A new season?

[Torsten]

Somehow we all seem to be affected by global warming -- either directly or through the media. How important is this issue in your country? I mean, one of the effects global warming seems to have is the constant rise of the average temperature. Alan describes this in A New Season and I wonder what people in countries like Saudi Arabia think about global warming. I mean, the average temperature seems to be rising here in Europe and a country like the UK probably benefits from this development. But what about countries that frequently suffer from heat waves?
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[Jamie (K)]

The biggest effect of global warming in my country is that the media release a lot of gas into the atmosphere talking about it, and they allow almost no exposure to the scientists who disagree with the premise, or agree that it's happening but don't think it's bad.

If it gets hotter, they blame it on global warming. If it gets colder, they blame it on global warming, because they claim it's supposed to get colder before it gets warmer. They blamed Hurricane Katrina on global warming (and by extension on President Bush, because everybody knows he's a major cause of global warming), even though meteorologists said that the storm was part of a regular 40-year cycle of severe hurricane activity that scientists have known about for years.

And they still have to explain why the 1930s were hotter than this decade.

The whole thing is a scam. In the late 1960s they told us that by 1980 there would be no more petroleum left anywhere in the world. In the 1970s they told us that ruination was imminent because the earth was cooling, the polar ice caps were going to expand, cover New York, and we wouldn't be able to grow enough food. Then this global warming thing came.

The funny thing is that no matter what they say the earth is doing, they always claim the same things cause it. Capitalism, prosperity and technology were depleting the petroleum in the 1960s, cooling the earth in the 1970s, and are supposedly warming it now. And the answer they always come up with is more government control over the decisions of individual people. I've seen it blamed on people eating bananas, on cow flatulence, all kinds of things that just happen to be related to things that so many greenies personally object to. I have never seen any of these things blamed on the volume of plastic used by the music industry or anything else that greenies personally like.

The whole global warming hoax is just another environmental scare fad started by people who want to eliminate capitalism. In a few years it will be disproven, just like Marxism, and they'll be scaring people with something else. That something else will be caused by the same things they say cause global warming.

Two questions:
1. Why would you believe a guy who flies a private jet around the world to tell people to limit their use of fossil fuels and then goes home to a mansion where just the pool house uses more carbon-based fuel in a month than an average American house does in a year?
2. If they can't predict the weather accurately for next month, why do you think they can predict what it will be like 25 years from now?

[Daemon99]

[Jamie (K)]

[Quangquang]

Torsten, global warming is one of prime importance issues at present and all countries in the word are being effected by this. But in fact are existing a contradiction that poor countries which have exhaust gas emission less are being effecting more than rich countries which have exhaust gas emission much.If the average temperature rise about 3-4 degrees celsius, in Vietnam has about 22 milion people are lost habitat, and lost farm land in poor countries, famine, flood, an epidemic disease...