Are you mad? Your article cites no scientific evidence whatsoever. The evidence for global warming is overwhelming.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article516033.ece

Global warming is quite real, and most every respectable scientist believes it. The few remaining quacks who still deny it are paid by the coal mining industry.

You are just wrong. Fine choose not to believe in global warming if you don’t want to. But temperatures have been rising meaning more days with temperatures over 90 degrees, meaning a decrease in milk production in cows, a dying out of certain breeds of plants and oh yeah health problems from the heat for our children and even worse for our children’s children and so on. Global warming is happening-whether you choose to beleive it or not.

The foolishness of mass transit over the long haul costing less than cars and light trucks is obvious when one looks at mass transit moving on schedule, full or not, compared to cars and light trucks choosing to go full or not. My guess is that cars and light trucks are driven only when needed by people who pay for the fuel. Explain cost and need to people who run mass transit, especially especially that run by government.

Even if rail transit is more polluting than SUVs, SUVs are clearly more polluting than sedans and, depending on where the power used in refining the gasoline comes from, even coal fired electricity for EVs can be less polluting than gas powered cars. Natural gas electricity generation and, even more so, renewable generation for EVs is clearly the best.
Getting back to your headline, science never absolutely proves anything, but the evidence for global warming is strong. The great majority of glaciers are melting. Arctic ice has recently been thinner than has ever been seen. Animals are hibernating less. The widely accepted conclusion is that global temperatures have risen and that there is no plausible cause other than the increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gases, which have the undeniable effect of trapping heat in the atmosphere.

Reputable scientists who expess doubts about anthropogenic climate change do so with the argument that the measured warming has other causes, but none of their alternatives actual denies greenhouse gas warming, only that other causes might be stronger. The proposals I have seen are water vapor, cyclic earth orbital changes, other, unspecified, natural changes of millenial duration, and cosmic ray reduction due to deflection by solar winds. These and, I believe, any others can be discounted. (This is already far too long, so I’ll leave you to respond if you doubt any of what I have asserted.)

Regards,
Norm Rhett

Let’s face it…evidence or no evidence…we are polluting our earth. A prime example…driving from a nice clear sky in northern New England, into New Jersey where the sky is yellow and not just the sun…the entire sky and not just on one day…every day.

Global warming is real…you, however, are not.

Global warming is actually just away to make a fast buck…

Ok so the reduce the carbon output…In doing so something else will pop up…Because life truly never dies it just transforms into something different in form..

So say we do reduce are carbon foot print.. Carbon is here for a reason..It helps balance things out in the univerisal cycle of things… Have they ever figured out what will happen if we reduce the carbon output on earth what it will do to earth itself balance of things..I think not….

These idiots in political offices say lets go green.. it will save us all.. The want to use ethanol and other resources..They says it’s the way to go.. All these things are manmade.. So they effect the environment is others ways that we truly don’t have a fraking idea of the outcome..It’s all a guessing game being performed by so called experts to make a fast buck…and con the average joe out of a dollar..

where is YOUR proof?? some citations and actual NAMES of the alleged “scientists” would go a long way to supporting YOUR assertions…furthermore, you want me to believe a BUSINESS JOURNAL editor on the environment???

whether or not global warming is real doesn’t matter – we ARE drowning in refuse and pollution…from pharmaceuticals in our drinking water, to oceanic dead zones, to pcbs in puget sound…we ARE killing ourselves and our planet, and if you can’t see that we have no hope.

WOW. Well, how about you and Senator Imhoff from Oklahoma (Go Sooners) and some OIL, COAL Execs try a few things out this summer – 1) Measure the glacial retreat of Kilimanjaro, Glacier Nat’l Park, or just about anywhere your TWO CENTS will get you. 2) The next time a cholera outbreak occurs after a CAT 5 hurricane tears thru another region and goes un-named because we’re exceeded our nomenclature system for seasonal hurricanes, go volunteer there, in fact DRINK THE WATER. Okay, last one, head to the Arctic and start saving Polars Bears that drown out at Sea because the Ice Floes are melting at such a rapid rate. I hear they’re very docile when exhausted and near comatose, if they’re still hungry, well I don’t want to say…BECAUSE ALL OF THE SCIENTIFIC DATA about them must be wrong too… Hmmm, maybe maybe GW is addressed in the Bible . . .with ducks… U QUACK!

Well, you got your attention, you happy now?

The deniers are at it again. They denied the earth was round, they persecuted Gallileo for saying the earth revolves around the sun. In later years they opposed vaccination for children and flourination of water. Now when the leading world climatologists, supported by 95 percent of their peers and the scientific community, are warning of global warming and its hazards, the doubters attack their credibility. The prose, of the author of the lead article betrays the fact, that he is confused of the meaning of the terms and is not scientifically trained

obviously someone who works in the coal industry wrote this lol

The earth is doing well, that the increase in temperature is one degree. The increase is due to earth’s change in rotational axis, something that occurred centuries ago. Star formations are a measure of earth’s slight rotation change, and changing ice caps support the event Humans cannot change this slight change in earths magnetic shift.

The errattic weather will continue as long as the earth veers away from normal pattern of rotation. Don Moore

Over 31,000 scientists..some that actually were involved with Gore’s scientific research say this is a lie. The only reason the Earth warms is because of the Sun..duh!!! There is no scientific Proof that we cause the problem. There is theory only!
And it has been proven that most of the carbon dioxide is coming from the oceans…and only 3% is from people. There is a video on youtube that will explain this all for you.

