The human virus must be exterminated.

Period.

Glad to see the skeptics coming out. I thought for sure this comment box was going to be a one sided argument.

On one hand, you have the “geniuses” that don’t think it’s a problem no matter what you show them.

The other hand you have the delusional religious who think that their religions trumped up make believe god is going to fix everything and make their pathetic existences “special” again.

It seems that some of you need to step up and take responsibility, and if you can’t/won’t at least educate yourselves a little before commenting.

I WANT TO BELIEVE.

I DON’T WANT TO BELIEVE.

Jesus… this post brought out the idiots.

remember folks – cpu models do not equal scientific evidence! dur … I could make a cpu model which “proves”, given enough time, that a monkey will fly out of every polar bears butt! now that would be something!

Stew – got any data to back that up? ’cause the NOAA begs to differ

Sunspots work in 11-year cycles, but temperatures have been trending upward for a century (as far as we can tell). Now, I’m not saying this couldn’t be part of another natural cycle. This site has some nice graphs indicating temperature fluctuations over decades, centuries, and millenia.

James Schend – China and India aspire to join the “first world”. If the US doesn’t make a commitment to lower emissions, why should they?

Oh yeah, the video. What a terrible waste of great animation.

If we don’t change the way we live, it will just keep getting worse. Yes? Yes.

Should we change the we live, and start taking active steps to ensure the environment stays healthy, or should we continue to destroy it, and pollute our home? I guess this question is a matter of opinion.

Fake animals dying: LOL

Now if only we could get the rednecks living in trailer parks to do the same thing instead of popping out 10 kids and sucking up resources on welfare.

I hated this video. It’s not disturbing, it’s just pedantic, glossy, and unnecessary propaganda. Maybe I’ll watch it again with “That Was Just Your Life” playing to make it more entertaining or something.

By the way, I love polar bears too. They taste like pork.

I always felt that a lot of PSAs are too gimmicky or annoying to take seriously. Just look at those stupid singing angels in the Truth ads.

@ Gellner
That, my friend, is the funniest/truest thing Ive heard today!

Now, dont get me wrong, I love the polar bears! But as far as I know, they dont have any real natural enemies, do they?
Their enemy is the climate?
hmm… Think about it.

And before you attack me! I have not done my research,
This is my opinion!

It’s easy to make things black and white that– paint everyone that doesn’t take the fear mongering that the media feeds us at 100% face value as wasteful idiots that have no regard for anyone or anything but themselves. It is possible to care about what happens to the environment and still not buy the global warming dogma.

The problem with what you said above is that either you don’t know the meaning of the word “console” or you don’t understand what it means to not believe something (or both). From Webster’s Online: “to alleviate the grief, sense of loss, or trouble of : comfort “. Disbelievers are just that– they don’t believe, so they don’t feel guilt and need no consolation. Do athiests find ways to console themselves about not believeing in God? No. They don’t think they are turning their back on anything real. Same with those that don’t believe in global warming. Now, that doesn’t excuse the extreme and wasteful behaviors of some, but to lump all of those that are not in the global warming bandwagon is not fair or accurate. But, hey, if painting all of them as absolutely brainless idiots is the way you console yourself after finding out that those who disagree with you are intelligent people, then be my guest.

Screw polar bears. They’d eat us if they could. Kangaroos? There’s too many of them already. And chimpanzees just freak me out. They’re too much like us (only they’re dumb, so therefore expendable).

[Yes, I'm being sarcastic. It's sad when you actually have to say so, though.]

So why do denialists who make ridiculous statements think they are more informed on climate studies than the many who do it for a living?

Athon

Count me amongst the so-called ‘Middle Grounders’. Fact; the climate changes. Fact; anthropogenic activity contributes. Fact; the better of the models we have demonstrate the contribution is significant enough to cause slight increases in global temperatures. Beyond that, we run out of facts, and run into speculation. The truth is that our models, while constantly improving, are still too vague.

What won’t happen is ‘the planet will die’, ‘all animals will die (or want to die)’, ‘the end of the world’. The exaggerations, oversimplifications and the ridiculous idea that turning off a few light switches or not driving your car to work will help on iota does nothing but obfiscate the issue and create a sense of doing something.

What I want to know is what will we do when changes do happen? We spend so much time and money telling the average Joe to ride a bike, while in places like Australia we’re still scratching our heads over what to do about water. Let’s face it – climate change happens. Let’s deal with it.

Athon

A while back the temperature stations they were using for their “models” were located in the hottest places they could be, such as airports and on top of buildings. Gee, I wonder why those temperatures were hotter??? Now, they may have been changed since, but that was only 6-12 months ago.

Realistically, human impact on warming, shift, even cooling is minimal. That does not give us the right to disregard the issues. We should still recycle, get away from fossil fuels, stop polluting, etc…. but this is basically global housekeeping and it isn’t preventing the planet from doing what it’s going to do.

It’s best to be higher up on the evolutionary food chain.

Next time – evolve FASTER so you can adapt to (or change) the climate you require.

Look guys, the reality is that global warming has been politicized by the Left and won’t allow any discussion to the contrary. You don’t have to accept the party line on this one. Think for yourselves!

It takes almost 8 times the amount of plant protein to produce 1 pound of animal protein. That means if everyone stopped eating meat we could feed 8 times as many people with the same amount of production we have now.

I’m not saying you have to stop eating meat (although you should), but I think you should do some research before you try and bring it on.

Come on, Bring it ON!

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 18% of greenhouse gases are produced by livestock production, so you are most certainly affecting the environment by eating meat.

-Dave

What has changed in the last few months/years to prove Global Warming is all man made? What has made it tougher to find a leg to stand on? Polar Bears as a species are thriving, and are still growing in population. For every Iceberg/shelf that is seen melting, there is another one that is growing. There is a scary coincidence that the spots that occur on the sun align with the temperature change.

In fact, I feel that the Global warming advocates are having fewer and fewer legs to stand on. Hence why this is no longer being largely advocated as ‘Global Warming’ but now its ‘Climate Change’.

I for one proudly proclaim that I do not feel this so called climate change is man made. In fact I feel that blaming man for this change, instead of looking for other scientific explanations, is nothing more than false divine arrogance.

The point is that there’s no point in me, or the US for that matter, cutting pollution as long as “third-world” countries, like China and India, are allowed to do whatever the hell they want. Including dumping electronics into rivers, and expelling massive quantities of unfiltered smog from coal plants.

This, BTW, is one of the reasons the US never signed the Kyoto Protocol. It gave developing countries, the place where the problem *really* exists, a complete pass on reducing carbon emissions. It’s pointless for the US, already more efficient than China, should bend over backwards to be even more efficient while China does nothing.