Global Warming? Why do people not care?

Question

It has always puzzled me why no one cares about Global Waming. Why are giant gas wasting GMC's continuing to be built? Open your eye's, Religion is not going to save the enviroment. How come anyone who cares about our future generations is put into the Liberal catagory. Since the ones who care about the enviroment are mostly Liberals, Republicans have to take the other side and say that G Warming is lies. Alternate fuel forms have already been proven to work, but are not used because the oil industry is so profitable. What do you think? Personaly I hate how GWarming has become a political issue instead of a moral issue.

Religion and Morality are not the same. Religion is based off of faith, morality is taking teachings from life and formulating what you truly believe is right.

I don't think walking is the solution (although some people could use it). It is called alternate fuel for cars and planes. The technoligy is there, but no one wants to do it because it becomes a financial issue

Answer 1

Because we are not the cause of extreme climate change. I does not warrant a religious following - The Cult of Global Warming. Climactic change is natural. It happens. You have people bowing to the sun god and howling at human progress. Humans are minuscule in relation to the earth, nature, and time. The world is not about us. We are another organism experiencing a nanofraction of a change in climate, if any at all. We are not to blame. Are we able to conjure hurricanes and make volcanoes spew lava?

The religion you speak of has nothing to do with Judaism, Islam, or Christianity. None of the major brands. It has to do with the offensive cult forming around global warming. Get your facts straight. You are participating in the foment of a new religion, and it is based upon emotion, not science, not facts.

The new religion is in force because it is a diversion from the most frightening thing humans can really do, and that is to have a war. A nuclear war. The Islamofacists are terrifying the world with their ability to sneak in and kill us. We don't want them to buy nukes. Who do you think wants nukes? Iran. Who do you think is the largest supplier of arms to the terrorists? Iran. And who sells the nuke? Russia.

So people are afraid and blaming something else. Global warming is a diversion. Especially now since the major brands of religion are becoming scorned.

Answer 2

Because the actual facts about global warming are being obfuscated.
The earth is warming, but is this a normal pattern? The scientists that say yes are marginalized and pushed out. The ones that say humanity are the cause are the same ones that say 6 billion people don't contribute to the CO2 or methane emissions.
No one is arguing that the world is warming, that is known. The controversy is whether the fault is in personal vehicles or in the decimation of the rain forests and other natural, high oxygen producing areas or is a natural pattern that we are not familiar with.
Alternate fuels are not proven yet, besides the ethanol mixes and they require a huge cost to get them setup and distributed, not to mention production of the ethanol fuel is not anywhere near being capable of supplying the demand for fuel in any country yet.
The myth is that the world is going to end. I find it funny that Liberals say that Bush is using scare tactics yet the libs are saying our children are going to live in a barren wasteland.
BTW, new studies show that the past couple of hundred years have been a weak hurricane cycle and that we may be seeing the resurgence of the actual, normal hurricanes which are much, much stronger. BTW, these stronger hurricanes were during a time when the seas were colder. How does that work with the current theories?
The myths are numerous and the scare machine is in full gear, but the problem isn't understood nor are the natural systems that are starting to kick in to reverse the trend.
Literally, we don't know what we are looking at and these scare tactics and pathetic theories being thrown about weekly are too narrow in scope and, in most cases, are complete fantasy.
We do need to be aware of what is possible, but the scientific community needs to weed out the alarmists and actually start putting out theory based on the whole system, not some artificially narrowed and subjective tripe that a political pundit has tossed in.

Answer 3

Some Simple Facts:
Yes, there is Global Warming. It has happened before and it will happen again. Example: Middle ages, the global warming was obviously caused by man then also.

The Ice caps have melted, on average, an insignificant amount, causing the sea level to rise an insignificant amount. I have heard claims that 40% of the ice caps are already gone. If that were true, the sea level would have risen 3 feet. Serious misinformation.

Man contributes only minimally to global warming. I have heard claims that 90% of Climate scientists say man outright caused the global warming. That is an outright lie. The figure is more like 10%. Maybe 90% percent believe that Man CONTRIBUTES BUT NOT CAUSES global warming. Misinformation.

