Why docertain people still ignore the GLOBAL WARMING issue? ?

Answer 1

Like any problem anyone has....It's much easier to ignore a problem than to deal with it. Also to change global warming means asking people to change the way they live. Most people are very close minded and stop listening after they realize the problem is their lifestyle.

Answer 2

It isn't 100% proven to be an issue. Some scientists believe that the Earth goes through natural cycles of warming and cooling. Others believe natural forces at work (volcanic eruptions, natural fires, plankton population, solar radiation, etc) impact global warming far more than the impact from humans (pollution, deforestation, etc). Some believe a combination of the two.

We really only have about 100 years of measured climate data to base our conclusions on- which considering the age of the Earth, isn't much. Fossil records show hints of significant temperature swings over several hundreds of years... and since there were no humans driving cars, planes or cutting down large portions of the rain forest, it's difficult to blame us.

I don't doubt that humans contribute to environmental changes. But what percentage we impact the global temperature is the key. Is it 0.01% compared to natural forces, or is it 90%? Proving that fact is difficult and that is why many people "ignore" the issue.

Answer 3

These scientists are trying to tell us that global warming is caused by things we do and use. How can we be sure it's not caused by all the things they keep sending up in space? I am just not completely sure there's really anything called global warming. We had many days last year that were warmer than normal and many days that were cooler than normal. It's that way every year. I think the scientist people just can't be happy until they have everyone worried about something!

Answer 4

Why to certain people still freak out about it? There's a good chance that we've done nothing to cause it and therefore can do nothing to fix it. If humans are the cause we still can't do much without a massive effort. Read massive as debilitating, as in 30% unemployment and kids starving in the streets. The kind of effort that few people would be willing to take, even the people who freak out over it.

My solution, because I do think that humans are responsible, is
1. $2 dollar gas tax with the money going to jump start a hydrogen economy.
2. Cancel coal subsidies and start a coal tax with the money going to retrain the now jobless coal minors.
3. Pinch myself, because we are both dreaming and it would be to little to late anyway.

Move away from the coast and invest in Greenland real estate. Warmer weather is here to stay. By the way if you look at average temps over the long term, like a couple million years we are way low.

Answer 5

I saw a guy on Fox news say that "Global warming is the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people"

He went on to say that "It will be to to expensive to fix all of the industries to conform to what will be neccessary to stop it.

Later he said and asked "I for one think that a warmer planet will be nicer. Is there any proof that a warmer planet will be more hostile?"

So its not going to happen but it's too hard to keep it from happening but it will be better when it does.

I believe that duplicity is not the right word but I don't have a better one.

Most informed people understand global warming as a real thing and I believe that the one's that deny it simply have different priorities. It's easy to convince yourself that the truth is a lie if the truth is going to cost you(or your employer) money.

Answer 6

For some people it's just easier to deny it than to face it.

Others have a political objection to environmentalism in general, and they just throw global warming in the same box.

Finally for some: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his income depends on him not understanding it."

Answer 7

Because the cost to try to fix it is so large. A recent study by the UN put the 50-year cost of addressing it as $557,000,000,000,000. That is about forty times the entire gross national product of the US.

Answer 8

Because they are not directly impacted. Why should I give up something I really like or maybe even depend on just because someone says sea levels will rise in the future? Especially if my sacrifice is useless unless EVERYONE else does it too, and many others are not.

Answer 9

DENIAL
Like Genocide no one believes it's really happening because then they'd have to become involved or deal with the emotions that they did NOTHING to remedy the situation. In the begining or before it got to extreme levels.

Answer 10

Because it it a fictitious load of crap created by the tree huggers to disrupt the way of life as we know it.