And since there is a slight rise in carbon dioxide..forests and crops are growing faster and stronger! What could be wrong with that?!!

The Earth goes through cooling and warming stages and has done so forever! We had a satellite up above Earth that has stated we are in a cooling stage since 2002!! So there is NO global warming effect right now!

If you believe otherwise…me thinks you have drunk the Kool Aid! The younger generation who have been publically schooled have been taught a bill of goods that are so false! You do not read or write at the level we did at your age. You do not know civics. And obviously you are deceived when it comes to science. But…if you WANT to pay taxes on a lie…Go right ahead. Your future is bleak! Socialism or Communism will keep you from becoming the best that you can be. I feel so sorry for your generation and the ones to come. You will never be able to feel the high from accomplishing your dreams…you will be living a drone existence! Enjoy! Don’t research and find the truth. But, It IS out there..but you have to dig for it.

I still can’t believe the number of you under thirty deadheads who believe in the ethanol scam. God, public education is destroying America.

Look kiddies, no matter what your NEA union Gore-text teachers say – Ethanol costs more to make (and always will). Making it releases four times as much in carbon emissions. It KILLS people because the rising cost of corn means less third world countries can afford to buy it.

As for the ridiculous view that second hand smoke kills people – I ask the question that any scientist would – name me ONE person who has a cause of death listed on a certificate that says “second-hand smoke”. No, not a disease that POSSIBLY could be linked to smoke, but point me to the person whom a doctor says died of second-hand smoke. If you can’t, then shut up about it.

For anyone interested- The earth has been warming and cooling for millions of years. Scientists have proven past ice ages, the last one about ten thousand years ago, what happenned to warm us up then? Too many camp fires…There was a time when the Sahara was a lush jungle…Things change with us or without us…Right now leftist politics have creeped into respectability…They’ve stolen common sense and now everyone is so concerned about climate change, like humans had the power in the past..Please! Polution is a real problem, but for every molecule of pollution we take out of our society, China increases tenfold. You want to do something about polution, protest those Chinese slobs…What’s the matter? Too much effort involved for all you concerned types? Why is it that whenever it comes down to Americans solving Global Warming, it always involves us giving up freedom and lowering our standard of living? Is that the way to weaken America? The back door is for dishonest sneaks which is what the global warming crowd is made up of…That and chicken little types…The sky is falling, oh no and it’s dirty too!

SUVs are very efficient if you have a family of 5 plus any luggage. No smaller car will match the SUV in that case. I have 7 cars. From a large SUV for big outings to small cars for just getting around.

Everyone should have 7 cars, one for each purpose! Thats unless you are poor and have to choose one to do everything. There is nothing wrong with SUVs as they are far more efficient than a giant diesel buss with room for 50 people typically carrying just 5.

As to global warming, I am a scientist. I do not see any clear evidence of it anymore than I did for a new Ice age 40 years ago. As of now its just hype!

For carbon or other industrial pollutants to cause a green house effect they would have to travel at least ten miles up into the atmosphere and form a tightly knit barrier around the entire earth to prevent a mixture of higher altitude air from mixing with lower altitude air. Since carbon and most other industrial pollutants are heavier than our planetary air they can raise only a mile or so into the atmosphere before falling back to earth. One simply has to look into the sky to see this is true. If they, indeed, had risen to the necessary altitude, created and maintained a tight knit barrier, there would be physical evidence: A dark ring around the earth, which as anyone can see does not exist. However, global warming could still well exist, but not from a “green house” that is simply not there and from industrial pollutants that can’t get there because they are too heavy to remain airborne.

This is absurd. The headline states that there is NO scientific basis, then instead of presenting data which proves that there is no global warming, the articles plunges into politics. This is so typically stupid of conservatives and it is embarrassing to other conservatives. Jesus!

IF THE OIL COMPANIES PAID ME $7500 A MONTH TO MAKE UP HORSESHIT LIKE THIS GUY, I’D PUT IT OUT ON ANY SITE DUMB ENOUGH TO RUN WITH IT…

When you listen to the experts on global warming they all have one key word in their statements. “Theory”! However I have noted that those who take the time of looking into the past by looking at things like various layers of earth, which will show what conditions were like thousands of years ago have discovered that for the most part weather and conditions go in cycles. We have had more then one ice age and more then one period of warming. Granted, we do have a pollution problem. Mostly due to high populations in a small area. Look at LA. The greatest source of pollution is called congress.

Whether there is or isn’t global warming going on, all the enviro-nuts seem to think we’re just going to switch right now to these alternative energies that are at the moment either not viable or far too expensive to implement for several years yet,so what do you suggest,we go back to riding donkeys? I might have read incorrectly,but I seem to recall the government claims that the warming is being caused by a build up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,well does this mean that everything on earth that breathes air should either be taxed or stop breathing?I’m sure all of you educated people out there are aware that you breathe in air and breathe out carbon dioxide ,right? I learned that in science class too, Mr.Bellcord and I don’t work for an oil company, jus’a dumb ol’farmboy who listened in science class. Yes,people are polluting, no we’re not causing global warming,that is a natural cycle of the planet,remember when the planet was molten rock? No, we weren’t here.