Why is it so hard to believe that the climate is changing?

Question

I am asking you people, why don't you care about global warming? Society/Government/People in charge/ANYONE ANYWHERE doesn't seem to care. Some people doesn't even seem to be aware of it or realize that it's happening. No one isn't doing anything. I mean, I haven't noticed any progress. And seriously, those who still don't "believe" in such thing as Global Warming/Climate Change, you really need to get updated. You rather believe in such thing as a "God" than an actual, upcoming event? That is ridiculous. There is facts and evidence that the climate is going to change radically, but so far there has never been any evidence of God's existence whatsoever. That just proves how fked up people are..

I never said that God

1) is the main cause of Climate changes
2) has ANYTHING to do with Climate changes
3) is the 'only' thing only stupid people believe in.

I was just giving some of you retards a great example of these religious people who don't have any idea what's going on. I just wanted to point out how stupid that is. And OF COURSE they are not the only ones at fault. Im not saying that. I mean, if you think about it we're all responsible. I am just freaking out a little, and that I think is a good sign. So should other people too.

Answer 1

You are wrong. The majority of people that doesn't believe in Global warming never mentioned God. It is a scientific discussion. I see that you know nothing about science. For your information, the Earth was plain until someone proved it wrong. I particularly can't agree or disagree with global warming, because I see valid points in both theories and have not studied it myself. I am sure you didn't even try to study it, since you didn't give any good argument to prove it besides that "it is a fact". What is your proof? That it is getting warmer? Well, to me it seems that this summer it is not so hot as last year...
Besides, I am sure you are all upset about people not believing it, but you are probably driving your car, using your air conditioning, etc.
So I don't accept the fanatic behavior about global warming if you are not 100% free of guilt.

Answer 2

Well, there are a few things that make people hesitant.

1. To believe something, most people have to experience it. It's not enough for many people that reputable folks have taken precise measurements and come up with a reasonable conclusion. In the case of scientists, there have been many instances of being wrong in the past, so people are hesitant about trusting them. This IS about trust as well as about science. What is being asked is that people completely change their lifestyles on the say so of people they aren't sure they can trust.

2. There is so much more information available these days, and no easy way of sorting it into a hierarchy. Everyone has an opinion, and if they have a website, too, they can share their opinion with you. Do they have a degree? Is is a real degree? Is it an advanced degree? Is it from a good school? Is it in a relevant field? Do they have any experience? How do we verify any of that? It's getting pretty tough to find out who's smart and who isn't. At the very least, it takes some investigative work. We can't always figure out which is spam e-mail and which isn't. How are we going to figure this out?

3. People who understand the above points may not have our best interests at heart. Maybe they are hired or influenced by oil companies. Maybe they are hired or influenced by Greenpeace. Maybe George Bush or Al Gore put them up to it. How do we know? How can we find out? How can we be sure?

So anyway, I don't really think "God" is the problem. I think belief and trust are the problems. My own projection is that we will not, as a world, address the problem of global warming with sufficient cooperation and with sufficient participation. We will not stop producing greenhouse gases in the USA, and places where industry is now just starting to take off will not, either. They will say, "You had your chance. Now it's our turn." By the time everyone accepts the facts, and our responsibility for our planet, it will be too late. Our only chance is to find technology that will allow us to be irresponsible for a while longer while we sort this out. I'm sorry to be such a pessimist, but at present, this is the way it looks to me.

Answer 3

I'd say the biggest problem is that no one has done a good job of presenting global warming as a human caused event. I can see the data that says we are getting hotter. OK, what do you want me to do about it? Show people a clear concise presentation that shows all the natural factors and each of their relative contributions to warming then show the human factors and their relative contributions. People can easily envision the sun making the earth heat up. The human cause is mostly what is in debate and Al Gore's third grade little cartoon was just stupid. You want people to spend money on this then you better be convincing.
You can go around saying "scientists have proven". I am a scientist and I haven't seen enough data to convince me. I'm not a climate scientist so I haven't been researching it but no one has shown me a detailed enough presentation to convince me of the human causation.
If human causation is not proven the why not let the climate run it's coarse. Who are we to decide what the right climate is?

Answer 4

Global Warming is very real.

Without a doubt there is factual data that our earth is warming .

What is at question is the cause.

The sun plays a huge role. What occurs in our solar system plays a huge part. Admittedly, humans and our need for dirty energy play a role as well.
From the information I have read though, humans play a very small role in Global Warming- changes occur as a natural sequence on our planet.

I would like to think we are innocent, but have you ever tried to live by a freeway? What is that black greasy stuff all over your home, it causes us to cough and wheeze. Have you ever seen all the dead animals in an oil slick?

