Why are there so many Global warming skeptics here in yahoo answers?

Question

The debate has already eneded between countries that global warming is caused mostly by man-made activites but still most of the yahoo answer users are skeptic about this. duh>?!

Answer 1

I think "Love of Truth" has hit the nail on the head the highest contributor in this group, has a tally of best answers that has gone up hundreds in just the last few weeks, the only way to get these sort of results is multiple id.s his total is over 1400 best answers in 11 months of membership, thats 4.5 best answers each and every day?

Answer 2

SO YOU SAY G.W. IS MAN MADE HUH? SHOW ME WHAT MAN OR MEN CAN DO THIS== ALLOW EXTRA SUN BEAMS TO COME TO EARTH THROUGH THE FORCEFIELD(OZONE) BUT NOT ALLOW OUTER SPACE IN,  YET NOT ALLOW OUR ATMOSPHERE TO PENETRATE THE OZONE, YET AT THE SAME TIME ALLOW SOLID OBJECTS TO COME AND GO AT WILL. THIS TYPE TECHNOLOGY HAS'NT BEEN INVENTED BY MAN, ESPECIALLY SINCE THE SUNS RAYS ARE DOING THIS 24 HOURS A DAY, IT COULD ONLY MEAN THAT THE BEAMS THAT ARE ALLOWING THIS TO HAPPEN IS STATIONED ALL AROUND EARTH FROM UNDER THE OCEANS.

Answer 3

Because its rife with dumb remedies like feeding your dog organic food and diverting food production to fuel production.

Answer 4

The most evasive maneuvers about global warming are done by the main steam media. What I mean is that its easy for the media to distort peoples views on almost everything. Its regulated, so you never see what people really think when watching TV or reading the newspaper.

The difference here, as opposed to what you have told are strikingly different, because your seeing evidence of how people think that stretches across the gambit of the media. Your getting answers from people who are scientists, from people who have read up on global warming, listen to AM media, and have had a chance to converse with others to make up their own minds, or change their minds on global warming.

Here you get raw and unfiltered view points that would never make it on either TV or be written in most magazines and newspapers.

Answer 5

As long as there are fanatics, there will be skeptics.  The thing to remember is that there is only one kind of fanatic and there are two kind of skeptics.  The two kind of skeptics are:  (1)  Those who fanatics accuse, for not believing as they do; and (2) Those who prefer to make their own investigations and draw their own conclusions based on fact obtained from different sources.  Now; are you a fanatic of global warning or a true skeptic still looking for answers?  I will like that my great-great-great grandchildren enjoy clean air and water with plentiful fauna and flora.  I am doing my part by recycling, reducing and reusing.  I also try to protect the environment any way I can.  The globe is going to warm and cool as God's sees fit!

Answer 6

With a Master's Degree, the major concept I learned was that there is a LOT of research on any given subject. One can prove most anything by selectively choosing your sources.

Of the 400+ on GW, Al chose about 60 of them - and he will not debate anybody on the issue. That's because there are over 300 that would shread him in the first outing.

Note also that temperature have been declining for the past 7 years - but that doesn't get press. And the ice cap - possibly from undersea volcanoes.

Man Made - I laugh - when Mount St Helens blew - scientists noted that more atmospheric destruction occurred in a week than the previous 100 years of man-made pollution.

but man made - you may have a point

1800 - 900 million people

1900 - 1.6 billion

2000 - 6 billion

2005 - 6.5 BILLION PEOPLE

nah - I am too skeptical

Answer 7

You just believe what you hear, you don't look into it. It warmed up 2 degrees in 1000 years,  wow .

Answer 8

At my school, many of my fellow students are skeptics also, despite all the indoctrination from professors. There are also a few professors that openly admit it as well (one physics and another geography).

Its not just a YA! phenomena.

Answer 9

sadly, this reflects how many americans are skeptics

Answer 10

PEOPLE NEED TO EDUCATE THEMSELVES!! its happening and has been proven over a decade ago. dont be skeptic about it because there is no time. I guess its because its natural for humans to be in denial when in guilt. People dont want to admit they messed our planet up. too bad we did!

