why are some poeople so ignorant?

Question

it kinda bugs me how i go through the enviroment section of questions and there is a ton of people answering saying that global change in the climate is not real....... are they trying to say that they are smarter about the subject than scientists who study their whole lives about the climate and the earth.......scientists have proven that there is a global climate change....why cant people just accept it. scientists have proven it is real and i beleive them because that is what they do they are proffesionals, why are some people so ignorant?..

i agree with what ur are saying...that is also what i meant is that people are refusing to admit that some of it might be man made i really dont know ....Either way man made or not its happening and some people are refusing to beleive it

Just because it's not a problem for you now does not mean it won't be a problem for you later.

Answer 1

I do not believe people are all that ignorant, they are often misinformed. There are some very influential individuals in the media, that preach that man has had limited affect on the environment and the changes are all natural and nothing to be concern about. They are willing to take the information of these showmen over the work of scientist or just to lazy to check out the research themselves. In this day and time many people rely on the media to gain their "facts", and just go with the flow.
It may also, be that they prefer that not to be afraid, and hide their heads in the sand, than look for solutions. It really does not matter if the global warming is man made or not. The fact is it is occurring, the fact that we keep auguring only delays any action. And we all lose.

Answer 2

It's not that most people are ignorant, it's just that it's easier to keep doing what we are doing instead of changing. I don't know what's causing global warming. I suspect it's a combination of factors. But the bottom line for me is that it doesn't matter. I probably won't be around when/if there is serious harm done by extreme climate change. I do know that I breathe air today. And pollution from human activity does affect that air, so we should all strive for better air quality today for our own, regardless whether it factors into long-term climate change. Maybe more people would change for this reason even if they don't believe in global warming.

Answer 3

What about the scientist who study the climate for years and say global warming has nothing to do with man? Do you think your so much smarter than they are that you can just dismiss their research as bunk?

Many scientists have proved that there is no man made cause for any climate change, that climate change is normal, as there is no such thing as a static climate.

Other "scientists" depend on funding for their lively hood. This is what pays the mortgage, buts food on their families table, and puts the kids through college. Why would they want to upset their gravy train?

Dr. James Hansen has made a handsome profit by claiming "global warming" is real. He took $250,000.00 to endorse John Kerry for President, worked on Algores movie, and is paid by 'The Weather Channel'. He would never get the same opportunities if he said that global warming was natural. Like anything else, - follow the money.

Answer 4

Science has always had a tough time with ignorant people.
When Copernicus discovered that the Earth was not the center of the Universe,he was thrown in prison for years! The Church didn't want the TRUTH to get out! It's the same today. The ones in power don't want us to know the dirty little truth!

Answer 5

Irrational people are very good at finding ways to believe what they want to believe.

Some great examples here. We've got humans aren't responsible, humans are only responsible for 6% (wonder out of which orifice he pulled that figure?), it's all a hoax, etc. etc.

I think that answers your question pretty well - people either don't know what the scientific experts are saying, or they don't care. The problem is that there's a lot of misinformation and lies out there, and people who don't want to believe that humans are responsible for global warming will latch onto it. Even when you disprove their misinformation, they refuse to admit they're wrong. I've personally emailed william8_5 a link to the IPCC report because his information was so bad. He refused to read it, and now he's claiming that scientists say that humans are only responsible for 6% of global warming, rather than the 80-90% they actually conclude. His ignorance only has him off by 80%!

The people who call it all a hoax are the worst. In every aspect of their lives they rely on science, but suddenly they don't like what scientists are saying and they're all in on a vast conspiracy. It's pretty pathetic the levels to which people will stoop to convince themselves of what they want to believe.

Answer 6

I wonder where you get the idea that Scientists are innately right about everything. In the area of environment alone you rarely get two scientist's to agree on exactly how, why, and where some effect will happen let alone the ones who don't agree with the majority consensus period. Somebody has got to be wrong they cant all be right. Even at their last little summit they only came out with the statement that they were 90% sure that humanity was effecting the environment unfavorably to a detrimental end.

Well thank you Mike, one of the worst things a Scientist can do is give a politician or a movie star some numbers to run up to a camera with cause people check what they say and usually find out the info has been selectivly used, taken out of context or greatly exagerated.

Answer 7

its easy to say something that keeps you from:

A) Caring
B) Getting up and doing something
C) Changing the way you live
D) take a risk
E) Pay more $$$ for something that will pay off in the long run
F) do something for the greater good for other people and not just yourself
G) and the biggest of all....ADMITTING THEY WERE WRONG


these are huge hurdles that people never think about trying to accomplish. It is much easier to deny ones existence than having to change and deal with it.......not until it greatly affects them or a love one will these people snap out of the ignorance in which they live their lives every day

Answer 8

The big debate has been whether the climate change is natural or man made. Climate fluctuations are a natural occurance, but some say that humans are bringing this one on. Maybe they are saying that they don't believe the climate change is man made.

Answer 9

The number 1 issue is what is the primary root cause of this warming. What people are rejecting, and you seem to be ignoring, is that we the people of the earth are the primary cause, and only cause of the global warming issue. Even the scientists that you want to endorse are saying the same thing. Are we the people a PART of the problem, yes. Are we the whole cause of the problem, no, we are not. Making such differentiations might help you sleep better at night and keep your level of frustration down.

Answer 10

scientists are using a very small amount of short term data to try to extrapolate what will happen or has happened over many THOUSANDS of years...

There are a lot of fallacies being propagated by global warming alarmists... things that are absolutely unrealistic.

in the 1970's we had global cooling alarmists... using similarly spurious arguments and saying that by 1999 the majority of the US would be covered in ice several feet thick... THEY WERE WRONG.

They were predicting ocean levels to drop by 15 to 25 feet... based on an apparent appx /4 inch drop.... they were wrong.

BTW... the apparent 1/4 inch rise in ocean levels being used to proclaim doom and gloom has put them back where they were appx 1950...

1970's we had abnormally low solar output... and had average temperatures over the globe lower than normal.

Now we are having abnormally high solar output and... higher than normal temperatures.

Maybe Nature is the reason for the changes and man is essentially insignificant.

My theory is based on just as good data (the same date) as the global warming alarmist's THEORY....

They don't have proof... they have ASSUMPTIONS made based on limited data.