Why won't people Take Action against Global Warming?

There are lots of things being done to reduce pollution, CO2 emissions, end deforestation, and preserve wildlife. However, the mainstream media mostly alarms with the negative, because they are for the most part aligned with the political ideology of man made global warming.

I have been studying this subject for a very long time, have read hundreds of articles and reports on both sides of the issue, and have read many serious books on the subject. However, the more I read the more I am convinced that man made global warming is a political ideology, based on junk science. Some degree of global warming may be real, however, it’s becoming clearer and clearer that it’s not caused by humans.

This is an old story with a different twist: in the 70s the ideological environmentalists were predicting “global cooling”, not warning. Seeing that it did not materialized, they changed the pitch to alarm the public about man made global warming.

Remember, the earth has warmed and cooled through the centuries, without human cause or prevention. What is mostly disputed is that humans are the main cause of the present “warming trend”. They ar not, and the science more and more is on the side of the skeptics about man made global warming.

Greenhouse gas concentrations will continue to increase despite CO2 cuts in developed countries. The reason: Fast-growing countries that do not have to reduce emissions under the Kyoto Protocol—such as China, India, South Korea, Brazil and Indonesia—will account for as much as 85 percent of the projected increase in the next two decades.

WHAT SHOULD BE DONE: ADAPTATION IS THE NAME OF THE GAME

Will Cutting CO2 Emissions Reduce the harms to which warming contributes?

The most reasonable thing to do is Focused Adaptation. Focus Adaptation means taking steps now to adapt to warmer conditions such as:

1) Using pesticides to kill malaria-bearing mosquitoes,

2) Improving farming practices and

3) Ending subsidies to coastal development.

These measures could virtually eliminate the threat of coastal flooding and cut in half the number of people projected to be at risk from malaria and hunger.

Adapting to climate change would be better than trying to prevent it. At a cost of less than $10 billion annually, focused adaptation is relatively cheap, compared to trying to stabilize CO2, which would cost trillions of dollars per year.

Finally, the following should also be taken into account:

1) In just 30 years, people in the United States have reduced the energy required to produce one unit of gross domestic product by almost half.

2) Though th world’s population has quadrupled in the past century, the number of food calories available per person has actually increased.

3) Americans grow corn in climates from Alabama to North Dakota.

4) Clever people will develop cheaper ways to create energy with less carbon. Wealthy countries can afford to search for these new sources of energy. One should hope that governments would encourage research into new technologies that, when proven, will will be naturally adopted by the marketplace.

5) Limiting carbon-based energy production to levels adopted in the Kyoto Protocol will make an imperceptible difference in global temperatures and an undetectable difference in weather. If achieved, it would reduce the standard of living for millions-and by extension, billions-of people. The poorest are the most vulnerable to such edicts by proponents of such efforts at centralized planning.

No candidate can change the climate . The only way to make a slight difference in pollution in the world would be if India and China were to cease all plans for new development. The U.S. actually pollutes very little because of our high emission standards . Mexico puts out nearly as much pollution as the U.S. with a smaller population and less GNP . If you are concerned about carbon dioxide , the levels have increased from 280 ppm - 318 ppm during the past 200 years , but more than half of it happened after the industrial revolution and the effect actual doesn't have any relation with the earth's temperature and it actually makes a greener environment because plant life thrive on carbon dioxide . Its not American warming , it's Global .

There's nothing to take action on. Global Warming and Global Cooling has been going on for centuries without any influence from humans. If you look at the real statistics on Big Bad CO2 you will find that humans only account for 5% or less of all the emmisions in the world. All the great answers on what we MUST do to stop it are just feel good bandaids to make people feel like they are making a difference and are repairing the damage we did to the earth that we really didn't do. The same people screaming Global Warming were screaming Global Cooling just 20 short years ago.

Because there's nothing we can do about it. Take a look at the climatological history of the world...we go through warming and cooling periods on a fairly consistent basis. We're entering a warming period right now...probably followed by another ice age in another couple million years. This is not a new phenomenon.

Also, note that the rest of the planets in our solar system are having the same warming phenomenon. And somehow I doubt it's all of those martians and venutians tooling around in SUV's and private jets causing the problem. Gee, I wonder what Earth could have in common with Venus and Mars and the other planets in our solar system. SOLAR system. *SOLAR* system.

The answers here to your question says a lot about why doesn't it?

So many misinformed people. Many of them has probably got their information from the same people who actually has denied that smoking is causing lung cancer. Like Steven J Milloy and his Junkscience http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Junksci...

or Tim Ball who also claims that CFC's were never a problem: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tim_Bal...

dude, a lot of people are just too lazy. especially the smokers and the prep girls. it is all about cigarettes and hair spray.

people dont care that if they just cut back a LITTLE each, it could make a major difference. and another thing is the recycling deal. but that is a whole other story all together.

but i like seeing people starting to take action on the issue now. i think that it is fantastic! lol

Earths temperature has risen .5 degrees from man made causes according to predictions from the amount of actual blocked IR radiation. That is assuming that it wasn't naturally compensated for by other mechanisms. Because water is vastly more important as a greenhouse gas, it likely has compensation mechanism to "buffer" the effect. All the rest is natural. It is not a serious problem. You are believing chicken little name Al Gore and scientists that want to get billions of dollars and require a crisis to do it. Those of us mature enough to have seen this several times get more than tired of the lies. Al Gore doesn't even make little lies. I guess he believes Joseph Gerbils that they will believe a bigger lie.

because some very smart people will look at the evidence and realize that there has been climate change forever, most of which happened when man did not exist. it will happen with or with out us, to think that we could or should stop it is pure stupidity.

Power and money dude, the oil company has so much money and power that they can control people to use their products. There was a hydro car but the oil company destroyed it, then there is a hybrid which isnt fully electric.

We just dont want to admit that we are harming the environment.