Global Warming, Why are Americans are incapable of believing?

Question

Iif you were the worlds biggest polluter and consumer of oil, with the worlds biggest SUVs, and the worlds biggest TVs, and worlds biggest (Fattest) people, and the worlds biggest, fast food drive through windows, and the biggest nation in the western world with the worst public transportation system, would you really want to believe in global warming?

Answer 1

Americans appear to be under some sort of mental control ,or are mass hypnotised or brainwashed
far too many do not believe in global warming whilst

in North Africa,India,Mexico ,millions of people are effected by land loss and desertification


in recent times thousands of people have died because of exessive heat,usually old people.in India ,Mexico and France,
deforestation causing desertification,the desert conditions causing very cold nights and scorching hot days

in china, thousands of what used to be farmers are running for their lives from the dust storms that have burried their towns and turned their lands into dessert,the globe where they were got to hot for them .
and instead of producing food they are now needing it from some where else,and they will drastically effect the world food prices when they start buying water in the form of grains ,at any cost destabalising governments, in some countries ,could be the result
(are you seeing more Chinese around interested in agricultural lands ,we do here in Mexico)

,the Sahara is growing by 7 kilometers a year
and all of the desserts we know are a results of mans actions ,and they are increasing ,not getting less ,in the dinosaurs days ,there were no desserts.

collectively this planet is drying up because of bad farming practices like,over grazing and fertilizers,

as far as the food production is concerned, Global warming or some of its effects are serious,rising seas result in landloss

each degree rise in temperature means 10%crop loss

more landloss because of desertification every year,we have less areble land to produce food ,for an extra 70 million people ,

and there is less and less water (because of deforestation),to irrigate this production ,
and there are less and less farmers to do it..
who are overpumping deep carbon aquifiers
who are plowing more and more unstable lands because they have lost so many million hectares to desertification ,
because of bad farming practises ,such as using fertilizers and heavy machinary or over grazing

RISING SEAS
The northpole is melting ,and we will know it without ice in our life times.
this does not affect the sea level because it is ice that is already in the water.but the melting ice from Green land and the south pole ,are another matter.

Global warming is in theory reversable,but it will mean global co operation between all countries ,and taking into account human nature and the world politics ,it is unlikely that this will happen,

At least not untill we are all in the middle of planetary disastres and it becomes a battle for the survival of humanity every where.

SOLUTIONS
if you want to help the planet ,plant a tree every week ,if everyone on the planet did we we would be able to reverse the destructive processes

reduce carbon emisions,and they are already working on that by alternative forms of energy and regulations on carbon producing materials,aerosol cans,burning rubbish,industrial chimneys,powerplants etc.

the capture of carbon and the production of water and assist the aquiferous manta.

the world bank pays large subsidies for reforrestation to capture carbon and the best tree for this is the Pawlonia

Waterharvesting projects ,such as millions of small dams.to redirect over ground waterflows from the rains into the ground to supply subteranian water supplies.

the protection of existing forrests.

stop building more highways,urban planning to include vegetation stop building cities encourage people to return to the land to conduct their business from there which now has become possible thanks to the internet.

education to motivate people to auto sufficiency by building more home food gardens.

education on environmental awareness
education on family planning to curb over´populaion

Agricultural education and improvements to follow the principals or sustainability and soil management.

more environmental or land ,design to prevent bush fires,such as--fire breaks

,more dams.regulations and control for public behaviour

alternative effeciant public transport to discourage the use of the internal conbustion engine

recicling wastes,limit water use

i am a Permaculture Consultant for the department of Ecology for the regional government in Guerrero Mexico
http://spaces.msn.com/byderule

Source(s) Lester E Brown is the director and founder of the global institute of Environment in the United states .he has compiled a report based on all the satalite information available from NASA,and all the information that has
come from Universities and American embassies WORLD WIDE ,
his little book--a planet under stress , Plan B has been trans lated into 50 languages and won the best book award in 2003.

