Why is everyone ignoring Global Warming despite obvious signs?

Question

Melting polar ice caps, stronger hurricanes, hole in ozone layer, rise in avg temperature of planet................

Answer 1

You are incorrect in your question. There are many people who are doing something about Global Warming. Just look at all Al Gore is doing. He is running around the country just like Chicken Little saying the sky if falling the sky if falling. What more do you want?

Answer 2

Well, if the researchers that are screaming "global warming" hadn't spent the 60's and early 70's screaming "ice age by 2020" people might be a bit more inclined to take them seriously. There is also the tiny fact that these people only get research money by making "discoveries". Call me cynical, but if you threaten to cut off my job if I don't come up with something, I'm going to come up with something - right or wrong.

Please note, we've been coming out of an ice age for 10,000 years. We've been keeping temperature and weather records for about 100 years out of several thousand or several million depending on your belief system. Imagine making decisions after studying less than .000001 percent of the time line . Droughts, floods, hot and cold times all come and go in cycles some thousands of years long, some just months.

If however, you're serious about stopping global warming, there's a real simple and easy answer. No private transportation in any city over 20,000 people. Public transportation only and cars have to be kept outside city limits for trips. The only vehicles allowed inside would be delivery vehicles (required to run on propane which gives off water vapor as a by-product) and long-haul goods transport.

Even LA would see the sun again!

It would be cheaper for the average person too. The average American household is spending $750 a month on vehicles and insurance. That doesn't include gas and repairs. And when you consider there are lots of people who don't even own cars . . .

People could pay $250 a month for public transport and still be better off financially, and the environment would not have to absorb millions of pounds of particulates a day from private transportation in cities.

Answer 3

Didn't you get the Memo?

Ignorance is Bliss.

All signs point to climate change. All logic indicates that we play at least some part in it. All rationality advises at least a little bit of caution be excercised until we DO know exactly what the facts are.

But, no, we just keep blindly truging ahead.

Dear Doubters, even scientists called uppon by the administration to put your mind at ease admit that global climate change is occouring. It is scientific consensus.

There is a minority of scientists who do not belive that global climate change is NESSICARILY as a result of human activity, their opinion is that it is INCONCLUSIVE, not untrue or a hoax.

For comparison, there is no conclusive scientific evidence that the Universe even exists. And if it were profitable for someone that you believe that, you can bet they'd have scientists talking about that too.

There were also scientists that said research indicating smoking was bad for you was inconclusive, into the 90's. If you looked hard enough, you could still find scientists that would say that. People believed that crap, too.

Wake up and have a serious conversation.

Answer 4

I think that the propaganda put out by the media over the last 20 years has desensitized us to the reality of global warming. There was a time when the media was seen as a source to expose the truth, but somehow over the years the American public grew accustomed to instead being mislead. After so many years of denying that a problem exists, it became difficult to convince a majority to become involved in a cause. Especially when such a cause would require dramatic changes in lifestyle and attitude.

Answer 5

i think every stupid answerer on this page albeit there are intelligent ones, should live to see the disastrous result of global warming to believe we are moving toward disaster..
yes i believe everyone is ignoring it or doesnt know enough about it to care..and thats because not everyone believes that knoweledge is power..half the world allows the media and those who know better or are just cunning to make decisions for them without even realizing it...and the common public has the IQ of a vegetable!
and also a side note: the ozone layer depletion is an issue apart..what this does is it causes harmful UV rays to get in resulting in possible mutations which mean skin cancer and a series of genetic problems that the world has not fathomed
so ozone depletion has nothing to do with global warming...
what global warming is caused by is not the hole in the ozone layer (it only acts as a mirror to reflect back harmful UV rays)
but the emmission of greenhouse gases such as CO2 and methane and water vapor...CO2 most significantly as its emmission has risen steadily in the past century to unprecedented levels especially after the industrial revolution..these gases seem to capture the heat energy like what would happen in a greenhouse and dont release it back
and thats why we should be cutting trees as they use up the CO2 we release and not to forget give us oxygen but as we speak every second 1.5 acres of trees are being cut down in total in the whole world..yes every second.
so imagine that...at this rate we will be rid of all the trees in 40 years..
and there will be sources that tell you no and give you false hope..but unless you DO something about this problem it wont solve itself...we have damaged the earth too much for it to heal itself...so i mean i understand we are reliant on carbon dioxide belching vehicles and what not but why not try compensating by planting more trees or pushing for the setting aside of preserves?
thats within our control.
what we choose not to do we always have excuses for it...its like if you dont ever clean or take care of the home you live in YES it will fall down to the floor..same with the earth..it is our home so why are we treating it like a big dump?

so remember what i said about the hole in the ozone not being a part of the global warming issue.