Global warming is a political tool used to divert attention from Big Oils raping of America. It is the latest in a line of intentional distractions by politicians. As others have said the “flavor of the month”. What has your politician done about Big Oil. Probably nothing or misinformation.

Global warming is real but used by Alarmists by horrific exaggerations and careful misinformation. These Alarmists spout various facts and figures with little or no truth while denouncing anything that contradicts their views. I often think their actions remind me of psycho sports fans who freak out if you dare to say anything is wrong with their team.

There is good in the global warming debate. It will reduce pollution and increase energy efficiency. I don’t need lies and misinformation to get me to believe that.

Answer 4

Well, that's true. It hasnt hit us hard enough or caused enough disruptions, but it will. Despite what political party you're in, global warming does exist. and even cons admit that it is real, William F. Buckley, wrote a paper on it some weeks ago, in the atlantic.

As a science fan, I have noticed through logging on to spectrometer.org. That the suns energy (light amount) has increased 6% since 1998. This is a scientific fact and cant be disputed.

We need to have land in florida disappear entirely, for rush limbaugh to believe that global warming does in fact exist in some form.

the prime example of climate change in maryland is the ocean city beaches, the water currents are increasing in speed, and are causing beach erosion. So, Not even he (rush) can dispute that.

But on a practical note, whether lib or con, I do my part to recycle. See, I use a solar powered battery charger, Called Isun. I bought it from radio shack 8 years ago, i'm still using the first set of batteries. I used to buy my batteries at the dollar store, Now I use the dollar i spend to other uses. I havent bought a set of AAa's or AA's batteries in 8-9 years.

As for the lights that i use as im writing this, are led powered. Theyre brighter, use a "coin" cell battery. I've developed a way to recharge the "2032" cells, in particular.
My phone batteries use house current when recharging, but in smaller amounts.

These are just some ideas i work to cut down using fuels, and saving electricity.

(btw)I'm polictically moderate. Not a tree hugger.

Answer 5

People not care? It's almost all you heard about for a while there. Until the immigration debate became the flavor of the month. One, the American people are too busy being led by the nose by their entertainment needs, and two, the majority of the population doesn't have an attention span long enough to put together their own retirement plan or a will, let alone try to make a difference in the world.

Global warming is a cycle that the earth goes through naturally, please see the news of the 1970's when we were heading for the next ice age due to global cooling. The earth will cool back down in 20 or so years, just watch. And worse yet all the politicians and activists that are pushing for changes will take credit for Mother Nature coming back as usual and proving that we do what she says, not vice-versa.

Answer 6

I don't think it's really that simple. People do care, but they feel powerless.

Example, they buy one of those hybrids, yet the batteries screw up the environment and recharging them adds to global warming.

Another example, when a home was built in the 50's there was a minimum of electrical outlets. Now a home needs a hell of a lot more to power all our fancy gadgets.

Then we need to get from one side of the country to another and we need to do it in hours, not days. So we use fuel guzzling jets.

Most people in the USA couldn't get by without cars. The grocery store is too far away, schools, job, etc.

Then the politicians give global warming lip service and not much more.

Then the biggest problem is Jobs. If we all of a sudden decide to treat global warming as an immediate threat, the same way we treat terrorism a lot of jobs are going to go away.

In short, we'll be forced to cut back -- so therefore people want to bury their heads in the sand waiting for the inevitable to happen and then when it does, they'll ask our politicians why when its not really their fault, but rather the fault of all.

Kind of screwed up, wouldn't ya say?

Answer 7

There are a number of reasons, but the main culprits are the media and the Republican Party.

The media has grossly misrepresented the science behind global warming in a misguided attempt at balanced journalism. Since over 90% of climate experts agree that the primary cause of the current global warming is humans, the media should reflect that. Instead they always have to represent the other side equally, and they get some crackpot who's funded by the oil industry to present the "skeptics" side as though it had equal credence to the global warming concensus. In its misguided attempt to be balanced, the media has been biased and created the false perception that there is any reasonable doubt that global warming is primarily caused by humans.

The Republican Party has made this a partisan issue, and this may lead to the downfall of their party if we don't get global warming under control in time to avert catastrophic climate change. The funny thing is that most Republicans (even George W. Bush, of all people) acknowledge the truth that humans are the primary cause of global warming, but they don't acknowledge the potential dangers of it and the fact that we need to act right now before it's too late.

