Why have so many Americans bought into the global warming nonsense?

Question

Why have so many Americans bought into the global warming nonsense?

Answer 1

Because it's been well planned, abundantly funded and pushed like crazy through much of the media and in schools.  Lots of hype.

By the time most of us tuned in to what it was all about, they said the  debate was over and they wouldn't provide any proof or answers.  

Answer 2

Serious deficiencies in education since education was nationalized first under the National Education Board which became the National Education Association and then the Department of Education. Upton Sinclair first documented these problems back in the 20s with his investigative book the Goosestep that documented what was happening. This was followed with more detail in his book the Goslings a few years later. Link to H.L. Mencken review and opinion of these books!

http://www.ralphmag.org/menckenI.html

And for those who would appreciate a wider view the skeptics, skeptic I present the following for the study of the under educated.

http://www.io.com/~gibbonsb/mencken.html

And a modern detailed investigation by a concerned teacher as to why he was being prevented from properly educating his students that finally names, names and points out the true facts as to public education in the United States today and why no child is allowed to get ahead if it can be prevented.

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/undergrou...

A quote I can not find right now points out that if our current education system had been forced on us by another nation it would be cause for war!

Answer 3

first of all, global warming is an issue but not a crisis. its worth buying into but its not worth obsessing over. your question is a paradox.  no americans shouldn't buy into global warming, but yes they should believe it. hey you reading this, live in the moment, don't worry about  dying in 50 years. it ain't gonna happen. but if you care about your  great grandchildren, do you part and recycle.

Answer 4

Companies can profit off it.

"Greenies, aka ENVIRO-n***s"

Answer 5

Ask most of them to tell you what elements CO2 is composed of and you probably will eliminate half of them.  They are more concerned who the Denver Broncos drafted or who Angelina adopted than science.   As a science geek, I get pretty frustrated at the lack of interest in science from my fellow American.  That said, most have a very general knowledge of global warming, know that the media has bought into it, know that they are supposed to believe in it or face possible ridicule (whether subtle or overt) from the pollster, and are probably a lot more skeptical than most polls would suggest.  Leftists always pretend that most of the America thinks like they do, yet we have elected Republicans 20 of the last 28 years and much of Europe and Australia have moved right in recent elections and Clinton won pretending to be a "new" Democrat.

Answer 6

The media has hyped it up and now that a "trusted source" such as Al Gore is promoting it, people believe it.

Also, as strange as it, people are addicted to drama and disaster. That is why reality tv, saw II and CNN are so popular.  

Answer 7

Because if you rely on Main Stream media outlets (NBC, CBS, NYTimes, etc), you only see the side that says we are the problem. I know many people who believe in AGW because they watch tv and do not look into it themselves. After about 30 minutes, I can either change their mind, or at least create a lot of doubt.

Answer 8

I'm glad you didn't say it was a myth or false, just nonsense.   Because they think humans might be causing it and care about how the earth is changing.

Answer 9

Can you tell me why you dont believe it? they certainly provide more than enough evidence of it. Not to mention i can look around and realize that things are changing, the weather today is far different than what it used to be.  

Answer 10

Because most of us Americans are stupid enough to believe anything that anyone who seems to know what they are doing says. If a person who is a "scientist" says it is automatically true and anyone who disagrees is stupid and has not done their research.

Answer 11

These are the same folks that watch the Jerry Springer Show, s*x in the City, and America "IDLE" (no I spelled it correctly!)---

what do you expect.

Answer 12

Al Gore needs attention!

Answer 13

Al Gore...

But I'd say pollution defiantly isn't a good thing, whether it be global warming or not.

Answer 14

Global warming is a phenomenon that is happening and showing glimpses of it's threatening aspects to the world - now. I don't know if Americans have bought into the theory of global warming.

But your assumption in the question that Global warming is 'nonsense' is interesting and highly debatable.

So I suggest you ask a question whether 'global warming is relevant and real'

that will be fun

Answer 15

They're misinformed and don't know all sides of the story.

Sure, there is such a thing as global warming, but it's just part of the Earth's cycle. I suppose people are just ignorant.

