need help convencing my mom about global warming!!!!!!!!!!?

Question

She is a harcore believer that global warming IS NOT happening. Now I have tried to explain it to her but she WILL NOT believe me no matter what I say. Can someone tell me how to get it across to her that there IS global warming!!!

Answer 1

That's a toughie. if your mum chose to not accept the theory for religious or ideological reasons pretty much nothing you say will change her position. Just ask her to objectively examine the evidence for both sides. Explain to her that nearly every single climate scientist in the world accepts the theory, and try to calmly and clearly answer any questions she might have about the theory. Most of the time people don't accept the theory because they just don't understand it. So try to read up on it as much as you can yourself so you'll be familiar with any objections she has to it.

Getting into a fight or an argument over it won't do anything. My dad used to be the exact same way about it. It took a while and a lot of patience but eventually I got through to him and he at least now accepts most of the theory, though not all of it (still working on that bit : p

An excellent place to start you reading is this site below. It's a nicely written and comprehensive history of the theory from its origins in the 19th century to today. It's a great read even if you don't accept the theory.

http://www.aip.org/history/climate/co2.htm

If you want to read refutations of every single argument the skeptics have come up with, you can't do much better that Coby Beck's Blog 'illconsidered.blogspot.com'. he has a special section devoted solely to talking to global warming skeptics, which should come in really handy when talking to your mum.

Enjoy and good luck!

Answer 2

She is no fool this is why you can not change her mind her. You are too young to have seen changes in the weather. She knows it has been hotter back in the 1920s and 1930s.. She knows that the hurricanes over the last few years are just not out of normal.

She also know this is all about controlling the mass and votes.
Why? because she has seen it all before.

Please try and think for your self and not be blinded by the hype.

Tell me if this is real why is this true.
Solar scientist say the sun is putting out more energy.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/23/05/14.html

Or this
The Chandler wobble is a factor considered by satellite navigation systems (especially military systems). It is also claimed to be the cause of major tectonic activity, including earthquakes, volcanism, El Niño, and global warming phenomena

and
Polar motion is the movement of Earth's rotation axis across its surface.The mean displacement far exceeds the magnitude of the wobbles.

or this
Medieval Warm Period Period of relative warmth in some regions of the Northern Hemisphere in comparison with the subsequent several centuries.These include the citation of the cultivation of vines in Medieval England, and the settlement of Iceland and southwestern Greenland about 1000 years ago, as evidence of unusual warmth at this time. As noted by Jones and Mann (2004)

or this
The little ice age.
Western Europe experienced a general cooling of the climate between the years 1150 and 1460 and a very cold climate between 1560 and 1850 that brought dire consequences to its peoples. The colder weather impacted agriculture, health, economics, social strife, emigration, and even art and literature. Increased glaciation and storms also had a devastating affect on those that lived near glaciers and the sea.



Think for your self.

Answer 3

Instead of trying to deny global warming, blaming others or finding reasons not to take action, look at it like this:

Fact: All our resources are finite.

If we act as if global warming exist, and we were wrong, we will have moved towards a more efficient economy.

If we do nothing, and global warming does exist, the results will be devastating.

Answer 4

Oh the planet could very well be heating up bud....but its not the fault of humans. Our ego causes us to believe we are all powerful. We cannot predict the weather probably never will. 1593 was the birth of the first primitive thermometer. The ability to measure the earth surface temp has only been around for about 60-70 years. The earth is about 5 billion years old. So to say it is warming due to us is silly.
The strongest theory (and mind you these are all theories) is that we are still coming out of the ice age which is estimated to have taken up most of the earths time. This planet could very well be almost as hot as Venus. Another thought is that the earth is moving closer to the sun. Which it is but will it return to its former trajectory and does this affect planet temp that much. We humans have been around for such an infinitesimal amount of time that we don't know what is normal and what is abnormal.

Now if you need to convince her that pollution is going to kill us off then just take a trip to L.A. and go for a 5 min jog. No smart person is arguing that point but is pollution heating the planet....doubt it. The ozone layer by the way is shrinking.

I would aso like to congratulate the few people below qutoting ol AL and his ramblings. He is the last person who needs to have an opinion in this matter. He only wants attention. Since his so called carbon footprint far exceeds that on your so called antichrist Bush I will never understand how you people claim another persons word as fact.

Snopes.com will let you see for yourself about Gors energy fiasco. Snopes is also the only source on th internet I trust.

Answer 5

The Green Police even want to control what people think!! Practice up on your mother. Some day you may be chief of the Propaganda Ministry

BTW....

The ice-core data is frequently cited as principal evidence to argue that CO2 is the earth’s main climate driver. Rises in the CO2 level "closely corellate" to rises in temperature. It is the jewel in the crown of the theory of man made global warming. But the ice-core data does not show that CO2 drives climate. It shows, very clearly, that the opposite is true!! Variations in temperature precede rises in atmospheric CO2 by several hundred years. It's true they correllate, but with an inverse relationship to that inferred by the Global Warming quacks.

Talk about an inconvenient truth.

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Answer 6

Here's how you convince her. It's very simple.

It's a fact that the earth went through an ice age thousands of years ago. Ask her how the earth came out of the ice age. The answer is obvious ... the earth had to warm. This trend of cooling & heating has been going on for millions of years, and is continuing. We are currently in a warming trend. Many believe that man is contributing to it through the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Whether or not man is contributing is debatable, but whether or not the earth has warmed in the past and is warming now isn't debatable.

Answer 7

The simple fact is, you don't need to. Who cares if she "believes" or not. You don't need to convince her to believe, you need to convince her that "going green" is beneficial. Now for some people, you tell them about global warming and that's enough. But if your mom chooses to ignore that, tell her about the social and economic benefits of a more environmentally conscious lifestyle.

People that don't believe in religion are still capable of being moral, just as people who don't believe in global warming can still be capable of being environmentally friendly.

Answer 8

To me a good argument is that without the earth greenhouse effect we would have a temperature of -18 degrees Celsius instead of our current +14. This is a well known fact. (Ask the skeptics if they have the nerve to deny that.)

If we increase the most important greenhouse gas CO2 (except for water vapor) by 35% compared to (high) pre-industrial levels, wouldn't it be logical if that increases the earth temperature as well? What will be likely to happen if we continue and double the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere?

Read this site for more arguments: http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics

Good luck and keep trying!

Answer 9

Two ideas, maybe use both. Show her this graph:

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png

Explain what it shows. That, until about 40 years ago, climate was mostly due to natural forces. Then our burning of fossil fuels and production of greenhouse gases, over powered nature.

Ask her why she doesn't believe in it. Write that down. Then look here:

http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462

for an answer to her. If she has a lot of patience have her read all 26 questions.

Good luck.

Answer 10

Just agree with her that humans are not responsible. Global warming also happened during the Middle Ages. We survived that somehow, why wouldn't we survive this one?
And for those who dwell on mankind's 'carbon footprint', consider this: Man's addition to CO2 in the atmosphere amounts to 0.03% of the air. That's not enough to be statistically significant. Yes, we need to switch to renewable fuels, for ECONOMIC reasons. But it's stupid to spend so much energy crying wolf about something that happens naturally with or without mankind's assistance.