Why are you a denier of global climate change?

Question

Is accelerated melting of sea ice not a sign?

Can industrious mankind have no affect on our climate? Where does all that smoke and fumes go to?

Or is it that the thought of our planet being ruined so terrible it is easier to just not believe it is happening?

Answer 1

No one can logically deny that the planet is warming up. However, it has been proven that most of the warming occurred before WW2. So is the warming man made? One could logically deny that it is a man made issue as easily as the other way around. Too many lies and exaggerations have been made by both sides. The manner in which some people try to get their point made often just simply rubs people the wrong way. Most of you (myself included) do not go into attack mode with the people close to us to make our point. On this site it happens more often than not. Some seem to forget that if you want to be heard, you first must listen.

Answer 2

I am not a denier. Global warming is real. Just as it has been real in the past history of the planet. The so called crisis, or that mankind is causing it, or can alter it, is the part I call BS.

Answer 3

I am not, and I often see those who do deny it have ulterior motives or reasons for wishing it not so, or even simply want to be on tv so they deny it for that reason, and there are those unable or unwilling to think for themselves so they repeat what they hear.
The Michigan elected official who condemned California's governor for wanting stricter regulations on car mileage did not want people to believe that and buy less cars and trucks because of the effect on the Michigan economy so he simply denies global warming, for one example.
Anyone who really wanted to objectively consider this would go online to sites like the Union of Concerned Scientists - scientists from around the world coming together to consider the problem - and read the information available before deciding whether it is real or not, istead of repeating what they hear or taking the word of someone without considering their credibility or what "ax to grind" so to speak the person has.

Answer 4

oh well, the same reason we deny the Holocaust I guess.

Grow up.

Accelerated melting of sea ice is a sign that the climate is currently getting hotter. This is occuring in the Arctic.
In the Antarctic, where the majority of 'sea ice' is to be found, the amount of ice is increasing.

Answer 5

I don't doubt the climate is changing.It changes all the time. There isn't anything I or mankind can do about it. It makes as much sense to think I can as it does to think I can change the tides of the oceans. Rather than fret about the things you can't change why not use your energy to come up with ways the change in climate can be use to benefit mankind.

Answer 6

I'm not a denier myslef but, with all due respect to the skeptics, a lot of them don't understand the climate and aren't really aware of what's happening. As a result there are some weired and wonderful reasons put forward in an attempt to refute the anthropogenic component of global warming.

At the end of the day, there's barely a scientist on the planet that doesn't concede humans are impacting on the climate. This is where the expertice and knowledge lies; not amongst some people who have read a few snippets on websites and in the media.

Some skeptics are very intelligent, educated people but in commenting on climate change they're entering into a debate about which they have little knowledge. They might not like the idea of climate change but that doesn't make it go away.

Answer 7

It is a natural casue so I do not deny the temeratuer rising but the casue that people say is making the temperature rise. In reality it is a natural cycle.

Answer 8

Weather patterns throughout histrory have changed, why do we have to name it.....It's just part of the evolution of the planet. Just accept it and look foward to what will be new.