the basis for most climate change policy formulation. Yet these Summaries are prepared by a relatively small core writing team with the final drafts approved line-by-line by government representatives. The great majority of IPCC contributors and reviewers, and the tens of thousands of other scientists who are qualified to comment on these matters, are not involved in the preparation of these documents. The summaries therefore cannot properly be represented as a consensus view among experts.

[...]

In stark contrast to the often repeated assertion that the science of climate change is "settled," significant new peer-reviewed research has cast even more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming. But because IPCC working groups were generally instructed (see http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/docs/wg1_timetable_2006-08-14.pdf) to consider work published only through May, 2005, these important findings are not included in their reports; i.e., the IPCC assessment reports are already materially outdated.


Signed by over 100 independent scientists, engineers and economists who work in the field of climate change.

[Lifer]

I vote d the letter after c