Why do conservatives deny reality?

Question

I can choose lots of examples, but I will go with global warming.

For the most part (maybe a few exceptions), none of us on these boards are global warming experts. We don't have degrees in geology, meteorology, or climatology and we don't do any actual research on the subject.

So why are we here trying to debate whether man made global warming is real or not?

We're not the experts. The guys with Phds in meteorology, geology, and climatology are the experts. And what are these people by and large saying? That yes, man made global warming is real. There are numerous SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS that have already gone on record to support it. In contrasts cons only cite a handful of INDIVIDUAL scientists who have some doubt over how much (not whether) human activity are too blame.

Like I said there have been numerous scientific organizations who have gone public in support of man made global warming (below is one example). Instead of accepting the scientific consensus, what do cons do? They come up with (((EXCUSES))). They claim a vast socialist conspiracy. NASA, the National Academy of Science, the American Meteorological Assocation, U.S. Geologic Survey, etc, etc, are all socialist organizations that want capitalism to fail. Either that or they are just after the global warming money.

If you can't trust the scientists, who can you trust? Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the right-wing college dropout pundits?

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The American Meteorology Assocation, a professional group of about 11,000 meteorology professionals founded way back in 1919.

New AMS Statement on Climate Change: Climate is Changing; Humans Play a Role
http://www.ametsoc.org/amsnews/newsreleases.html

Answer 1

well i don't need to be an expert to know that say, gravity (which is a scientific theory) is real.

but get a load of the idiot below me - he somehow knows by heart the name of the one scientist who happens to not agree with global warming - i wonder why that would be.

cons and their agendas are quite simply going to be the end of us...

Answer 2

Conservatives don't deny reality. We confront it head on. However, our opinions are not based solely on the mainstream liberal media, which selectively reports news to fit its own agenda, nor do we give any credence to the idiot purveyors of the global warming theory, such as Barbra Streisand.

I want to make a bet with you. Read the websites I'm including, and ask yourself, if NASA believes that global warming is not much of an issue, and is largely attributable to factors other than human intervention, isn't the mainstream media playing us all for fools? Do you remember back in the 1970's when they were giving us dire predictions about global cooling? Back then, they were trying to scare us about the effects of air pollution. They urged scientists to tell us that pollution was blocking out the sun, and we would soon all be experiencing drastic drops in temperature.

Hmmm..... gee, that nasty liberal media just doesn't seem to be very truthful (or intelligent), does it?

Here's a snippet from the website below:

"The Alpine glaciers are shrinking, that much we know. But new research suggests that in the time of the Roman Empire, they were smaller than today. And 7,000 years ago they probably weren't around at all. A group of climatologists have come up with a controversial new theory on how the Alps must have looked over the ages."

Did the Liberal media ever mention the Inconvenient Truth that back around the time of the Vikings, Greenland was so warm that it supported crops and a variety of livestock? Of course not! They don't want to fill your head with doubts (and the truth).

Here is the truth: increased solar radiation is the main source of the meager 1 degree increase in temperature in the last 100 years. This is perfectly natural. Soviet scientists are predicting a GLOBAL COOLING by 2012.

"A few thousand years ago, there were no glaciers here at all"..."Back then we would have been standing in the middle of a forest"
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/internat

Russian Expert Predicts Global Cooling from 2012
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/02/06/g

OK, obviously I'm not giving you the answer you like, so bye, bye Best Answer Award and 10 points, but do you get my drift that there is a lot more going on than the liberal media will tell you? Both NASA and the Soviets concur: global warming is the natural result of recent increases in solar radiation. Other planets such as Mars and Jupiter are hotter right now too. The sun is just emmitting more energy. In another five years it will subside.

So, here's the challenge. Read the websites below with a critical eye, and post some additional details on your question, ok? We Conservatives aren't as dumb as you think we are. :)

Answer 3

These are the same people than can narrow down a time line within 10 billion years, give or take 25 million. If only 17% of the Worlds leading scientists agree with Al Gores "global warming" maybe the other 83% are onto something.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Amazingly enough the fact we all have Freedom of Speech makes it perfectly OK for us to debate Global Warming. If you truly think the solutions to any topic are going to be found here you are a special kind of nut. I'm not a chef, but I can talk intelligently about what restaurants serve good food. I'm not an athlete, but I can discuss the merits of signing that high priced free agent to shore up my team's lagging secondary. And I'm not a scientist, but I understand enough of the argument to carry on intelligent debate on the subject of man made Global Warming.

And you claims that its only a handful if individual scientists that have gone on record is way off base as is how your statement about how much man is to blame.

Answer 6

These are the same experts who said in the 70s that we were causing global freezing.I think we can go to any university and see that a PhD doesn't make you right.Just look at the 80 PH D's at Duke they based their expert opinion on hate.
I don't know how old you are,but if you are under 30 you will probably get to experience global freezing again in 2040.
And i am sure you will fall blindly in step.

Answer 7

Conservatives deny global warming for the same basic reason that Liberals push 9/11 'truth' conspiracies, and Iranians deny the Halocaust: because, in each case, it's evidence that thier deeply held beliefs are fundamentally flawed.


The Halocaust throws into question the vast Zionist conspiracy that's supposed to control the US (and Europe), and keep the muslim world down. The Zionists were supposed to wield such great power that they were able to re-draw the borders of the middle east after WWI. They obviously couldn't allow 6 million of thier own to be slaughtered, so they must have faked it.

Liberals like to believe that humanity is just one giant ball of multicultural happiness that needs nothing but a little dialogue to come together as one - and the only thing standing in the way are those evil greedy corporate types. That 1/5th of that ball might contain people who hate those same liberals so much that they'd strap on suicide belts and fly planes into buildings to get them is unthinkable - so it must have been faked by those evil greedy corporate types to boost thier oil profits.

In the same way, Conservatives want to believe that God gave them dominion over the world, to use it for thier own benefit (or if they're more capitalist than religious conservatives, that the world's resources can be best exploited privately). That the world would start to fall apart as a result of that exploitation would deny the wisdom and love of God (or the brilliance of Adam Smith), so can't be true - it must be somthing those crazy liberals made up to push thier collectivist agenda. Those darn pinko libs.

Answer 8

Great answer Libs! And by the way, some of us were around before the 1970s when they were predicting another ice age... Even Dr. Bell, this nation's leading hurricane forecaster has denounced both Al Gore and Global Warming.

Answer 9

Anothe rperson that believes book-smart trumps common sense. How many ice ages and warming cycles have we had over the last several million years? Geologically, ice caps have commonly and repeatedly advanced and retreated thousands of miles.

Is man so arrogant to believe that he knows the true reasons behind this activity and how it operates?

Answer 10

Probably the simplest reason is because as long as they deny the reality of global warming, then it means they don't have to do anything about it.

If global warming didn't imply that perhaps people would have to give up their hummers and SUVs and possibly take other actions which would help the world, then I guarrantee you that more people would believe in it.

Never underestimate the human capacity for self-deception.