Answer 11

Well first I think it's important to establish that they're not really skeptics.  A skeptical person keeps his mind open, and when something is proven (like that the Sun is not responsible for the current global warming), he accepts it.  These people are not skeptical - they're in denial, and thus are deniers.

Deniers actually make up a pretty small fraction of the population.  They just make up a large percentage of people in the YA Environment section because they're conspiracy theorists, and thus feel very strongly about their position.  A person who accepts man-made global warming has no reason to come here.  They're in the majority.  But when you're in the minority and think there's a massive conspiracy going on, you make a lot of noise about it.

YA is a good place for these people to congregate because you can post your opinion here and you don't have to know what you're talking about.  You can even pretend to be a doctor, as several deniers do.  And because there are so many of them here, YA gives the deniers a little corner of the world where they can feel like there are a lot of people who think like them, and so maybe they're right.

It's a little unfortunate that anyone can say anything they want on YA, even if it's a total lie.  This flaw is what allows deniers to congregate here and misinform people, trying to fool them into joining the global warming denial movement.

Answer 12

OK, I'm not supposed to say anything about this, but there is this huge conspiracy going on to get the deniers to speak up on line so their home addresses can be tracked down...and someone in Hollywood with an apocalyptic vision is writing a global warming screenplay right now with a plot that revolves around just that concept.

What happens is global warming results in the weather upheavals, droughts in some areas, flooding in others...all the things that are predicted in varying degrees of severity.  The surviving governments, in order to preserve what remains of the human race, publishes a list of the denier's names and home addresses, and mobs of angry people descend like hordes of locusts on the skeptics, banishing them to the least habitable parts of the globe.

Then Charlton Heston appears before them wearing a long gray beard and dressed in flowing robes, bearing two stone tablets that are inscribed by a fiery finger as the banished tribes watch...

...I can't really reveal any more, because this is a real blockbuster, and it is expected that viewers will bolt from theaters and cinemaplexes all over the globe, skeptics to cower in their basements while believers track them down, burn their SUVs and stuff, and reality TV crews tape.

Aside from the boffo boxoffice and cross merchandising franchise, the advertising revenues from the TV shows-which is the real goal-will be enough to encase the entire earth in a plastic bubble and air condition it.

Hope I haven't said too much.

Answer 13

You may want to do some actual research on the subject and turn off the nightly news. To date, there is ZERO scientific evidence supporting AGW as a theory. the reason there are so many skeptics here is that this user community tends to be much more aware of the issue than the general population. i am sure if you stick around here long enough, you to will doubt the AGW hoax.

Answer 14

There has been sicentific evidence that the sun is getting hotter and some believe this may be the main contributory factory to global temperature rise rather than greenhouse gases.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main....

Currently this has been refuted check out the article... but the study is in its infancy so don't be so sure there is not some justification to it. The greenhouse gas theory is a fairly sound theory and in all honesty makes more sense.. The sun will have been getting hotter for some time.. but its hard to believe that this global warming has happened so suddenly (in comparison to the age of the sun) without it being related to a corresponding change in circumstance..

That change is clearly matches our industrialisation era... I am sorry to say that unless we enter into an era of global environmentalism we could be headed for serious consequnces. It is inevitable that the population of the world will need to be culled either by war... natural disaster / unihabitable conditions.

The planet will recover in time and in probability our species will survive but just with far fewer numbers. I say use all the fossil fuels up.. Make sure there is non left when the post-apocalyptic nations rebuild they will have be forced to use alternate methods.. Last thing they need is access to fossil fuels.

Answer 15

A lot of people don't realize that global warming doesn't necessarily mean higher temps.It's more about extremes, drought, temperature fluctations. Hot dry summers, and extremely cold dry winters. Without water (not rain and storm induced by cloudseeding and possibly haarp).

As the poles are mellting, the salinity level needed to keep the thermohaling circuitry in motion. drops, and the oceans go to sleep, and percipitation that needs to go inlands are not formed, resulting in inland drought. It'll all turn into desert. Every day land is turning into desert.