Answer 6

Many believe there is nothing we can do about it.
Many others want the world to end, still many others WANT TO MAKE THEIR MONEY no matter the CONSEQUENCES, ofcourse they can't spen it if they are dead.
Then some believe it is a prediction of the BIBLE , so therefore, ther is NOTHING we can do about it...Back to my first answer basically, I just did not add the HOLY BIBLE stuff.
So why do you ask?
We got METEORS comming at us, due to probably hit in 2029, on FRIDAY THE 13th.
It is a half a mile wide or more, pretty much a GLOBAL KILLER...
It will pass by the EARTH in 2022, on FRIDAY the 13th, actually so close to the EARTH that it will PASS BELOW OUR SATELLITE communications systems.
Then it will probably be on a CRASH COURSE for us after that and NAIL US....BAM BAM BAM!!! on FRI, 13, 2029.
Watch the HISTORY CHANNEL, or look it up online...
Plus there are 1,000s of COMETS or ASTEROIDS we have not even found that are probably headed for us, it is just a matter of when...NO WORRIES MATE!!!
You should be focusing on...ETERNITY IN PARADISE!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
DJH
Hello, anyone still reading this A day or more later... I received a message:
I was wrong and so I apologize for my MISCONCEPTIONS...
My Message:
From: socialdeevolution

Subject: Meteor

Message: You are seriously misinformed about the likelyhood of an impact and about the size of the object.

There are several key things that would have to heppen for it to impact, most of which are highly unlikely.

Also it is a quarter mile wide, not a half mile. Damages from impact would be local and regional and is not what is known as a 'Global Killer'.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/asteroid_risk_041224.html#original

Don't believe everything you see on TV.

So I guess Iwas just hoping for a GLOBAL KILLER to be on course with us, that would STRAIGHTEN US ALL RIGHT OUT, No more war, Famine Hunger, Greed, Racism, hate...Etc.
A global killer would solve all of our problems.
Anyway, I really think that all these MEGA DISASTER shows are just to KEEP US IN FEAR.
DJH
I believe when it is my/your time to go it is our time...

Answer 7

Global warming IS happening, a given, but not for the reasons our leftist liberal science sources, politicians and press are reporting. Only 18 percent of the "new" Co2 in the atmosphere is contributed by all contemporary sources including the overall world consumption of fossil fuel, livestock (and human) flatulation and crop fertilization. The majority of scientific studies are now discounting Co2 emitted by motor vehicles (burning of fossil fuels) as any MAJOR cause. Geological history indicates natural solar cycles are the culprit, something politicians have no power over so they ignore. The real short-term danger is in fact a buildup of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, but not Co2. The real culprit is Methane, a far more potent greenhouse gas, being released into the atmosphere by the decay of Methane Hydrate occurring naturally frozen on the ocean floors, due to the gradual (natural) warming of ocean water by the (natural) solar cycle. Another item our politicians have no control over and the liberal media will never mention. Follow the money trail... They promote revenue and power by promoting fear. "We just have to do SOMETHING...You know"? So they continue to promote cars as the culprit. If we reduce world fossil fuel consumption by 10% it would have absolutely no effect on climate change, but the world would be plunged into total economic chaos...

Answer 8

Yes they are ignoring it and that is a shame. AL Gore didn't call his film "An Inconvenient Truth" for nothing.
BTW- the hole in the Ozone Layer is a completely separate problem. Thankfully science was able to get a handle on that problem in time.

Answer 9

we're not were still standing here waiting for truth from a ten thousand different questions that are tabled and forgotten

i advised we stop moving any ice breakers and shipping in the north pole south pole area till the results can restudied of leaving the frozen areas alone and stop the damages we have done every years, mother nature doesn't approve of the nuclear waste and bombing elements of wars, Einstein was happy when we didn't start the chain reaction that would detonate the earth, but they did spell it out that we can't stop what we >greed

Answer 10

I have many friends and associates who will not acknowledge that this is going on. I am guessing that it is overwhelming them and they feel helpless. They usually laugh or make jokes. Maybe when they are alone they worry that it is real. I think we need to set some goals for ourselves and our governments. Small attainable goals. Public transportation. Tax breaks for purchases of environmentally friendly items like solar panels, windmills.......I think we need more educational programming in the form of movies and TV shows. Many people do not want to make the effort to read or do their own research; but they will watch TV or a movie. We need celebrities and politicians to step up and promote this information. It will draw media and money. I also think the wealthy need to invest in the future by helping us deal with this problem. Factories that put out large amounts of pollution must have the "cleaners" that decrease the levels of pollution put out. Communities that have many people working at those factories should help raise money for their employers to buy those "cleaners". It goes on and on. This Yahoo Q/A helps those of us discouraged by this problem. I feel better every time I read a question written by someone who cares.