Is the whole Global Warming scare based on faulty measuring equipment?

No. It is based on faulty science and fear.

There will always be slight errors in scientific measurements, it’s unavoidable. Does that change anything, or make it just a global warming scare? Absolutely not.

While global warming is debatable, endorsing environmentally friendly practices to reduce pollution and waste are not faulty goals.

Umm. Perhaps. But we should be scared anyway.

@The_Compassionate_Heretic I agree

They guy who runs the site..
http://bit.ly/103PL2
I have my doubts.

Watts became a television meteorologist in 1987 when he joined KHSL-TV, a CBS affiliate based in Chico, California. After working at KHSL for 17 years, he left in 2004 to became the radio meteorologist for KPAY-AM, a Fox News affiliate also based in Chico, California. Watts also operates several companies that make weather graphics systems for use on television broadcasts.

Yes. I can’t get a link that works, but that is the one.

@YARNLADY :: I know.. It had parenthesis in it so it broke. I updated it.

“Global warming” is an oversimplification of what we are really doing to our environment.

Anthropogenic climate change cannot be explained away by faulty equipment, and is agreed upon by every national and international scientific body in the world.

It is completely mindblowing to me that anyone would continue to doubt that this is happening.

Right. Hundreds of prominent physicists, climatologists and (real) meteorologists are stupidly wrong, but a television meteorologist has it all nailed down. ~

I don’t know.

But I think that even if there’s just a remote possiblity the earth’s ecosystem is going to collapse because of the global warming, we should do our utmost to prevent it.

We won’t be here to see it maybe, but that’s not an excuse to live our life without doing anything. It’s a win win strategy. If in the end is just ‘scare’ and nothing more, well, we will laugh about it and pass it over.

@Blondesjon You state that global warming is “based on faulty science and fear”. I would be grateful if you would more thoroughly and scientifically debunk the global warming “scare”, focusing directly on how and why the “science” is “faulty”.

Since the beginning of time there have been dramatic climatic upheavals, so it probably is happening again. The real question is why? There are many scientists and they have differing ideas on cause and cure or even if there is a cure.

But Compassionate Heretic makes a good point, so stop buying stuff packaged in plastic! I was in a store today and the plastic looking bag is actually make of corn starch and will eventually dissolve. At least that is what the clerk told me, I will have to do a little research on it. For obvious reasons, I suppose it couldn’t be used for liquids!

“Is the whole Global Warming scare based on faulty measuring equipment?”

No. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/about/response-v2.pdf

@shilolo . . . Nah. I’ll stick with the same broad, sweeping statements that both sides of the global warming debate employ.

irl i could care less. let the grandkids take care of it.

Absolutely not. There is just too much real-word evidence to support the idea of global warming. Such as the melting ice caps. Ever watch anything on those poor polar bears? It’s pretty scary.

Anyhow even those who don’t believe in global warming should give into the good fight. The idea is to raise awareness about environmental issues, global warming or not. We really seriously need to start looking at how our poor environmental practices are affecting the Earth. The Earth cannot sustain this forever. Even those who don’t believe in global warming should be able to back this up.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.

@kevbo Have you read the sources of that article?

@RedPowerLady, I’m not sure I understand what you mean. There’s a bibliography link of sources at the bottom that lists mostly mainstream publications from which the content of the article was derived.

@kevbo I just thought it was interesting that the majority of resources were from newspapers and magazines. The amount from scientific publications was very small.

”Fortune magazine actually won a “Science Writing Award” from the American Institute of Physics for its own analysis of the danger. “As for the present cooling trend a number of leading climatologists have concluded that it is very bad news indeed,” Fortune announced in February 1974.”

I wonder how many scientific journals factor in the military’s pursuit of weather control.

@kevbo Award winning magazine or not, I prefer studies using the scientific method to determine scientific matters. Also fortune magazine was only cited three times if I am correct.

Interesting idea about military’s influence on weather control. Still would be man made effects on climate change however which part of the article argues is not the case.

It must be true, Al Gore wouldn’t lie…....would he????

There is no global warming scare or climate change scare. There’s only pseudoscience and hidden political agendas. As Michael Shermer pointed out:

Bold Statements Do Not Make Claims True — L. Ron Hubbard called Dianetics “a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the arch.” But it wasn’t. The more extraordinary the claim, the more extraordinary well-tested the evidence must be.

Global warming deniers use bold statements.

Coincidence — Most people have a very poor understanding of the law of probability. Say you are about to make a call and as your hand touches the phone they call you. How could that be a coincidence? It must be ESP. We forget about the other thousand times we call someone and they don’t call us first. You make 5 baskets in a row, and you’re “on fire.” But statistically your chances are the same as a coin-flip. The human mind looks for patterns and often finds them when there are none. Hasty Generalization — Also known as prejudice, or drawing conclusions before the facts warrant. A couple of bad teachers and it’s a bad school. A couple of bad cars and that brand of automobile is unreliable.

Global warming deniers point out this or that winter was much colder than usual. There is no global warming.

Come on, all the reputable German climatologists say climate change is real and it’s highly likely that human use of fossil fuels contributes to it.