Answer 16

1. Trolls with multiple accounts

2. More young people of which many have a mob like mentality, more so on YA than in real world.

3. Impressionable minds

4. It's their Job. I believe some users are actually paid by the fossil fuel interests. These people I believe have multiple accounts to make their numbers seem larger than they are. Also they influence the many people here than normal that are impressionable by age, education, etc.

They also make sure they vote for themselves every time with their multiple accounts giving them the top scorer positions. Never, and I mean never let your answer come up for a vote. Most people anyway vote for themselves.

5. Don't want to admit guilt nor do anything about it if they did.

6. Lazy optimism.

7. Plain old ignorance.

8. Religion (some how equate this to the moon landing being faked, earth being round, etc).

9. Politics (think they are not conservative if they actually believe GW to be real).

10. Financial interests in industries that are the opposite of green.

Answer 17

Because it's an un-moderated forum.  

On moderated forums you have to show some decorum, some shred of logical argument.

Some denialists do, most don't.

Answer 18

It amazes me how many people like you actually believe in "global warming."

Most scientists no longer believe that humans cause climate changes that's why they now say they are postponing global warming for another 10 years.

It's been getting cooler since 1998 and so they predict it may start to get warmer in another 10 years.

The debate was never over in the science arena, but the politicians and media made up their minds very early even though it was all just an unproven theory.

If you genuinely want to learn about it there are hundreds of books on the subject, but it sounds like you've made up your mind without educating yourself.  That's unfortunate.

Answer 19

People are concerned! I really don't care because it's all fake. That's not real.

Do you want to help a poor guy out and get 10 points QUICK?? Then you must go here! http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...

Answer 20

This is where a lot of thinkers hang out, leave the numbskull crowd following to the sheep.

Answer 21

Because all the facts haven't been presented to me that show me that man-made activites are the cause of global warming.  Show me the proof that the earth isn't in a normal warming trend.  If the earth is millions of years old, how do you know that this isn't a 1000 year cycle or 10,000 year cycle.

I don't feel guilty.   I do what I can to reduce, reuse, recycle but that is to do my part to not pollute the plant.

Answer 22

Because there are lots of logically minded people out there that don't believe every single thing the media tells them.

Rock on, global warming skeptics!!!

Answer 23

It makes them feel better to actively deny that which scares them.  It makes them feel that they have some power over a threat which they can't control.

"Denial, in the psychological/psychiatric vernacular, is a defensive strategy to minimize anxiety."

"Sadly, many addicts continue to act out on their addictions while their world collapses around them blaming everything but the addiction for their problems (USDHHS, 1994)"

http://www.wowessays.com/dbase/ae5/csk11...

Answer 24

because smart people know global warming is a scam.

Answer 25

I've got one word why there are so many 'skeptics'. Because this global warming is nothing but BULLSHEET! Choke on that you tree-huggin' RDDB.

Check out the new issue of Nature Magazine. They have one in a litany of articles debunking ALGORES myth of global warming.

Answer 26

global warning is just an excuse to give al gore more money he has made 50 million dollars off of movie sales and invitations to speak

Answer 27

Oh heaven forbid someone should be skeptical about environmentalists claims that the world will end.  They did the same thing during the '70's .  Did it happen? What makes them right this time?  

The debate is not over.  I always find it curious that the true believers never want debate to go on.  Why is that?  GW has become a religion for far too many people.  Repent or die, right?  Believe or be labeled a denier (coincidentially by the same buch of people who don't like to be labeled but have no problem labeling others.  Hypocritical, if you ask me.)

Answer 28

The country needs to begin having an "honest" conversation about the "costs and consequences" of ethanol regulations.

    While most people are focusing on rising gas prices, world food prices are also soaring -- and those soaring prices are having a "devastating" effect on people.

    Many people are now going hungry; and while there are a lot of reasons for the rising cost of food, ethanol mandates are a part of that and it is something that the Greenies need to think seriously about changing.

    Reports suggests that bio-fuel production contributes to about one-third of the rising cost of food. As farmers switch crops in order to grow more corn for bio-fuel, that has a negative impact on the price of wheat and other grains. And the excess corn production does not enter the food market.