With a complete lack of proof that man has an effect on climate why do so many people believe we cause it?

Answer 1

One word: Indoctrination.

Answer 2

Hello, I was intrigued by your question as i found you were confused by a misinformation guru. OK here it is in a nutshell as i will try not to confuse you any more than humanly possible. The information we are given by the world scientific community might seem to be sketchy but this is because this field is somewhat new to us and the lack of funding for in depth studies is what anchors us. It is a real life problem and the culprit is mega dollar oil and gas fattened companies and society, they would like us to believe that everything is rosy so they can go on making their billions. Even you can't deny that there is an increase in automobiles and factories around the world and refining causes waste gasses and pollution. This is only the beginning of what is going to be a very interesting period of mankind's history. You see the fine dust from volcano's when discharged into the atmosphere can cause global cooling of 1 - 3 degrees but carbon is different it absorbs heat and also absorbs ozone which in turn super heats the troposphere causing the heat to build and not escape , much like a black plastic bag. The rain forest of 30,000,000 years ago absorbed the carbon from the birth fires of long ago and now the lack of the huge tropical forest is going to cause a collapse of this planets venting system. Voila you have a planet that is slowly cooking. Look up at the moon and you will see what this planet Will look like once the ozone layer is gone. I for one informed Canadas oil rich Alberta to this fact 18 years ago and now more than a few are truely frightend -Now "sigh"

Answer 3

OK, you have probably heard a lot of people say that Global Warming is just a natural cycle, and that there's nothing we can do to stop it from occurring. While there is some truth to that (Global Warming is a natural cycle, and it's going to occur no matter what) there's something else out there that's messing up this natural cycle, and is making it like nothing the world has ever seen before. That new factor is human activities. Human activities directly affect the greenhouse effect (which directly affects Global Warming), you see greenhouse gases a natural in the atmosphere to keep us from freezing over, but since the beginning of the industrial age, we (humans) have added excess greenhouse gases into the atmosphere that aren't suppose to be there (and the more we add the harder it is for the earth to remove them). These excess gases trap more heat and release less causing the whole earth to heat up (a.k.a. Global Warming) this is NOT good because the slightest change in the earth's climate systems can affect the entire thing. Causing new climate patterns to emerge that we may not be able to adapt to (and about 1/3 to 2/3 of the worlds species as well).

But there is still hope. We currently have all of the technology, money, man power, and resources we need to EFFECTIVLEY slow Global Warming back down to its modest warming over thousands of years.

To get more information, evaluate your daily impact, and to find out how you can start reducing your daily impact (cheaply) go to climatecrisis.org and/or think.mtv.com and/or nasa.gov and/ or http://liveearth.msn.com/green/myths

And if this still isn't working for you then I have a question for you. In about 30 years (if humans haven’t decide to change our ways, go green, and slow down the effects of Global Warming to its natural rate) and the effects of Global Warming have set in so far that there's nothing we can do or any one after us can do to reverse what WE have done, and my children/grandchildren and you children/grandchildren have to live with the horrible effects What are you going to say? What are you going to say when they ask you, "What were you thinking? Why didn't you do anything?"

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO SAY?

Answer 4

Its called panic, caused by the psychological dependence on debt.
If people had no debt and were happy with what they had then the would worry less about the weather.
Those people in Africa who are starving because of poor politicians etc do you think the care about climate change or having a better life.
Climate change religion has come about because of the lack of spirituality amongst the wealthy of the world. And I do not mean religiousness.
It is a kind of madness to imagine that a species can turn around a changing climate on a whole planet when the planet is in constant flux.
There are a multitude of reasons that combine to alter the climate on earth, What humans need to do is to stop being greedy put down their weapons and return to nature.
By the way it is in fact quite simple to incrementally reduce emissions if that is what is required, what is holding everyone up is th debt people are in who have hold on power and the reliance upon the keeping of power within the associations.
The greatest environmental problem is the treatment of women throughout the world the effect the human has on nature is ecological and a matter of philosophy in regards to capitalism we need to resolve some issues about debt and greed to resolve the issues about climate
As the climate changes the way we live so we must evolve to suit the cicumstances.
The interest on debt and greed is pollution.
Coopracy and Universal capitalism is 21st century stuff

Answer 5

Because there is not a complete lack of proof. Only a lack of a proof you will accept.

Answer 6

The proof is so overwhelming that just about every active climiatologist endorsed the latest report. When the Artic ice has melted from 7.8 million sq km down to 4.4 million in just 25 years why do you doubt it?

Answer 7

Denial is not a river.

Your bias is evidence but not as much as the tremendous quantity of evidence to support global warming.

Why don't you take it up with the literature and data instead of simply looking to discredit the evidence by pretending it doesn't exist.

I don't believe in global warming, I understand it and observe it occurring and I have been around over half a century, long enough to recognize it when I see it as well as educated enough to understand the tremendous amount of evidence gathered to support the thesis.

Answer 8

*sigh* Proof is a property exclusive to mathematics, not science. You don't prove scientific theories, so your entire question is a strawman argument.

Aside from that, there is a great deal of evidence that human activities are having an effect on the climate. Global warming is a very solid scientific theory based upon well understood physical laws with mountains of experimental and observational evidence supporting it.

Answer 9

There is no complete lack of evidence here. Any lacking evidence is not as incomplete as evidence the other way.

Answer 10

Global warming and its human causes are proven scientific facts--with an overwhelming body of evidence to back them up.

There are people who claim there's "no evidence." Saying that doesn't make it so--it only makes them liars.

Answer 11

Because you are wrong. The evidence is actually overwhelming in favor of the theory that man DOES have an effect on climate. The scientific world is overwhelmingly in agreement on this. The only detractors are paid by oil companies or are not even experts on the subject, but this small and biased group has a lot of money to spread around, and their hands are deep in the pockets of a lot of congressmen. Unfortunately, a lot more people are political than they are scientific or logical. That is why so many people such as yourself erroneously think this is debatable. It really isn't. But hey! Who cares? It's only your children and your children's children who might suffer from this.