Why do some people deny that climate change is happening?

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Allen

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The argument is whether it's caused by human activity isn't it?

But still, I see people saying 'climate change is a load of rubbish and isn't happening'.

If the climate isn't changing why is the weather different, and why are glaciers and the ice caps melting?

Does this prove that some people just don't care, and are sticking their heads in the sand?

No doubt this question will be misread, and wrongly answered.
 
Climate change is difficult to measure because it is difficult to know what span of time to measure over. During the seventies there apparently was a theory that we were in a global cooling period, and the data backed it up. The more important question about climate change is whether humanity is contributing to it or not, and on THAT point science truly is divided.
 
I don't think you will find anyone who doesn't agree that the climate continually changes; it is only the liberals who have changed this notion to this change that it is entirely caused by Man's activities. It is not.

As per the release of the emails out of the Hadley CRU the other day, this notion becomes more clear of corruption and deception by these people to deceive for personal gain.

The earth's biosphere is a complicated machine and yes it does change constantly.
 
I will try to explain my view as well as I can:

Many people say that climate change isn't happening, and there is proof that it isn't.
The ice caps may be melting, but around the 10th century the Chinese navigated around Iceland. You can't do that anymore. Why? Too much ice.

Many people simply deny it because of the reasons why the government promote awareness. It links in all too well with a number of schemes that can be used to make more money. "Pay (instert amount here) and you can go greener!" "We will tax more on oil so that people are less inclined to use their cars so that our carbon footprints are reduced!".

If the government really cared, they would ration the amount of energy we could use. Or better yet, scrap petrol completely and use water in cars. The technology to convert water back into hydrogen and oxygen is out there, but is locked away because nobody has thought up a way to charge people for water!

Now. You may dismiss this just as others dismiss climate change, but I do hope you pay attention to what I'm about to say. We contribute, despite what people say, about 5 years of time. Climate change is a natural process that happens every few million years. We have sped it up... by about 5 years. Why does it happen? I can not explain that. You will have to reasearch it for yourself, as I am doing. Some people say it is because of the Earth's polarity reversal.

Also, you need to know that people arn't clear on what climate change is. People say the Earth is warming, yet there was more snow in England just last year in May than there was 40 years ago in December.

I have done my best to keep a neutral view, although as a lot of the evidence points one way, I might have drifted in that direction too. I do hope you read over this and actually consider looking some of it up, thus expanding your knowledge on the most disputed subject this century.
 
People get lied to by politicians every day, so when politic ans tell people of an imminent disaster they tend to be sceptical. Most people as you say disagree with the fact that its man made as opposed to just not happening at all.
 
Nobody denies climate change, it is a part of the planets natural climate cycle driven almost exclusively by solar activity.
What some people do deny, is man's part in global warming, and rightly so. Co2 in the atmosphere is about 3%, and man made Co2 about 3% of that. That coupled with the fact that the planet hasn't warmed for 10yrs while Co2 levels continue to rise just about puts the nail in the coffin of AGW as far as we're concerned.
 
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