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Why do global warming deniers....deny global warming?

I cant pick and choose who can answer this question, but i would prefer those who do believe that climate change is real and is caused by man made pollutants to answer, because if you DO deny climate change, I already have an idea of what you are about to say. But i cant stop you..so go ahead...if you must.

The real question is, anyone who is educated on the subject know that climate change has been around for a long time, we have seen the facts and the scientific data to support it. So with all this, why do some people still deny climate change? What is the driving factor behind this fingers in the ear behaviour.

Update:

This is really a sociological/psychological question. Its not really about global warming at all.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Basically those who can see the global warming con is a phony economic scam designed to make lazy unproductive liberals filthy rich with little to no need for physical work are politically moderates or Conservatives. All liberals seem to drift naturally to job positions where truth and accuracy is not required and some rather elaborate fictions produce higher profits than average. So while moderates and conservatives tend to go to productive jobs in science, engineering or manufacturing the average liberal tends to go into teaching, sales, religion or politics where physical effort is minimal and they can use pre written materials rather than off the cuff speaking more intelligent people do.

    Some scientific information revealing the truth about global warming, when it happened and what probably caused it. And as well how many years, centuries or millennia it might be before the world warms up again from the coming ice age.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:0Master_Past_200...

    http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/global_warming.h...

    http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data....

    http://reasonmclucus.tripod.com/CO2myth.html

    http://mc-computing.com/qs/Global_Warming/Atmosphe...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_variation

    Where the heat came from and why it was abnormally cold previously

    http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~dbunny/research/global/215....

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_minimum

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I think the wording of your question shows that you have bought into the psychology of the global warming believers.

    You ask "why do global warming deniers....deny global warming" assuming that us skeptics claim that there is no such thing as global warming. This is entirely wrong. We acknowledge that global warming is real, but was also acknowledge that global cooling is real. Both are part of a natural cycle that has been in operation on this planet for 4.5 Billion years. What we do deny is that there is man made (the fancy word is Anthropogenic) global warming.

    I would give you another way to look at this. Why do the believers try to shut down any discussion on the possibility that global warming is not caused by man?

    Source(s): I'm a geologist
  • 5 years ago

    If you want to acquire furnish cash for local weather study, do you feel that you'll be able to get a cheque when you say," I want the furnish, as I feel that I can turn out that the figures that the present paradigm is established upon are fallacious" ? The satisfactory environmentalist, David Bellamy, has been silenced, and refused airtime. There remains to be no verified causative hyperlink among the quantity of Co2 within the surroundings, and an develop in international temperatures. The WWWF images of the polar bears swimming had been taken within the Arctic summer time; while the ice cap in part melts, as they could not stand up to snapshot within the iciness. The ice used to be too thick! The East-Anglian uni study figures. "Oh! The figures do not fit our expectancies. Oh good. Keep quiet. Because we all know that we're correct." When the perception, and the religion is extra foremost than squarely dealing with the professional doubts of plenty of non furnish-supported scientists, technology has been superceded via devout zealots. As Oliver Cromwell colourfully mentioned." I pray thee, within the bowels of Christ, remember that thou mayest be fallacious."

  • 1 decade ago

    The truth is that global warming is a natural occurring thing that just happens through-out time, but it's not linked to pollution, that is just a money making thing, Scams these days are all over the place, this is the century of scams.

    Global warming is for real, but it's natural. There are plenty of scientists to back it up.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Climate change is inevitable, it obviously happens over years as far as global warming or cooling. Many credible climatologist that aren't attached to Al Gore in any way say we haven't seen it warming in 11 years. Its actually cooling. So global warming to me is fake which means man made global warming is definitely untrue. I think its a hokes to make more money and power through taxes and regulation.

  • 1 decade ago

    no one deny global warming and cooling its a natural cycle, the only thing is rational people could not stomach man made global warming/climate change hoax

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The climate changes all the time. Human beings aren't responsible for it, we can't change the climate and couldn't if we tried to.

    The earth has been warming for a long time (the seattle area, for example, used to be under two miles of ice.) -- warming is nice.

    Which area that's currently not covered with ice would you like to see covered with ice again?

    Me? Perhaps Copenhagen... it would be poetic justice.

    The biggest AGW advocates and "scientists" tell lies.

  • 1 decade ago

    The general public observes this raging debate going on and concludes that the science behind AGW is controversial. This debate is fueled by politics, ideological bias and economics. Within the community of scientists there is no debate over the basic science although research continues to solidify questions of detail. Questions over detail are perceived by the public to indicate a disproportionate uncertainty as to the validity in the totality of the science. Scientific uncertainty is inevitable, yet is pounced upon by deniers as proof of "bad science".

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Believe it or not but I have an open mind. I'm a classical mathematician and a scientist so my thought processes are driven by logic, facts and hard evidence.

    The difficulty I have is that I just don't see the irrefutable scientific evidence for AGW.

  • jerry
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    if man could control the climate then why can't he stop tornadoes or change the course of a hurricane,or stop the rain,or stop the next blizzard,we can't even get tomorrows weather forecast right

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