Are the words 'climate change' becoming as ineffective as the warning on a packet of cigarettes?

Question

When warnings about smoking were printed on packs of cigarettes they started off with 'smoking can seriously damage your health' and ended up after some years stating 'smoking can kill!' The problem is that familiarity breeds contempt and the smoking warnings became part of the packet. Climate Change is going down the same route - every day we are being indoctrinised with 'climate change, climate change, climate change' and to be frank it is losing its impact.

I'm not making a point - just putting forward a subject for discussion - isn't that allowed here? The 'Millennium Bug' in computing does spring to mind as a non event though!

Answer 1

Some people are determined to kill themselves no matter much you tell them that smoking and climate change are bad for them. Letting the stupid smoke themselves to death is part of natural selection. Unfortunately when it comes to climate change they're going to kill us all.

Answer 2

Global climate is a dynamic process, so it is always in a state of change, with or without man. So it is not a problem to be fixed, but a change to be adapted to.
It is only the global warming alarmists that believe that we have a naturally static climate, therefore if it is changing, it must the fault of humans.
Of course the science of climate change is rock solid, as someone above posted, but the science of the human activity cause is weak and contradictory, and gets weaker almost daily, except you won't see dramatic news reports about it.
Imagine a photo in the papers of a flat uniform snow field with the headline ' the snow in Antarctica increased by 3 mm last year' -It's not going to happen

I am a biologist and was in Antarctica 4 years ago. The scientists there told me that the continent was getting colder and the ice was increasing, only the Antarctic peninsular is losing ice because of erosion from sea currents, but the media regularly broadcast dramatic stories about how the ice is melting and we're all going to drown.
The cooling of Antarctica has been published in professional journals and reported in the specialist scientific press, but it is not 'sexy ' enough for the mainstream media to bother with

Answer 3

I ve just read what 'old know all ' said and i must point out that people smoke for all reasons and though you may not seem to know it they are not all stupid, my wife and i smoke but we are going to a class in January to try and stop, this will be our second time by class and about 8 times trying from home, when we stop there are arguements, over-eating and depression, are we stupid to try? The climate change has nothing to do with smokers and if you have a car i suggest you get rid of it, use a bike like i do and try going green, instead of making out You know it all'. Happy xmas and hope you use your head.

Answer 4

Yes. Climate change has become a convenient cliche, just another subject for dinner party chatter. It is a real
phenomenon though and people wringing their hands and forever talking about it is simply not enough; there is climate change all over the world leading to droughts, floods and
the complete obliteration of farming in some countries. Politicians and Companies have to lead us forward, but there is much we can all do: above all fly less; walk or cycle whenever possible - you'll be healthier too, re-cycle, don't waste power, buy organic food. If you live in a sunny climate install solar panels on your roof etc etc.

Answer 5

Maybe for some, because they probably haven't done a thing to be part of the solution. And years from now when the corrections have been made and it's not a crisis any more they'll claim it never was a problem like so many environmental issue in the past.

I see stuff posted here far to often claiming it was a hoax, like acid rain and the o-zone hole. Steps were taken, the solutions worked and we've moved on and won't make the same mistakes.

Fewer people in the USA smoke cigarettes, right? In many public places you can't even light up, so what's your point?

Short of demonstrating that there will always be a few bone heads out there that refuse to accept solid information and change there ways no matter what.

Answer 6

There is a problem with the climate but not as cronic as they make out I think but there are ways we can help with very little change so why not dispose of paper, cardboard, kitchen waste, batteries seperatly and responsibly. You may not think you are doing much but tell a friend or two and they tell a friend or two and the impact soon becomes quite large.

Answer 7

I agree...you get the impression that's its fashionable at the moment and although the scientists are worried the lunatic fringe are diluting the arguments and by the time the LR have found something else to grow long grey hair and wear sandals over ...the damage will be done.

Answer 8

I see your point however, climate change has been happening for centuries, it is nothing new. Scientists differ so much on how much of it is from the natural movement of the planet to how much is caused by pollution.
People are very simple, if they don't understand it they'll ignore it, if it doesn't effect them they'll ignore it. People these days live in their little bubble world and sometimes overlook the world around them.

Answer 9

The climate changes every day . Now is more dramatic then your use to ? We humans seem to believe that if we did not experience it then its a crisis and its all our fault ,hogwash.
If you are living during a time when the change is more dramatic then in the past Its part of the living earth .

Answer 10

No, even though you have a point.

Ordinary people are concluding that this is real, as noticeable changes start to happen, and the science becomes rock solid.

By the way, the Milennium Bug was very real, too. It took years, thousands of programmers, and billions of dollars to fix the computer programs.

The only problem was they weren't confident enough that they HAD fixed it, on December 31.

Answer 11

probable no longer. yet thats no longer the question to be asking. The question to ask is what number young babies desperate to no longer %. it up for the 1st time after seeing those warnings?? people who're already human beings who smoke are unlikely to stop till they hit the all-time low of their habit. For some human beings its whilst the fees get to intense. For human beings it comes with a scientific diagnosis led to by ability of their smoking. For others its something else. i think of all of us is conscious that warnings on the %. arent going to make people who already smoke stop. i think of the element replaced into to objective to discover a thank you to maintain our young ones from picking it up interior the 1st place.