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Originally posted by Solomons
Can any person who knows much about the global warming phenomena answer my question about the permafrost in siberia? wheres melatonin when you need him....
Originally posted by jdub297
You don't have to be afraid of warming, just that we've wasted time and money fighting something that doesn't exist when they could've been devoted to a real problem we could do something about.
Originally posted by Raud
Ehm, I was thinking I will make a separate thread with this question, but I will first try to get some answers here...which would be nice n'all.
So What if There isn't Global Warming?
What is the so called swindle? What is being "swindeled"?
What is the scam?
What harm could it do to stop using fossile fuels?
What is wrong with stopping the pollution? Burning coal and oil does alot more damage than just CO2 emissions.
What is wrong with abandoning the wreckless behaviour towards our planet?
So to all of you who think that the whole GW-deal is a scam, hoax, swindle or whatever: what is the big issue? What is your fear? What could these policies harm, what does it threaten?
Personally, I can't see any reason, what so ever not to stop the pollution and move away from this dead-end that fossile fuel-addiction brings.
If GW is not real, why can't we just pretend that it is real, just to prevent it from ever becoming anything?
I think the denial of GW is mostly consistant of a) fear b) the need to be dissident just for the hell of it c) incompetence.
Many questions here, so you see why I wanted to start a thread...
If this post remains unaswered, I will do it.
Pz.
Originally posted by alienesque
well..aside from the point that the truth is important...the scam is the coming carbon tax...maybe in the future we will travel restrictions...the poor countries are being kept poor...kids are being or ae going to be told to spy on their parents under the guise of preventing global warming....
theres scams all over regarding global warming...
Originally posted by Raud
Originally posted by alienesque
well..aside from the point that the truth is important...the scam is the coming carbon tax...maybe in the future we will travel restrictions...the poor countries are being kept poor...kids are being or ae going to be told to spy on their parents under the guise of preventing global warming....
theres scams all over regarding global warming...
Eh, what???
Let's tax the hell out of it. It will make us change focus and develop better, cleaner and most of all cheaper energy (at least in the long run). What can we possible lose from doing that? What grinds the gears are cheap, greedy people afraid of change. Just as always. It is my planet too you know!
The other factors you mentioned makes no sense at all. It sounds more like the worst case of ill-directed paranoia I have ever heard.
It is not communism we are talking about here. Get out from under whatever stone you are hiding beneath.
Poor countries are being kept poor for other reasons.
Originally posted by alienesque
so governments lying is ok?
odd...
'Poor countries are being kept poor for other reasons.'
that doesnt make sense...poor countries are being kept poor party BY the threat of global warming...not BECAUSE of it..
Originally posted by Raud
Originally posted by alienesque
so governments lying is ok?
odd...
'Poor countries are being kept poor for other reasons.'
that doesnt make sense...poor countries are being kept poor party BY the threat of global warming...not BECAUSE of it..
Lying governments are never ok. But first we need to see if there is a lie here or not. I see pictures of melting polar ice. I see melting glaciers in South America and in the Far East. I see entire nations in Micronesia succumbing to rising water levels. Can't you see that?
So you say that poverty did not exist prior to the GW-debate? And how would you develop the idea that the GW "scam" is causing poverty? It is not due to that GW causes misgrowth in crops? Because of more rain falling in places where those periods are heavier and vice-versa?
You posts are to little use, if any at all. None of my questions answered.
Originally posted by ahnggk
It exists and it's REAL, if you've not been to other parts of the world for a span of time, you may not feel it all.
BUT it's also true that we've wasted time and money in 'fighting' the problem because we're doing it all wrong. Or possibly, it's too late to do anything about it. The problem is not money but the people who got the money and has kept the masses in the dark.
Originally posted by Raud
reply to post by alienesque
So with that said you justify that we stick to oil, gas and coal for all eternity because there is nothing bad with that? There is no senseible threat to the enviroment at all?
I want to know why some sorry individuals fear with the whole debate. Are you anti-development? Can't you see that alternative energy sources would cut costs? Just look at regular gasoline for your car: how much do you spend on that? What if we could get rid of it? Replace it with something clean, cheap, hell, even free fuel? What is the issue?
at all.
Originally posted by Raud
reply to post by Nineteen
Not that this reply gave me any useful information what so ever, but it did strengthen my ideas about the "GW-is-a-scam:ers"...
I must agree though that these "emission rights", I don't know the correct terms in english, is a blow into thin air. First of all, they are way too cheap so companies can pollute as much as they use to, and the ones who reach their goals can give to others, forming a kind of pollution cartel.
To stop this fossile-thinking, we need to act hard, brutal even. This obsolete system of energy needs to be ridden of just like a drug addict needs his syringe removed and destroyed. There is no easy way out.
So you claim that the entire deal with GW is so that the people you mentioned can put the money in their own pocket? Make perfect sense. Not.
Man! Do I have to wait until night before I can get a sensible debate happening here? Geeez...
Originally posted by ReelView
I'm pretty sure one of the long term agendas of the "Global Warming" movement is to tax people for the air they breath. The Al Gore electrostatic towers for example. Assorted rationals for why people must eventually pay to breath air. This really translates into life time slavery like property taxes and the like.