What reasons are there to falsely purport man-made global warming?
Question by .: What reasons are there to falsely purport man-made global warming?
I guess I just don’t really see how any one can gain from “o man, we’re causing global warming. We better all start conserving…” On the other hand, fossil fuel producers/consumers have a lot to lose.
Best answer:
Answer by Dr Jello – AGW RIP 1980-2010
Fossil fuel producers make their money selling a product to people at market value.
Global warming fear mongers take their money from the tax payers by the use of force and give nothing in return.
Believers have much more to lose if they can’t get people to buy into this hoax.
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
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about 4 months ago
The Guardian newspaper reports that within a decade of being passed, cap and trade to lower carbon emissions would be a three TRLLION dollar market per year, every year.
Is that enough money for you? Alarmists are always banging on about what the evil oil companies will do for a few million, so what do you think energy companies, big banks and derivatives traders would do for TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS!?
about 4 months ago
Quite a bit to gain actually. Increased taxes, buying carbon credits. Basically it is a wealth redistribution scheme. The idea being for wealthy nations who have industry to buy carbon credits from poor nations that don’t. So they can go ahead and put out carbon the same as always. The only thing that really happens is the poor nations get paid for the industry they don’t have and the products they don’t produce. The extra taxes to be spent as foreign aid.
It boils down to welfare for poor nations. Or rather their leaders.
about 4 months ago
What the conspiracy theorists talking about carbon markets don’t understand is that it’s the climate scientists who are warning us about dangerous man-made global warming.
http://tigger.uic.edu/~pdoran/012009_Doran_final.pdf
Climate scientists don’t control carbon markets. And scientists who work for think tanks that are paid by oil companies make a lot more money than climate scientists who work for universities and other institutions on a fixed salary.
You’re trying to understand the logic of illogical people.
about 4 months ago
I’ve wondered this as well. The answers I hear most commonly are:
1. Money.
There are tens of thousands of climatologists and grad students studying our climate at this moment. If they publish findings in line with the consensus (that AGP is happening) nothing happens. If they take the anti-AGW stance, they get to be in that slim minority that gets to write books and be on Fox News every other week as an expert (and get to keep their tenured job).
For the associate professors making 80k a year, there is no money to be gained by fabricating a warming trend and plenty in disproving it.
2. Environmental extremism
This position argues that it’s made up by a bunch of tree-huggers who are fanatically devoted to the environment and that these “fanatics” made up global warming because they care about trees more than people.
This one’s bollocks too. Why would an environmentalist single out CO2 of all things as the problem if they CO2 doesn’t hurt anything? It also misses the entire point: nobody cares about trees, it’s human suffering we’re trying to prevent.
The AWG debate is much like the Evolution/creation debate. On one side we have a scientific consensus and millions of points of data, and on the other we have people who don’t believe it because it conflicts with their beliefs. Oddly enough, it’s the same people fueling both issues: Rush Limbaugh (Denies Evolution and AGW) Bill O’Reily (Denies Evolution and AGW) and Glen Beck (Denies Evolution and AGW).
about 4 months ago
It helps to get more and larger government grants so you don’t have to get a real job.
about 4 months ago
Global warming is a political tactic being used to exert control over businesses and individuals for the purpose of writing laws and collecting taxes. Carbon credits are one of the greatest scams in modern history. Global warming is a complete fraud that was invented to steal freedoms. The truly sad part is that many of the supporters of global warming are good people with their hearts in the right place but they are being used by politicians and don’t realize it.
about 4 months ago
To qoute Al Gore, “THEY PLAYED ON OUR FEARS!!!”
Global warming is just a means to an end for liberals. Name a type of liberal, and they can use global warming in an argument. Socialists want to bring down the corporations, and cap and trade can do that. Vegans hate meat, and they say meat causes global warming. Humanists don’t believe in God and think man is big enough to make or break anything.
about 4 months ago
It is all about MONEY, fame and power.
The money to be made in taxpayer-subsidized alternative energy schemes, carbon taxes (for politician’s pork projects…. for ‘buying’ votes), and scamsters like Al Gore who is personally making millions of bucks with the AGW hoax, is tremendous.
about 4 months ago
It’s twofold. Firstly there is the money component. For example, the carbon credits industry is a hundreds-of-billions of dollars per year industry. This is orders of magnitude more money than fossil fuel companies make. Cap and Trade would be just another odious taxation scheme that also does nothing for the environment. There is much money to be gained.
Needless to say, those who have the money also have the second component – control. The UN wants to rule the world, but the only way they can gain support and consent to become the singular sovereign governing body is by exploitation of everyone’s concern about the environment. So they launched their assault on capitalism under the guise of environmentalism. Devious and diabolical, but working quite effectively toward their goal.
The desire for money and power is the vice that has caused all of the suffering in this world since day one; and the only thing that has changed is the cleverness of the devices used to gain them.