It's not about ignorance, it's about me using resources around me to make my life better. I will not be having kids and dont really care if anyone ever procreates again. Why does everyone have this obsession with thinking that the human race is important in some way?

I would think they are doing the bast for them in there life which is the logical thing to do.

The information he is using is incomplete (and perhaps outdated) at best, but it certainly does not conflict with itself at all. In fact, most of what he's been saying has been high school lesson material for Dutch students for decades already. He's only making a fool out of those who don't know this already by painfully showing how little the average American knows about this subject.

The fact that he made it a 'hot topic' is severely overrated in the whole debate anyway, let alone the fact that he did not do the research and he did not come to the conclusions he is propagating to as many people as possible. So.. I don't think he should be credited for any of that. In a way I agree he should just zip it, as he's making money off of this now.

It's almost plain stupid to attack him claiming he doesn't know what he's talking about. In fact, the irony in comments like those is that the basic idea when it comes to global warming is actually extremely easy to grasp, let alone that most naysayers do not know anything about the topic at all, but just feel threatened. :p



I could ask the very same thing about why people are obsessed with religion and Gods and all that. Trust me, there's no easy answer.

I think most people do have this idea that we can mean something by acting in a certain way. Basically changing the world to maximize what we can get out of it, is a great idea. Don't forget people are already dying because of over-pollution...

Personally, I think most of the people making the big noises on this subject,
are the sort of people who can make money JUST by making big noises...

Which is always a shame, because people on both sides of this topic have relevant things to say. If Al Gore really thought the topic was important, he shouldn't even have asked money for his 3rd grade power point presentations for sure. Making the global warming a very commercial thing already backfires like crazy.

It's stupid.

1) It is the chemical nature of the molecule to act as a greenhouse gas.
3) Sorry, from what I read, the sources I have seen look way more valid - they actually show the scientist's name who's presented the 'facts'. A politicians view is more biased for self gain than scientists who spend years researching the topics. I'm sure you will find 'proof' that the moon is actually purple somewhere out there ^^



I'm sure if you were stuck in a collapsed building, and someone has a chance to help you, but would rather go home and not miss the next episode of "House", you would not make that claim. Note the stupid alternative here - watching TV. As a whole, we need to do very little to attempt to prevent climate change.



I do not blame scientists for making noise about it? Them more than anyone would know how to interpret gathered data, and if they see a potential disaster to our environment, good on them for letting us know. It's just that it is inconvenient as we must make a compromise on our lives, which many sadly are unable to commit to.

yes, but if I was stuck in building 5,000 years later, and he could never drive his car again, or use a plastic bag, or use hairspray, or have an efficient power planet that he didnt have to pay a fortune to every month, to save someone that doesnt even exist yet. then no, I wouldnt care.

The simple fact that some people are making money off going green doesn't invalidate the issue. Sure, there are apt to be some snake oil salesmen, and some hype by those who want to make money but that has always been the case around every major issue or advance. In fact the possibility that industry will make some money is good - it offsets the argument from people complaining about the cost.

Even if you think this is 'fake' prudence suggests that if we err on the side of caution at worst we end up with a cleaner and less polluted planet. However if we are mistaken about the seriousness of the issue, and chose to ignore it, then we could destroy the planet.

It helps to remember we are basically floating on a rock with a thin skin of life. It is unlikely that a rescue ship will rush emergency supplies to us if we screw up.

I think you're underestimating the change needed to counter or prevent climate change.

Personally I think it's stupid to want to 'prevent' climate change. That's unlikely to even be possible as it's also a natural event. But there are certainly things like over-pollution and burning up of fossil fuels that can be reduced or changed...

But really... I don't see any sign of oil companies even wanting to change their way of making money. I'm sure the consumers will make sure all the oil will be gone before the more serious steps are being made changing to electric or bio-fuel cars.

After all, who's controlling the market? Automobile companies and oil companies and because there are a whole lot of people who drive cars, there will be a huge demand for fuel.

Changing that would mean changing cars of billions of people. That's simply not going to happen before the oil is gone.

Dont be sorry, you have earned your opinion by reading more than newspapers and TV.
Im not saying THE piece of paper Fielding is waving is important, but look back
for the documents it was pillaged from.

1) Im not saying its not a "greenhous" gas, but on a global scale, there are many natural factors resisting it.
After all, if CO2 has TRIPLED in the last 30 years, why havent we seen any "significant" climate change?
(PS Im freezing my tits off here while typing this!)
3) I saw this information YEARS ago, in scientific journals, not the daily telegraph.
Back then it did have scientists names attached to it, long before Fielding started waving it around.

After all who is to say the whole climate-change issue isnt the same as ONE article I saw over 10 yars ago.
A well-documented, researched and endorsed study by a well-respected (by scientists) article that showed
conclusivly that WATER CAUSES CANCER !!!! Since when he has never been heard of again.
Now either scientists are human and can make mistakes, or there is a conspiricy to hide
the dangers of water. Make up your own mind.

Any climatologist would argue 30 years is by far not long enough to be able to say anything useful about climate change in the long run. 30 years on a couple of billion years is nothing.

In fact, looking back at information about past time climate changes, we're really not in any danger at all. Did you know it used to be a whooping +10 degrees Celcius hotter in most places on Earth a couple of million years ago? Oh, and it had more to do with the Earth's orbit around the Sun and volcanic activity (plate tectonics-related stuff) than anything different.

I'm not convinced our current influence is a big as those two factors in the old days used to be.

Then again, obviously things will go wrong from the moment where our influence turns out to be irreversible.