> Why do so many people refuse to believe that global warming/climate change is happening?

Why do so many people refuse to believe that global warming/climate change is happening?

Posted at: 2015-03-12 
r @ least downplay it.

For a few reasons:

- in the case of industrialists, this antagonises them, thus they tune it out

- some people believe it is merely a warm period it the current ice age(we are technically still in an ice age).

- some say that it is anomalous data

- some claim it is lies.

In my opinion any opinion on each side is irrevelant, we need to do something regardless of whether it effects the environment or not as it can make a fairer world if western nations become more self reliant allowing 2nd and 3rd world peoples to improve their quality of life.

Because we know a scam when we see one. The theory is backed up by lies and half truths. A lot of scientists don't think it is true.

Quote by Will Harper, Princeton University physicist, former Director of Energy Research at the Department of Energy: “I had the privilege of being fired by Al Gore, since I refused to go along with his alarmism....I have spent a long research career studying physics that is closely related to the greenhouse effect....Fears about man-made global warming are unwarranted and are not based on good science. The earth's climate is changing now, as it always has. There is no evidence that the changes differ in any qualitative way from those of the past.”

Quote by Nobel Prize Winner For Chemistry, Kary Mullis: “Global warmers predict that global warming is coming, and our emissions are to blame. They do that to keep us worried about our role in the whole thing. If we aren't worried and guilty, we might not pay their salaries. It's that simple.

Quote by Tom McElmurry, meteorologist, former tornado forecaster in Severe Weather Service: “Governmental officials are currently casting trillions down huge rat hole to solve a problem which doesn’t exist....Packs of rats wait in that [rat] hole to reap trillions coming down it to fill advocates pockets....The money we are about to spend on drastically reducing carbon dioxide will line the pockets of the environmentalists....some politicians are standing in line to fill their pockets with kick back money for large grants to the environmental experts....In case you haven’t noticed, it is an expanding profit-making industry, growing in proportion to the horror warnings by government officials and former vice-presidents.”

Now let us look at what some proponents of AGW say.

Quote by Christine Stewart, former Canadian Environment Minister: “No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits.... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.”

Quote by Timoth Wirth, U.S./UN functionary, former elected Democrat Senator: “We’ve got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.”

So they admit that the science is phoney and that it is only a method of controlling people.

So you see, we know a scam when we see one.

Because how do you know if the "warming" isn't part of a natural cycle that is too long to have been fully recorded yet let alone even understood by mankind?

Worrying about Global Warming is just borrowing trouble from the future when we have enough in the present to worry about.

they gulp down Konservative Kool-Aid

there's a chapter about it in this book;The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science- and Reality

Erm possibly because it isn't happening. Unless I've seriously missed some news bulletins it isn't actually happening anywhere in the world.

or @ least downplay it.