So how come some people still can't accept global warming as fact?

Question

Even when they do acknowledge that the earth is warming,they're not willing accept the fact it's a by-product of a man-made industrial revoltution.

Answer 1

It is not a theory that we are endangering all our ecosystems on earth.  global warming or not.

Answer 2

actually, the earth is not warming.  if it is a by product of the industrial revolution why did the warming just start in 80s? wouldnt it have started in the 1880s?  people have thought the world was going to end and that we were destroying it for thousands of years now.  you can spend all your time worrying and compromising your life to try to effect something that you could not effect and that is not happening, but not me.

Answer 3

Because we're obviously just looking for something to get paranoid and make NOVA movies about. In the 60s/70s, they were obsessed with "global cooling" and look how that turned out. The world is only going to get a little bit hotter, and you're not going to burn up like an ant under a magnifying glass. Get over it and relax.

Answer 4

because I dont believe that global warming is a problem. its called climate change and it happens. its a natural cycle of the earth. not a byproduct of a manmade industrial revolution.

Answer 5

Some are honestly mistaken.  Others are right wing extremists who take politics to great lengths.  If environmentalists, liberals, or worst, Al Gore say something it must be wrong.  No matter how many scientists are saying it.

Anthony A - The website offer is a phony.  They determine what is "proof", and they'll never accept anything.  It's like a creationist saying the Earth is 6000 years old.  If you offer them any proof (fossils, geology, etc.) they simply say the evidence is something created by God to "test our faith".  There's no answer to that.

There's a lot less controversy about this is the real world than there is on Yahoo answers:

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/a...

And vastly less controversy in the scientific community than you might guess from the few skeptics talked about here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_...

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/fu...

Answer 6

the funny thing is that these are all theories. They have not studied the climate for hundreds of years for them to specifically know that. Global warming is as well a natural cycle. Think about it, wasn't there an ice age? And now it is gone and that obviously was not a man made cause. There are also places that are receiving their worst cold weather in history.

Answer 7

I dont know how anyone can possibly think that this is not a man made problem. We are raping the earth and all its resourses. We burn oil and let the exhaust flow into the atmosphere. Where do you think smog comes from?? Yes there are cycles in the climate change, but anyone who doesnt believe that we are the cause is just being foolish.

Answer 8

Because I am not part the clique that claims Al Gore as their Savior. Recently the best answer you can come up with is that its cooling because its warming. The melted ice is freezing. DUH. Your all arrogant to the point where your beliefs have taken precedence over fact.

Answer 9

More than half of the world scientists believe that the earth is in a cycle which is not caused by man. There has been a recent discovery of what has been and still is an active volcano. This is just one of many things that contributes to the warming trend.

Answer 10

Because there is no demonstrable evidence that the Industrial Revolution is the cause of any climate change.

In fact, the Industrial Revolution is the result of climate change. Europe's climate changed dramatically in the period of the 18th & 19th period ... as it has changed repeatedly since the first earth rocks began to cool billions of years ago.

Besides, haven't you been paying attention? The "man-made global COOLING" panic is the latest and greatest thing. Sheesh! Get with it.

Climate change is real and a natural part of the Earth.

What kind of SUV did the wooly mammoth drive?

Answer 11

Because that's convenient for them than to take a look at the facts.

Answer 12

Because it can't be proven.

There is a website out there offering a a big prize or reward to the first person who can prove [with facts] that there is a global warming trend and that it is cause primarily by humans.

I do apologize for not having the URL available, needless to say, not one person has entered to contest even a year after it began.

Also, who is to say that the current climate at this time is ideal and shouldn't change?  I don't know about you but I would prefer a warmer climate year round.

Answer 13

Check out this site

http://www.globalwarmingtruths.net

Answer 14

1. Most people believe that the current state of things is the way it has always been and the way it will always be because things generally don't change that much in a lifetime. Think of it this way, your pets are born, live and die in a few years.  To them, we must appear to be immortal because, during thier entire existance, we changed very little.  

2. Global warming existed before the man-made industrial revolution. Therefore it is not a by-product. If much of the United States was formed by Glaciers, where did the glaciers go?

Answer 15

i dunno its pretty dumb though... just watch "an inconvenient truth" and that's all you need. its horrifying.

Answer 16

It is not warming..in fact the world is cooling..you will see

Answer 17

I think it is as simple as one of two things. Either they do not understand the science of global warming or they can't accpet the science of global warming.