Why are people so misinformed about global climate change?

Question

like how its "global climate change" not just global warming

i commend those who are fighting global warming, but thats not exaclty all thats happening, there are some places that are going to get cooler, or stay near the same temperature, but they will start getting droughts or floods. and to the people who don't even believe in global warming, can you at least agree that it can't be good that we keep putting all these pollutants into the air, water, and everywhere else, along with using up our unrenewable resources?

and could Answers please change the category?

Answer 1

I am very informed on the subject and can only come to one valid conclusion:

STOP GLOBAL WHINING!!!

Answer 2

As for the term global warming, It is not meant that the world is getting hotter. Only that the heat due to the holes in the atmosphere are creating the green house effect. This heat wave may not affect the weather only but, say extreme heat in a cold ocean creates tsunami's for example. It is a fact that the non-renewable resources we use are mostly used in a contaminated fashion and released into the atmosphere in a definite catastrophic fashion. I could hope that we get a clue but, I can see my future generation living on mars. Sad, but true as humans we almost have the nature to destroy with what we create.

Answer 3

Totally agree that we should stop with the pollutants, but only to protect ourselves from cancer and other diseases.I don't believe in global warming, but will accept the idea of "climate change".What bothers me about the folks who fight so hard for global warming legislation is the fact that they drive the biggest vehicles, live in the largest homes with the biggest heating and cooling systems and then tell us, the common working American, ways that WE can prevent global warming!!!!I say the need to do a reality check and see who the biggest contributors to Climate change really are, and then get those folks out of their back pockets!!!

Answer 4

I wouldn't walk too far down that plank. The scientific evidence for a global warming mechanism is tenuous at best. If you start with the global climate change argument, you have even less support (Hint: records before the twentieth century are imprecise when trying to demonstrate annual changes in extremes.) Droughts and floods happen all the time, and have been doing so for longer than man has been observing them.

But, yes, I totally agree that we should decrease pollution and waste of energy/resources. I just think that over-hyped and unsubstantiated warnings can be highly counterproductive in the long-term.

Answer 5

i admire the duplicity interior the solutions. right this moment they declare that larger snowfalls and precipitation are an instantaneous results of "international Warming". Blah, Blah, Blah... warmer air holds extra moisture and so on. yet in common terms some years returned while an intense drought stretched from Arizona to Georgia and north to North Carolina, that replaced right into an instantaneous results of "international Warming" besides. of course the only way that the consequence of world warming could be predicted is to anticipate some thing to ensue, then arise with a pseudo scientific babble to hyperlink it to international warming. no it is common to assist you comprehend what the destiny will deliver any further than a toss of a coin.

Answer 6

I am 77 and have Sean weather that is not happening now. Back in the old days we Had the dust bowl ,and it was very bad. The main thing I don't like young people start crying about how bad it is . Things may get a lot worse but it is not global warming. I am surprised u bought into that scam. Gore is afraid u will use up the air plane fuel and so forth but U will haft to walk.

Answer 7

Well there's a lot of misinformation out there, and people will latch onto any information that confirms what they want to believe. If they want to believe that global warming isn't caused by humans, they'll accept a lot of bogus information as long as it suggests that GW is caused by something else. This one is my personal favorite - global warming caused by soda pop:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AgFZoK9Z8uYR2ml46X.XM.ojzKIX?qid=20070530105716AActkJH

As for global warming/climate change, it's all synonymous. The average temperature on earth is increasing, so global warming is accurate. Climate all over the planet is changing, so global climate change is also accurate.

Answer 8

There's plenty of peer reviewed scientific substantiation that global warming is real and mostly caused by us:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png

http://profend.com/global-warming/

And, the clincher (see reason below):

http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html

150 authors, 600 reviewers, over 1000 references to the peer reviewed literature.

Reason. "The drafting of reports by the world’s pre-eminent group of climate scientists is an odd process. For many months scientists contributing to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change tussle over the evidence. Nothing gets published unless it achieves consensus. This means that the panel’s reports are extremely conservative – even timid. It also means that they are as trustworthy as a scientific document can be."

George Monbiot

It's not the sun:

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-earth/FAQ2.html

Or a natural cycle:

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:2000_Year_Temperature_Comparison_png

Or anything else the skeptics claim:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/myths/index.html

http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics

Scientific theories are "proven" when the scientific community (and there's always a few skeptics) says they're proven. There's no Supreme Court to render a judgment. And the scientific community has clearly spoken.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686

Good websites for more info:

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/

http://www.realclimate.org

"climate science from climate scientists"

Answer 9

Looks like the idiots and skeptics have hit this page(look at all those thumb-downs...). Well, I know it's global climate change.

Answer 10

Because the mainstream media is preaching it like religion. Left and Right! 24-7! Night and Day! AND IT'S DRIVING ME UP THE WALL!!!!!

And amen about changing the category. I was flabbergasted when I saw that "Environment" had it's own section all to its onesees.