Article - Media Shows Irrational Hysteria on Global Warming

**size** · 12-07-2006, 11:14 AM

I have found the constant concern of global warming to be a rather odd phenomenom based on fear and conjecture. Contrastly, as some may remember, in the 1970s and early 1980s the fear was global cooling.

Here is a brief statement from the article:
"There is an overwhelming bias today in the media regarding the issue of global warming. In the past two years, this bias has bloomed into an irrational hysteria. Every natural disaster that occurs is now linked with global warming, no matter how tenuous or impossible the connection. As a result, the public has become vastly misinformed."

Link

**warnerve** · 12-07-2006, 11:49 AM

I read a thing about how Al Gore went to one of his speeches in a Toyota Echo or Prius, something like that, and had a motorcade of like 3 or 4 SUVS, a couple limos, and a large pickup truck.

**somewhatgifted** · 12-07-2006, 11:52 AM

Well it may be false hype , but on the other hand look at the changes this world has made to adapt to mankind, on a lesser note i do believe we are doing damage just on an immesurable scale.

**bioman** · 12-07-2006, 01:13 PM

It's simply because neither the media, nor the general public can digest the fact that this is a subject of ONGOING scientific research. Everyone wants to draw conclusions from that, be the first one to predict the outcome...and you cannot, simply cannot until we know more.

That said, there are alarming trends in climate data and it IS healthy to talk about them and perhaps prepare for certain outcomes, but no, hysteria is not warranted.

anabolicrhino · 12-08-2006, 06:47 AM

The members of the media feed their family by writing stories. There is no such thing as a day without news. If nothing of interest happens, then they just make up an interesting possiblity. The best stories are the ones that self-perpetuate, they create further dialog, which can be written about more extensively. This is job protection and is a necassary evil in the media. Stories about eviromental holocausts tend to miss the point by seperating humans from the rest of the planet.
Ultimately we are the world

rampage jackson · 12-30-2006, 02:42 PM

I don't profess to know anything, or be an ecologist...but didn't the scientist who came up with the concept of global warming later change his mind?

**Jayhawkk** · 12-30-2006, 03:00 PM

Maybe we don't impact anything on a global scale yet but we sure as hell do on a semi-locally scale. Ever been to DC or New York city on a hot summer day? There's ntohing wrong with trying to make things cleaner and the earlier we start the easier it will be to make any changes if it ever comes out one day that we do indeed make global changes.

TheMyth · 12-30-2006, 05:07 PM

ANyone stop to think for a minute that this has been going on throughout time? We go though ice ages, then it melts, then another ice age, then it melts completly again and so on. It's a never ending cycle, and right now it just so happens that we are in a drying out phase. In a few hundred years we will most likely go through another ice age as we will be further away from the sun again. Right now we are drawing closer to the sun. So in 200 or so years will we be blaming Bush for the ice age?

**Jayhawkk** · 12-30-2006, 05:22 PM

I don't think it's the blame game on any one person but people saying things like you just did are just as guilty as those screaming the sky is falling. There are levels of impact and action that do not have to be an extreme. "ice ages" did not change in just a few years.

The over all message shouldn't be overlooked here. We are growing and constantly using up more resources. Looking into alternate fuels and cleaner ways of living will make a difference one day. Why not start now and slowly work our way in that direction?

**jmh80** · 12-30-2006, 11:15 PM

We'll move in to the arena of alternative fuels when it is economic.

Unfortuneatly - it won't be a true free market response - the government will see to it that won't happen.

anabolicrhino · 12-31-2006, 11:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheMyth

ANyone stop to think for a minute that this has been going on throughout time? We go though ice ages, then it melts, then another ice age, then it melts completly again and so on. It's a never ending cycle, and right now it just so happens that we are in a drying out phase. In a few hundred years we will most likely go through another ice age as we will be further away from the sun again. Right now we are drawing closer to the sun. So in 200 or so years will we be blaming Bush for the ice age?

If he or one of his clones is still in office and the world is still using hydrocarbons as a fuel system? then, yes!!!

there are viable energy sources thjan can be developed to fruition.

Google or youtube; "free energy" or "zero point field" technology

the global warming hysteria is projected by corporate controlled
alphabet organizations like EPA and corporate owned politicians like Al Gore. The help perpetuate the illusion that the world's resurces are scarce and need to be rationed(sold to the highest bidder!) The green movement is part of the "problem" in the problem/ reaction/ solution control matrix

**jmh80** · 12-31-2006, 02:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by anabolicrhino

If he or one of his clones is still in office and the world is still using hydrocarbons as a fuel system? then, yes!!!

there are viable energy sources thjan can be developed to fruition.

Bush ain't got sh*t to do with petroleum based products ruling the transportation sector.

Companies are spending lots of $$$ researching alternative transportation fuels - it is just too damn expensive right now. A hydrogen based car would cost like 200 to 300 grand.
Do you want to pay that sort of money for a car? I sure as hell don't.

When something becomes cheaper - the market will move towards it.

**Jayhawkk** · 12-31-2006, 02:31 PM

Extremes on either side do nothing but harm the actual movement to a better environment. No "one" person is responsible or able to influence something as big as global fuel.

TheMyth · 12-31-2006, 03:57 PM

Anyone ever seen this, it's a part you put into your engine that turns it into a hydrogen using engine and you can actually get twice as much gas milage from it. I just read about this, there is one guy here in Sonoma County that has his car running with it in it, he said it does work like it says, and its only a $40 piece.

***HYDROXY***

Wondering if anyone else has heard of it.

anabolicrhino · 12-31-2006, 04:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jmh80

Bush ain't got sh*t to do with petroleum based products ruling the transportation sector.

Well,GWB himself may not be the lynch pin, but **** Cheney and his buddies are sure making alot of money in the transportation sector!

Companies are spending lots of $$$ researching alternative transportation fuels - it is just too damn expensive right now. A hydrogen based car would cost like 200 to 300 grand.
Do you want to pay that sort of money for a car? I sure as hell don't.

Cheney's deferred stock holdings gained 3000% in 2006.
he could afford a $300,000 car

When something becomes cheaper - the market will move towards it.

The market theory works best in a "free market" The oil market is the most artificial market ever concieved. The oil companies wield so much power,(distribution system) that only they can bring an alternative to the market. When they do it won't be cheaper. First oil prices will rise based upon the scarcity of the product. Then when the prices are at a market peak, the oil companies will release the new energy sources at an inflated price which they will justify as trying to recoup their development costs. Fuel will always cost more in the future because it is a means of control. We have been conditioned to expect certain price fluctuations, but ultimately the median price slowly rises. The price rises as inflation devalues your money, so we lose at both ends. So If we the end users are the losers who are the winners? Oil companies and banks. GWB is from oil money, just simple loyalty would lead me to believe he takes care of his own!