Why do people think global warming isn't real, just because it's cold outside..?

Question

Anyone who takes five minutes to actually reseach the topic would understand that it's not just making certain parts of the world that are normally very cold warmer, but it is changing climates everywhere - excessive rain in normally dry places, excessive drought in other places, places that never get snow are seeing it fall this year (Pheonix, AZ), and extreme weather is more and more common (three weeks ago it was like spring in NY, now they have early 8 feet of snow on the ground) etc....
How can someone who never read anything on the topic, other than a headline, form such strong opinions?

Answer 1

If you believe in the gospel according to Al Gore, than you're hopeless. Global warming is just the catch phrase of the new 2000's. Back in the 70's it was the next ice age is coming.

The wacko tree hugging environmentalist would love to have you believe that man (and the U.S.A. in particular) is the cause of all this. The earth being how many tens of thousands years old, and in our short 200+ year history of the United States we caused global warming. Give me a break,

We know for a fact that the sun is on an 11 year solar cycle (I worked in an solar observatory for four years) with peaks and valleys as to the amount of sun spots (directly related to the temperature of the sun) and the solar activity emitted from the sun.

Now to planet earth, who's to say that the earth isn't on a 100 year cycle, a 250 year cycle or pick your own time frame. The fact is that we just don't know. Temperature measuring and recording have only been wide spread in the last 50 years,

So if we all park our cars I guess that will be the end of the warming trend right? Guess again, that's all it is, is a trend. Tell the folks in Oswego NY that just got 11+ feet of snow that its global warming. Tell the folks in the Midwest that have been experiencing the longest below normal stretch of temperatures in years its global warming.

Now the AMA (American Meteorologist Association) is going to pull their certification to any meteorologist who doesn't subscribe to global warming. These are also the same type of people that believe the sky is falling, but it must be true, they did make a movie about it (see Chicken Little and al gores joke).

Nuff said, if you still want to subscribe to global warming you're beyond hope at this point.

Answer 2

How can anyone who has researched the issue in depth and understands the magnitude of climate cycles and those factors that affect them believe that puny man has really effected a significant change in climates? What caused the past ice ages and warming periods before humans were extant? Are we near ht end of a natural warming period and will soon find the temperatures plummeting? There simply isn't enough significant and reliable data available about 'normal cycles' and what drives them to access all the possible factors of any current change and then say beyond a doubt that mankind is responsible even if the current trend continues. It has absolutely nothing to do with how cold or warm it is or how much precipitation there has been this winter in any given location this year, decade or century. We must 'think' in much longer periods of time and establish what a 'normal deviation' actually might be for the past. Then we still cannot predict the future which may be mitigated by the sun's cycles or 'flukes', a volcanic eruption, or many other factors extant but exigent.

Answer 3

I have no idea. Just because its cold outside, it has no reason why Global Warming is not occuring. I keep telling people to look at the long term affects and to start tracking them. The one thing i told them to check out is the increase in intensification with hurricanes and the melting of iceburgs in Anartica and Alaska

Answer 4

You know, it’s just like a group of people traveling on a ship for along trip, some of them started decking at the lower level to reach the water, because there is no water on the ship except on the upper level.
If the people of the upper level don’t care, what do you think is going to happen to the ship and the whole people, at the upper and lower levels?

Answer 5

Short answer: There's a lot of stupid people out there. They don't know anything about global warming past what they hear on talk radio where they're told that it's all a gub'mint conspiracy to guilt us into wasting fewer resources.

I wouldn't hold out any hope for them.

Answer 6

hey its not that people dont know
just they are busy in their monotonous life ,they have been trapped in cobwebs around them
they just dont get time to think about it