Answer 2

Europe is not interested in global warming entirely for the good of the planet either. There is significant financial gain to be had in the sale of "carbon credits" to North America. Europe is leading the way in more sound environmental thinking but logistics are much easier in a continent where the population is so densely settled. Part of the reason that North America has the number of cars it does is that driving is the only practical method of getting anywhere. Most Europeans have no idea about the differences in scale between Europe and North America. It's nice when you can impose the limits on others but its hard for any nation to be told what to do no matter what the reason. It all comes down to global politics and economy in the end and North America won't kill its economy to appease Europe even if it kills the planet. If it makes economic sense to "go green" - North America will be spouting about how all their changes will stop global warming as if the idea was theirs.

Answer 3

Personally I have a hard time with it because the theory is based on the consensus of members of the scientific community and not on hard data. It is bad science to form causal relationships absent of exacting experimentation and proof of theorem. Unfortunately, science hasn’t progressed to the point where we know enough about how weather and the environment work to provide the hard data we need to truly pronounce global warming a scientific fact. Thus we rely on what data we do have and create the rest by consensus. That is bad science but it’s the best we got. It could be that global warming is occurring, but without the hard data, I can’t justify investing, fully, into the theory.

Answer 4

They're not incapable of that. Here are just a few of those who believe global warming is real and caused by people.

"The science of global warming is clear. We know enough to act now. We must act now."

James Rogers, CEO of Charlotte-based Duke Energy.

"The overwhelming majority of atmospheric scientists around the world and our own National Academy of Sciences are in essential agreement on the facts of global warming and the significant contribution of human activity to that trend."

Russell E. Train, former environmental official under Presidents Nixon and Ford

"Global warming is already starting, and there's going to be more of it. I think there is still time to deal with global warming, but we need to act soon. Humans now control global climate, for better or worse."

James Hansen, Ph.D. climate scientist, NASA

"By mid-century, millions more poor children around the world are likely to face displacement, malnourishment, disease and even starvation unless all countries take action now to slow global warming."

Michael Oppenheimer, professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University

"We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late. The science is clear. The global warming debate is over."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican, Governor, California

"Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming."

John McCain, Republican, Senator, Arizona

"These technologies will help us become better stewards of the environment - and they will help us to confront the serious challenge of global climate change."

President George Bush, Republican

Answer 5

Becaue of their Wikipedia-like copy-paste science where everybody copies from fake source from the other in an endless loop without ever having the real references.

The basic references are either from the oil industry or from scientist who did truly doubt it... but in the 80´s and changed their mind in the meantime.

It also has to do that with their scientific understanding, it´s easier to believe in religion and their president that going to measure, put excelsheets together, calcultate correlations, and so on...

Concerning the solutions to global warming, the US has a huge potential since its territory combines all kind of possible renewable resources and thanks to the imported foreigners, they even have scientists. So why don´t they use their renewable resources more ? because it hurts the brain to think and they´re to lazy to implement the solutions. It´s so comfortable to do nothing...

Answer 6

The real question (on which there is no agreement whatever) is what, if anything, to do about it. The UN has proposed a 50 year program to address the matter; the price tag is $557,000,000,000,000 -- far more than the total value of every single asset on the planet.

Answer 7

People of Pres. Bush's ilk would ask if you hate us for our freedom, and maybe invade your country for asking that. Fortunately not all Americans are as simple minded or as fatuous
as that. Nor are all Americans ignoring the warnings about global warming. Try not to assume that everyone thinks alike here!

Answer 8

I don't know. But the biggest proponent against GW is Al Gore. It was reported that his mansion contributes 12 times the amount of greenhouse gases (due to electricity use) as the average American. If he doesn't believe, who can?

Answer 9

You know, just a few months ago, the United Nations published a statement that farts from livestock were a greater source for greenhouse gases than all the industrial activity on earth combined. (You must have missed that one.)

Maybe you should be thanking us for eating all those hamburgers and eliminating methane emissions.

Answer 10

i know for sure global warming is a fact. we were taught that as a fact in schools. its real and it makes sense.