In that sense you're correct that they have made global warming into a political issue, while the media has helped them with biased reporting to create a false sense of uncertainty.

Answer 8

I think people don't care because it's another thing that seems to be overhyped. I remember my highschool teacher showing us a old newsclipping from the 80's that said we were in for another ice age, now we are in for global warming. It can become a big issue but we don't care because even if it were to happen on a large scale it will not affect our generation. Also, I believe it has taken a back seat to many headlines because with the advancements in technology today we will have options that will greatly decrease global warming in the future. We are already seeing the intergration of biofuels and eco friendly chemicals in todays world. It is only a matter of time before the enviromental friendly way becomes standard.

Answer 9

I do care about the future. If a person is to actually look into the REAL facts about it, you would notice that in the 30's, the average temp was higher then it is now. The "tree hugger" try to tell ppl that it is because of all of the polutants being emitted into the air. Yes that may be some what of a fact, but lets face it, it isn't going to be the depleating of the ozone, that is going to kill off man kind. The sad thing is, and the truth is, we take more then we give to this planet. But is that going to kill us off any time soon? NOT!
I heard a really good point the other day and you know it makes a lot of sense. First of all, what is one thing that the trees and plant life do? They give us O2. Okay, so everything from the ground up, is cleaned out by the greens. Recirculating dirty air with the fresh. You sit there and are dogging GMC for their gas hogs. Well think about it, what causes more polutants into the air? JETS!!! Look at everything that is kicked out of them. and its above the point that the greens can do anything about. But no one ever thinks about that. Yes i think that it is important that ppl care. But i think that it is equally important that ppl don't go insane thinking about it.
Yes look at the big citys, the smog is awful, but think about this. There is more ppl per square foot, more factories, more polutants then there are trees to clean them out.
So what do we do about it? Read the real facts, and don't let the tree huggers and media get to you. I used to think the way a lot of ppl do. Until my eyes were opened by the facts. Things aren't going down hill as fast as they want you to think, and not cuz of the reason's we have been brainwashed to believe.
I'm not saying "do not care" i'm just saying to plz, research the facts. and don't fall into the cracks of lies that we have been fed for all these years.

Answer 10

What makes you believe in global warming?

The same people who can't tell you with 50% accuracy what the weather will be like tomorrow can accurately predict what it will be like 10 years from now??

Some global warming advocate scientists claim that 2002 was the hottest year in the previous 1,000. Tell me, precisely, what was the average temperature in the year 1002 and where you got that information from.

From historical writings, it is generally agreed that there was a Medieval Warm Period which went from the 9th to the 14th centuries, followed by a "Little Ice Age" which started around 1300. Scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics concluded recent temperature increases pale in comparison with those experienced during the Medieval Warm Period.

For arguement's sake, say that there is global warming. What makes you think that my SUV is causing it?

Millions of years ago, it is generally agreed, the area where I live was covered with ice. It's gone now, but I didn't even have an SUV back then.

In the early 1970's, when I was in grade school, we were all told that we were going to experience another ice age - possibly in our lifetimes. We were as scared then of the coming ice age as you are now of global warming.

I agree that this issue should be scientific and not political. Unfortunately, the UN and Al Gore have completely stolen this issue and have abused the scientific data to further their own agendas.

When a hypocrit like Al Gore tells me to quit driving my SUV and then spends as much on energy for his own home as 20 average families, it buries your cause.

I disagree with you, however, that the ones who care about the environment are mostly liberals. I can't think of a single Republican who wants to feed their children contaminated water or poisonous food. But if you mean that we would rather plow through the home of the snail darter or spotted owl than to spend 20 million dollars to go around it with new roads, guilty as charged.

It is unfortunate that we have not figured out yet how to "download" information straight to our brains. No one can know everything and we all depend on receiving summary information from people we trust. When a topic like global warming has such huge disagreement, you have to do your own research and come to your own conclusions.

If you truly want to know why people doubt global warming and its causes, I suggest you read an article by Lawrence Solomon of the Canadian National Post. http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=22003a0d-37cc-4399-8bcc-39cd20bed2f6&k=0