what is our stance on global warming?

[Silver]

Global warming is very real, and only idiots dismiss it.

After all, why believe in something based on evidence when they can believe in a fantasy called god?

[Ravenshire]

Our positions on global warming are many and varied.

it seems like even lot of atheists dont even agree!!!

Why would you expect us to? Atheism is a lack of belief in god(s). Nothing more, nothing less. Sure, many atheists (myself included) look to science to give us actual answers to our questions instead of the bullshit answers provided by religion, but it is by no means required or universal.

Personally, I have seen the evidence of global warming and find the explanations satisfactory to support the claim. I see a need to drastically curb and eliminate, if possible, the release of ancient carbon into the atmosphere. It's the single source of my dissatisfaction with my current employment. The company is awesome, the bosses are awesome, the co-workers are awesom, hell, even the office location is awesome. But, I'm stuck helping oil and gas companies frack the planet. This is why I'm returning to school, starting over completely, to move into a new industry.

Not all will agree with me. Hopefully enough will realize what's happening before it's truly too late to leave a living legacy behind us. It would be truly sad if human-kind's greatest legacy is it's own extinction but that's where we're headed if it doesn't stop.

[Losty]

It is a pack of lies.
Designed to have the exact effect in you that you are now experiencing.
The primary desired effect-
Public acceptance of de-industrializing the United States (and secondarily Europe) to facilitate merging into the North American Union (one of 10 global divisions of the world as outlined by the Globalist agenda).

By the way, wasn't there something about plants taking IN carbon dioxide?

I have 2 pages of mass animal/ fish and bird die offs in the last couple of years,
but no plant die offs apart from drought.

[Ravenshire]

By the way, wasn't there something about plants taking IN carbon dioxide?

Until you combine more carbon dioxide than the plants can handle with deforestation. Then you have to take into account the fact that all those plants release most of the CO2 they've captured when they die and decompose.

Seriously prof, you need to get your tinfoil hat resized. That one seems to be pinching off the blood supply.

[Jextin]

Im just confused because if you watch the video i linked in OP the CNN people were talking down to bill nye and im like WTF I thought he was the ultimate science guy and now they acting like he is nuts and even among fellow atheists its so confusing!!!

personally idk, i feel like weathers overall the same each year... but i guess u have to live in certain places to see it? i have no idea and whenver i read an article i find another article saying its wrong.

this is why i hate facebook and am going to quit - a week ago i didnt give 2 crackers about global warming but i decided to check facebook after weeks of not using it, then got sucked into an argument on a shared article - and now i havnt slept for last 48 hours.

[psychoslice]

The weather around the earth has always changed, its been do it for billions of years, and here we are panicking over a few hundred years of recorded weather. The farmers expect the weather to be favourable to them each year, as if we can tell the weather what we want, but saying this I also think we should keep the planet clean.

[Ravenshire]

The weather is not a good indicator of anything beyond how nice (or not) it's going to be that day. Global warming is a long term trend, not a predictor of daily weather patterns.


The image above is an analogy used by Neil DeGrasse Tyson the series "Cosmos." The path the dog takes is the standard weather deviation. The path the guy walking the dog takes is the long term trend. Notice, the standard weather deviations have little or no affect on the long term trend. This is why global warming is so hard to see for the average person.

The arctic permafrost is seeing it perfectly well though. Tons of frozen vegetable matter (previously permanently frozen) is now thawing every summer and decomposing, releasing tons of CO2 and, even worse, methane, into the atmosphere.

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The weather around the earth has always changed, its been do it for billions of years, and here we are panicking over a few hundred years of recorded weather. The farmers expect the weather to be favourable to them each year, as if we can tell the weather what we want, but saying this I also think we should keep the planet clean.

Follow the relationship between CO2, methane and other greenhouse gasses and average temperatures and you'll see a frightening correlation. Then consider the tons of those gasses we pump into the atmosphere outside of natural processes and the picture becomes crystal clear.

We're destroying the habitat we rely on for our survival.

[psychoslice]

I agree we are doing some harm, but we still have to except what climate we are given get from the earth, if we weren't here, I still believe that the climate will still change

[CapnAwesome]

It is a pack of lies.
Designed to have the exact effect in you that you are now experiencing.
The primary desired effect-
Public acceptance of de-industrializing the United States (and secondarily Europe) to facilitate merging into the North American Union (one of 10 global divisions of the world as outlined by the Globalist agenda).

By the way, wasn't there something about plants taking IN carbon dioxide?

I have 2 pages of mass animal/ fish and bird die offs in the last couple of years,
but no plant die offs apart from drought.

Who exactly is in change of this massive conspiracy. You say 'the globalists' but can you be more specific?

[vodkafan]

I like to lie down on my bed when it's too warm