At the same time do you have any idea the enormous impact that Mt Saint Helens has played on our atmosphere? In one single explosion it created more change to our atmosphere then any documentable human contributions.

Should we find better "clean fuel?" Absolutely. Should we panic and risk our economy? Absolutely Not.

Should we become for friendly with our environment and make an effort to protect the natural evolution of the earth? Absolutely. Should we cut off our right arm to protect the left? Absolutely not.

We know that we should use more fuel friendly vehicles. Conserve water. Protect wildlife. But we need to remember that a sudden restriction without an equal solution will cause disasterous results on our economy- those who will feel the effects the most are the ones who struggle to feed their families as it is....

Everyone can do a little something- grow some of your own veggies without chemicals, compost, buy recycled materials, recycle materials, avoid throwing away perfectly good materials-share. Ask our political leaders to ease big industry with incentive towards a more environmentally and civilian friendly mode of operation.

Much of what we see would occur regardless of, but without recognizing that our tiny impact on our planet could and will snowball in the next couple hundred years or so, we would be behaving ignorantly.

Answer 5

It is not hard to believe, in fact it is ignorant to expect our climate to remain static when everything in nature is constantly changing. The debate is over whether the climate change is caused by humans or naturally occuring.

And I don't see what God has to do with this. There are people who believe in God and climate change, people who believe in one and not the other and people who believe in neither. I feel you only made that statement to infer that people who believe in God are stupid. Grow up. When you do you will realize that there is more to issues like global warming than freaking out, having a bad attitude and putting down religious people.

Answer 6

climate substitute is truthfully plausible. all of us know its happened a number of situations formerly. the element is, the Human Species did not have something to do with it. (probable because of the fact AlGore wasn't around to declare that it did) Fossils have been got here upon on all continents, plate tectonics inevitably includes climate substitute for the continental plates. Polar shift has happened. There are a huge kind of motives why climates can substitute yet in undemanding terms CO2 emissions furnish the possibility to make AlGore and Goldman-Sachs somewhat some funds. it particularly is a key element in assessment of almost something, persist with the money and see who makes the income.

Answer 7

My two cents: People (politicians and governments included) in my view have "no option" or at least "no perceived option" to the gasoline-burning cars, trucks, and other vehicles. (Actually, there is, as there are electric vehicle conversion outfits that will convert any gasser into an EV, but that's another story.)

Furthermore, in my view, most people are just too plain lazy, content to watch their TV perhaps, to get to work, wrenching their own non-polluting vehicles, as we've done (see link below, an electric car that costs 30 cents a day to run, while reducing batteries that were on their way to a recycling or landfill.)

Unless people make their own EV's, or at least, buy the hundreds of used ones that are sitting unused (I know many), the dire predictions in the books like "Lives Per Gallon" and "The Last Generation" will become realities.

Anybody here from Vermont? Vermonters are known to be willing to buck the mainstream, make an effort, or two. Wish there were more Vermont-thinking people out there who can take action.

As far as your question about "progress", we're waiting for some MOVERS and SHAKERS to take the revived battery to the next level; we're just geeks and tinkerers, here.

Oddly enough, people from the sinking islands in the Pacific seem the least vocal.

http://www.austinev.org/evalbum/1091

Those who are skeptical can watch this newscast..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEq-GbVcFTA (global TV newscast)

Answer 8

The climate is always changing, as there is no such thing as a static climate.

The change is natural and has nothing to do with anything man is doing. In time, the pendulum will swing towards global cooling without any input from man.

Answer 9

Global Warming? Where is it in New Jersey? I come up to NJ from Florida every year. I freeze my butt off in NJ until mid or late July. Temps go up to the "mid 80's", and these people think it's "HOT".

I grew up in NJ, and we always were at the beach in June, just after school let out (Memorial Day Week). Yeah, we had to wear sweaters to go to school in September, but I sure as hell don't remember wearing sweaters in the summer unless we were going on the boardwalk at night.

The NaySayers this week have been saying that the ocean temps warming up have been the cause of 10% (or some percent) of hurricane increase over the last hundred years. Hellfire! Nobody gave a damn about hurricanes hitting Florida until the big Condos hit the coasts!

Global waming is a crock of $$$.. mostly given to those who preach about it.

Answer 10

The climate may change its proven that over the eons, what would you have us do? I don't know how God got into this? Many people who believe in a God also believe in the Scientist and Politicians running around preaching the "global warming its all your fault" mantra. To me they are just like the Witch doctors and Shaman of old dancing around the fire and shaking a rattle scaring the tribe into believing the boogie mans gonna get em.