Global Warming Insanity pt. 3

I have been sticking my nose to the grind and went searching for evidence that these people (especially Al Gore). I found nothing, and since I am not going to state anything as truth without evidence I am going to state right now that all of this post will be unsubstantiated.

I have disproved Anthropogenic Global Warming (at least as much as I can) in my last post. The question that comes up is that if this evidence is easily available then why does anyone believe it? Why does anyone claim it to be true? There are three main schools of thought that I know of.

The first is the one I favor the most. The media are using AGW to get more money. The idea behind this one is that TV stations and newspapers get money from advertising. Advertisers pay money based on viewership/readership, so more viewers/readers is equal to more money. Now although people say they want truthful news, in reality people will simply ignore boring news casts. Be honest. If you had to choose between a show about the latest Britney Spears screw up and a traffic report you will change the channel to Spears. Well what trumps even celebrity shenanigans? The end of the world. If I owned a TV station and I could get away with it then I would tell everyone that an asteroid was about to impact the earth. So regardless of any evidence available, it would be more profitable to be alarmist. Heck, why even bother with fact checking. Anyone who knows enough about science knows that every little detail of every theory on earth if constantly being argued over. If you were ever caught you could simply state that the "information is not yet in".

The second one is simple. People are stupid. Don't attack me yet, this one is a common belief. Basically people either don't know about the information I have posted or they simply don't care at all. Under this idea it is possible to say that no one, except maybe the experts in the field, knows about AGW's flaws. I think this one is right to an extent. I doubt that everyone knows nothing. This would require unprecedented amounts of ignorance. It would probably be more then any other time in history. Even when people believed in a flat earth the Greeks had figured out that was incorrect.

The third theory is more fun then I think it true. This is mainly because it is the only example of a conservative conspiracy theory I know off hand. The theory is that the government or entities within the government, are using AGW to control your life. I would normally laugh at this be unfortunately if you accept the premise that they already know AGW is incorrect and take a look at the climate security act of 2007 then it becomes apparent that there is some water in that cup. How much is to be determined. The reasoning behind why they want control varies a little mostly with what ideology the government wants to push. The most conservative reasoning ( by conservative I mean the reasoning that would be used most often by conservatives) is that the government is trying to push socialism. Others believe it is a fascism they are pushing (I like to point out that socialism is a type a fascism and hence they are restating the previous theory). Regardless of the reasoning I still classify this as a conspiracy theory as it would require a massive amount of coordination in the media (the media is supposedly involved in this) and congress. Occam's razor prevents me from believing this.

These are the why's behind AGW. One I didn't mention is the one about politicians doing this for money. Usually the logic is that they hold stock and while that is not bad as far as evidence goes, it isn't "conclusive". Can we know why? Probably not. Only way I can figure is if you prove in a very public place that they are full of it and then ask/demand to know why. I don't see this happening so it is easily ignored.

The bottom line is that AGW is far away from being accepted yet policy is based on its supposed validity. A bright side is that the Climate Security Act of 2007 has failed in the Senate so we can rest easy for a while but unless a massive conservative victory comes in November the act will pass on the next session.