Answer 16

They haven't.  That is why politicians spend so much money on polling, to find out what people truly people while not under duress.

Per the Asch conformity experiments, folks naturally conform around their peers, even when they know it is wrong.

But notice how global warming has metamorphosed into "climate change" ... double spending on climate research or bad things will happen with more severe weather.

What is surprising is how many Europeans believe in global warming, and that cutting emissions in Denmark is going to offset China, India, third world, etc.

In short, the legacy media in America is a giant "Asch Conformity Experiment" and when you move outside that sewing circle, a lot of people who doubt climate change is an issue anyone should spend taxpayers money on emerge.

Answer 17

Socialized education system has left most Americans under the age of 30 unable to think for themselves.

Answer 18

Many documentries that target the americans sense of guilt and many famous documentries that use politicians that claim they are trustworthy in this discusion.  

Answer 19

it is very real.but we have bigger problems to worry about nowadays,we have war that consumes our minds of never ending fighting because of countries who are jealous of our riches of america.

Answer 20

The Cooling World

Newsweek, April 28, 1975

  

www.denisdutton.com

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Here is the text of Newsweek’s 1975 story on the trend toward global cooling. It may look foolish today, but in fact world temperatures had been falling since about 1940. It was around 1979 that they reversed direction and resumed the general rise that had begun in the 1880s, bringing us today back to around 1940 levels. A PDF of the original is available here. A fine short history of warming and cooling scares has recently been produced. It is available here.

We invite interested readers to vist our new website: Climate Debate Daily. — D.D.



There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production – with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas – parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia – where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.

The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually. During the same time, the average temperature around the equator has risen by a fraction of a degree – a fraction that in some areas can mean drought and desolation. Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars’ worth of damage in 13 U.S. states.

To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the world’s weather. The central fact is that after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earth’s climate seems to be cooling down. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic. “A major climatic change would force economic and social adjustments on a worldwide scale,” warns a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences, “because the global patterns of food production and population that have evolved are implicitly dependent on the climate of the present century.”

A survey completed last year by Dr. Murray Mitchell of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveals a drop of half a degree in average ground temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere between 1945 and 1968. According to George Kukla of Columbia University, satellite photos indicated a sudden, large increase in Northern Hemisphere snow cover in the winter of 1971-72. And a study released last month by two NOAA scientists notes that the amount of sunshine reaching the ground in the continental U.S. diminished by 1.3% between 1964 and 1972.

To the layman, the relatively small changes in temperature and sunshine can be highly misleading. Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin points out that the Earth’s average temperature during the great Ice Ages was only about seven degrees lower than during its warmest eras – and that the present decline has taken the planet about a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age average. Others regard the cooling as a reversion to the “little ice age” conditions that brought bitter winters to much of Europe and northern America between 1600 and 1900 – years when the Thames used to freeze so solidly that Londoners roasted oxen on the ice and when iceboats sailed the Hudson River almost as far south as New York City.

Just what causes the onset of major and minor ice ages remains a mystery. “Our knowledge of the mechanisms of climatic change is at least as fragmentary as our data,” concedes the National Academy of Sciences report. “Not only are the basic scientific questions largely unanswered, but in many cases we do not yet know enough to pose the key questions.”

Meteorologists think that they can forecast the short-term results of the return to the norm of the last century. They begin by noting the slight drop in overall temperature that produces large numbers of pressure centers in the upper atmosphere. These break up the smooth flow of westerly winds over temperate areas. The stagnant air produced in this way causes an

Answer 21

I wish I knew!

Answer 22

Because Americans think CNN is always telling the truth rather than just another network trying to get more money by getting more viewers!

Answer 23

GLOBAL WARMING IS A MYTH AL GORE IS A BUTTHEAD AND WERE ALL GOING TO BE ALIVE IN THE NEXT 100 YEARS!

if you believe global warming is true, then GO WATCH SOME GOOD OLD FOX NEWS

Answer 24

Because this "nonsense" is scientific fact, according to most all scientists in the world.

In the US EVERY major scientific organization has issued an official statement that this is real, and mostly caused by us.

Do you expect people to take your unsupported word over that?