Why do people deny global warming?

Question

It seems a lot of people deny the possible existence of global warming passing it up as a conspiracy, often providing no rational for their thoughts.

If these people are not concerned with this event than why do they go out of their way to bash those who believe it and the scientific data that supports it? It is not like it affects them personally.

Does the average mindset just not want to worry about the future and the issues we're sending onto the younger generation?

Answer 1

What I deny is Anthropogenic Global Warming and the idea of runaway global warming. I don't deny that we humans have polluted our environment. Look at China for an example of that. Their air pollution consists of Ozone, Carbon Monoxide, Sulfur Dioxide and a few other things humans weren't meant to breath. The interesting thing I noticed was that CO2 wasn't even mentioned in the news report I saw about China's air quality problem.

I also noticed how much people on here try to twist things for their own agenda. Like taking the 1980 satellite infrared images and putting them along side the 2008 images.

http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/test...

Instead of looking at the fact the Arctic is rebounding from last years major melt.

http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/test...

My guess is the problem with people wanting to be right so badly that they'll keep a theory alive even when it's starting to be proven wrong.

What we need to do is start focusing on things we can influence such as oil and gas prices, looking for alternative energy sources (not ethonol.) cleaning up the real pollution in our back yards and stop being blind sided by something we don't have any control over such as the overall climate of the planet we live on.

Answer 2

We learned a lot from the oil embargo in the early 70's didn't we, we ignored looking for other energy sources, we ignored drilling more wells here and off shore, we imported about 30% of our oil then.....now we import 70+% of our oil...

And we still are not learning, we continually hear "but it will take 7-10 years for the oil to come in from new wells", it's been 30+ years since we started hearing that.....what have we done except import more and more...

We as a population are too arrogant to stop, look and realize our own stupidity....

The proof is in, we know what CO2 does,  the question is how long before the "runaway" effect begins, we "will" wait until it is answered and then it may be too late to care....

Look at Venus twice as far from the sun as Mercury yet it is hotter than Mercury, it's atmosphere is saturated with CO2...

Answer 3

they are ignorant and don't know the facts.

Answer 4

Because it's a myth generated by environmental feelgood-ism fostered by aging hippies who crept in to our schools of higher learning. Recorded weather patterns and temperatures haven't been accumulated long enough for this theory (untested hypothesis) to be credible. It's as ludicrous as me blaming Annabel Gurwitch for contributing to rising temperatures because I think she's HOT.

Answer 5

with or without man's involvement it would have occurred anyway, or at least environmental change would still have occurred...  the problem is we can't say for certain what damage has occurred and what the effects really are.... the ozone is said to repair itself... species have always died out and been replinished by others, its just hard to say what things would be like when we don't have a viable historical working model to go on that actually corresponds to what is actually occurring

Answer 6

I am certain that the reason is that the majority are stupid people who blindly believe anything they're told without thinking for themselves.

As far as the few who've thought about it and still don't believe, maybe they're right!

Answer 7

I deny it mainly for reasons like China just having experienced it's coldest winter in 100 years and this being the coolest summer (where I am) I can ever remember.

Just silly little things like that.

Believe me, I'm into the environment as much as anyone (even named my son after a kind of tree), but I just haven't seen any real enduring proof.

*Just between you and me, doesn't this controversy seem eerily like the evolution debate? Hmm. Politics and big money are heavily involved, so the truth is not easily divined through the corrupted liberal media. Yes, it's up to each of us to find the truth on our own. As usual.

Answer 8

global warming is a crock....what a joke...if you believe in global warming you probly believe in the tooth fairy as well...suckers

Answer 9

I'd say that 90% of people who deny this are just going along with another 5%, who are officials from the Republican party who don't want to let the Democrats attract voters with a strong environmentalist agenda. Further, these 5% are basing their beliefs on the remaining 5% - scientists who are ultra skeptic and/or have been paid off.

Answer 10

Because they wan't wan't to die.

I don't deny it, but George Bush does.

Answer 11

People deny global warming because they don't want the thought in there head that in a couple of decades we will all die.. I know that sounds really harsh but it it somewhat true, people think that nobody is doing anything so they themselves don't do anything in turn which results in denying the fact of global warming.



I hope this answers your question,

                                                David R.