How horrible is it that I don't care about global warming?

There is overwhelming evidence against it. The earth has been cooling for 16 years while the CO2 level has increased. To anyone with an ounce of intelligence that says it all.

But we all have to listen to these environmental eggheads.

Quote by Chris Folland of UK Meteorological Office: “The data don't matter. We're not basing our recommendations [for reductions in carbon dioxide emissions] upon the data. We're basing them upon the climate models.”

Those who believe in global warming don't really care about data and facts. They just love being scared by some undefined bogey-man.

It's not horrible. Everybody has to pick and choose the issues that they care about. However, you have a serious contradiction in your follow up comments. You admit that you cannot understand the 'figures and quotes' and essentially say that the reason you don't care is because you don't see evidence you can see and touch. A little education might help a lot in terms of. Seriously. Deciding whether global warming is an issue that is important to you.

Your question would make one wonder if you have the symptoms of a sociopath. I doubt that this true sense I do not think a true sociopath would care enough to even ask the question.

Since you actually seem to care enough to even ask the question, perhaps the best answers you will ever receive will come from your children, your grandchildren and their children. Those are the ones that can give you the answers you should be more concerned about.

Pat******

This one is for you and for anyone that would think(?) along your same train of thought.

"Why is it that we think we can micro-manage a planet that is billions of times bigger than we are and is also 4.5 billion years old based on evidence from the past 30 to 40 years?"

Most likely the reason anyone would think along these lines is simply a matter of perspective. You stand at one point on the planet's surface, you look around for as far as you can see and you say, "I see no evidence that we can effect the climate! This is all too big for us to impact!". Is it? The entire planet is enormous in comparison to all of human life today, but the atmosphere is much smaller, as a whole of the planet. Step off your solitary perch and take a different perspective.

http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/newsletter/html_Mir/atmosp...

and

http://www.startribune.com/local/blogs/130292023.h...

and

http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/3481-siberian-wild...

and

http://pinterest.com/pin/455708056014189486/

What do you think now, when you use a different perspective?

"not just lists of figiures and quotes I can't understand" gee I think you will find that's called science

That same science uses figiures although they usually spell it figures, to show the effects of gravity, perhaps all these people who jump off building and bridges are not committing suicide but are in fact testing gravity because they can't touch or feel it, although they presumably feel something briefly as they hit the ground.

How odd that a denier want to dismiss the science, in preference for what the denier usual of blogs

Those "figiures" you claim you can't understand show in, pretty simple terms what is happening

to Co2 levels, global temperature, Arctic sea ice, glacial ice and sea level

http://climate.nasa.gov/keyIndicators/index.cfm#se...

Reading and understand such simple graphs is something even a first year high school student can do. perhaps you could ask this again in 3-4 years when you reach that level.

In the mean time here are some pretty pictures for you to pretend you don't understand either.

http://www.usgs.gov/climate_landuse/glaciers/repea...

The small island nation of kiribati has to relocate to fiji due to rising waters. Also the storms that have battered the east coast the past 2 years. Yeah, those types of storms only come around here every 50 years, well er they used to. It's gonna get bad man. It's predicted that by 2050 there will be 150 million environmental refugees.

Global warming may or may not exist but we(humans) ARE killing the Earth. We make sooooooo much pollution and dispose of soooo much waste and kill other animals and all of the agriculture is changing the landscape. The ice-caps are melting and if just 1 chuck of the polar ice caps melt then every single city near the ocean will be underwater. Hawaii, New York, San Fransisco, Japan, UK, all of it!!

Yours is the only logical reaction one can have to something they cant personally notice & couldn't affect if they did.

So I wouldn't waste any time feeling guilty about it.

Sounds like you have a well balanced mind & a healthy attitude which indicates to me that you don't spend much time on this site.

Personally, I'm not real fond of gravity & actually intensely dislike entropy but i seldom waste a minute of my day thinking about it.

I think it's horrible that you say you don't care - and then ask for evidence.

When the final effects of Global Warming are felt this debate will be a mute point.

So revel in your abandon.Ignorance is bliss.

Agreed!

Why is it that we think we can micro-manage a planet that is billions of times bigger than we are and is also 4.5 billion years old based on evidence from the past 30 to 40 years? Temperature data is always in question. To think that we have adequately and precisely documented global temperatures from the past 4.5 billion years is what seems to be driving the movement thinking we have so much control over our climate. Hard to argue with someone who knows they are right about this subject when there is so much compelling evidence that shows there is no conclusive evidence to support their claim.

Gringo points this out very clearly when he says that we should leave it to "real climate scientists" (he has since changed his statement but he forgets that he did say it - it's fun catching these people when they change the facts). Scrutinizing someone's climate science work should totally be done by climate scientists alone and forget about what anyone else's information says. This is total arrogance!

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ag%E2%80%A6

I re-iterate my analogy of people like Gringo who think they are above scrutiny : "It's like talking to a monkey who just got pooped on by an elephant and thinks a cork is going to solve the problem!"

Let's also understand that real climate scientists are generally funded by Government entities and donations. There's no profit in just doing research. Even with corporate entities it is still an expense in doing business.

Kiribati? They are still there. How did you get a vote of "thumbs up" for that?