Why do some conservatives not believe in global warming, but still believe Saddam had WMD?

Question

do they just belive the things that have the LEAST evidence to support them?

one of saddam's former generals says Saddam moved the WMD (the big new ones that Bush said he just made) to Syria or something and they take it as fact...

but the majority of the scientific world does research on something and comes to certain beliefs and your "naive" if you belive them?

now, granted, neither one is indisputable fact true or false... but which one seems more trustworthy?

majority of the global scientific community that has done numerous studies to come to their findings...

Saddam general who probably tortured people...and who may get out of jail and get a book deal if he tells the "right" story

can conservatives read?

I clearly state that neither are fact... yet they keep calling me stupid and telling me to "get an education" and find out that neither is a fact?

perhaps this is part of the problem?

Bush said we were going after WMD made post gulf war, long after the kurd gassing... look it up...

there is NO EVIDENCE to support that any of these weapons were ever even made... after we've been there 5 or so years...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7634313/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Anfal_campaign

... ended in 89... not what Bush was talking about...

Answer 1

It is called Compartmentalization. Or the ability to hold two totally incompatible thoughts as both true because they never mix the concepts.

If one of their Authority Figures says that open trailers with dark brown canvas covers sitting in the desert were making Bioweapons, and the next day said they were making invisible submarines, these folks would believe both things, and parrot it back as needed.

Since Al Gore, and Michael Moore are called liars by their authority figures, they will disbelieve a glacier is melting even if they showed a movie of it retreating up the valley, just because it is Gore saying so.

Even when their own insurance decides to let them die rather than spend the money needed to let them live, they will think it OK and hate Mr Moore for saying otherwise.

This is actually a well studied Pathology called Right Wing Authoritarian (RWA) and their leaders Social Dominant Orientation (SRO). When these two groups get togeather, the whole world suffers.

Research has shown that RWA's

* Make many incorrect inferences from evidence.
* Hold contradictory ideas
* Uncritically accept that many problems are ‘our most serious problem.’
* Uncritically accept insufficient evidence that supports their beliefs.
* Uncritically trust people who tell them what they want to hear.
* Use many double standards in their thinking and judgements
* Be dogmatic.
* Be zealots.
* Be hypocrites.
* Be absolutists
* Be bullies when they have power over others.
* Help cause and inflame intergroup conflict.
* Seek dominance over others by being competitive and destructive in situations requiring cooperation.
* Believe they have no personal failings.
* Avoid learning about their personal failings.
* Be highly self-righteous.
* Use religion to erase guilt over their acts and to maintain their self-righteousness.
* Weaken constitutional guarantees of liberty, such as the Bill of Rights.
* Accept unfair and illegal abuses of power by government authorities.
* Trust leaders (such as Bush) who are untrustworthy.
* Sometimes join left-wing movements, where their hostility distinguishes them.
* But much more typically endorse right-wing political parties.

This is why the Gang Of Pirates, and the Communists all speak/spoke as one because they are both Authoritarians.

By comparison since Democrats are not, they are like herding cats.

It is also why non-Authoritarians have trouble relating as they still think the real world means something.

Answer 2

I am a conservative and I am skeptical about BOTH. Are you?

I am skeptical about WMD's because we didn't find any. Doesn't mean they didn't exist but without them it causes skepticism.

I am skeptical about Global Warming because it doesn't fit the scientific method, or at least it doesn't until you can give me a scientific test that allows "other researchers the opportunity to verify results by attempting to reproduce them."(1).

You can give me test that show results (ice melted) that would fit with global warming but you can not show me that man produced X and it caused Y. Once you can do that then the question becomes...how do you know the perfect climate/temperature?

Answer 3

It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein HAD WMD. He used them on his own people. Ever hear of him gassing the Kurds? Chemical weapons ARE WMD.

There is no conclusive evidence to support man-made global warming. We have not been studying the Earth's cycles long enough to know how climates can change over time.

Answer 4

Because of facts and facts.
I was still smart when the media told me the ozone layer was disappearing and the Earth was cooling! Can you believe that?! In 1990, Phoenix, Arizona had a record high of 122 degrees when I was told the passed few years beforehand that the Earth was in a state of cooling!

Find a different conspiracy, the Global Cooling isn't gaining any ground.

Answer 5

because the french scientest who therorised , yes it is a theory, said that after reviewing his data there is not enough evidance to support global warming...

Sadam has used WMD's in the past on the Kirds (93 rember when he gassed entire villages) Was that not a WMD? He has built nukes in the bast and Isreal took out the factory in 1981.

Answer 6

Because there is little evidence for global warming occurring and no evidence that human activity has any effect on weather.

Because Saddam USED WMD. We know he had it. We know he hid it. Exactly where is the mystery. It might be in Syria or Lebanon.

Answer 7

Not all conservatives.

Newt Gingrish, Pat Robertson, Rudolph Guiliani (fiscal conservative), and even Bush Jr have seen the light.

Bush Jr now admits fossils fuels are to blame. He just doesn't want to do anything about it. He wants voluntary regulations. Corporations don't have to obey them.

It makes as much sense as having voluntary laws.

Answer 8

Selective truth.

Answer 9

I do not believe in Global Warming, and I do not believe that Saddam had WMD ... and I do not call myself a conservative

Answer 10

Funny question! It CANNOT be proved that global warming is CAUSED by humans. That's where it gets sticky - we just aren't going to say that "correlation" is "causation" because we can't even find correlation.

Democrats voted that Saddam had WMD just like Republicans did.

Do some homework please... educate yourself from unbiased sources (if you can find any!!) and don't listen to everything people tell you.