Why don't Americans believe in global warming? (barf alert!)

The Economist ^ | Feb 8th 2011 | E.G. AUSTIN

[MrB]

If Al Gore really believe AGW was real,
he would change his own lifestyle.

[End Times Sentinel]

Unlike many Europeans, Americans realize how little we can do to control the environment and don't think of themselves as omnipotent Gods (unless they're from Hollywood).

I don't even know if the Euros believe in it. I'm pretty sure the Brits know it's a hoax. China and India don't give a damn about it. Doubt the Ruskies do either. I doubt most of South America has heard of it, and Africans are too busy killing each other to care about this fantasy.

So, aside from us, exactly WHO really does care or believe in this myth?

[chesley]

Reason 1: The science is not there.

Reason 2: Even if the science were there, the proposed solutions are already acknowledged to be insufficient. (Relative to the supposed severity of the situation.)

Reason 3: Because all the evidence suggests that “global cooling”, “global warmint”, “climate change” is just a big scam to control the world by faceless beaureaucrats and other parasite socialists.

Reason 4: Because the consensus seems to be that nobody can afford to pay for it but the good ole US of A.

[Vigilanteman]

We've come full circle on this crap. I was a high school freshman back during the first earth day. They told ua a new ice age was coming due to the "greenshouse effect". That is, all the carbon and dust particles generated by human activity would block the sun's rays from fully warming up the earth and so we would cool into a new ice age. For awhile, it seemed like the might even be right (albeit overhyped) because winters did seem to be getting harsher.

But life went on and the earth begin to warm up. By the early 1990's it had warmed up to the extent that global warming became fashionable. Now, it is no longer fashionable to speak of global warming, but climate change. In general, things were better when the summers were longer and the winters were shorter. We need to start whining about the new ice age again.

[tflabo]

We shivered our Tx butts off this winter. Wished we had that global warming—we demand our rights to be warm in the global warmed winters, ehehehe.

[alarm rider]

I assume that the writer is British.
If so, a statement like this:

“Again, in keeping with the perception that a lot of Americans are religious whackos..” is interesting.

So, I would counter that the English are lost due to the fact that so many are morally bankrupt, devoid of basic Western religious ethics and just plain engaged in silliness.

[tflabo]

One may choose their ideologies but not the realities.

[Gopher Broke]

Uh, how about because it is a big Hoax?

[NRA1995]

I have yet to boil water on my stove and have the vapors start a snowstorm coming out of my range hood.

[MrB]

Usually, when one is debating worldviews vs reality,
each worldview can actually look at the same evidence and draw different conclusions based on the presuppositions inherent in their worldview.

We’ve seen this happen with AGW as well, even though there really isn’t any way that man’s CO2 contribution CAN be causing climate change.
They look at the evidence - cold weather, hot weather, wet weather, dry weather, extreme weather, mild weather - and see “climate change”. We look at it and say “weather”.

[Paladin2]

Maybe if the author went to Church more often, he’d find a better religion.

[Obadiah]

This Edition of Globull Warming is Brought To You By:

The Flat Earth Society, and

The Sun Revolves Around the Earth True Believers

[swain_forkbeard]

Why did you include Leprechauns on that list? What are you saying?

[RinaseaofDs]

They don’t ‘believe in’ global warming for the same reason we don’t believe in the Easter Bunny. Neither exist.

Matters of science don’t require ‘belief’. They require proof, and better yet, some sort of experimentation that can be repeated and verified by peers.

[MortMan]

Because we are scientifically literate?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Global “warming” before glo-bull warming became “man made”.

NYC heat waves. (Was 2011 really that bad?)

1879.
1882
1883 many children dead.
1895
1896 1500 adults dead
1900
1936
1937
1972.

Was Oklahoma hotest ever last year?

August 1936, 115 degrees and no air conditioning!
April 12 1972, 102 degrees

http://www.weather.com/outlook/health/fitness/wxclimatology/daily/USOK0537?climoMonth=8

[Notary Sojac]

I'm in favor of "renewable energy" to the extent that it competes fairly on price with all other energy sources.

That means no corporate welfare for wind/solar/geothermal, and no corporate welfare for oil/coal/nuclear either.

[vpintheak]

I like to think that a lot of us aren’t mindless sheep silently obeying what our government overlords tell us.
We are so doggone hard to rule!

[2ndDivisionVet]

Withdrawn...

[mvpel]

Metaphysical: God isn't going to let millions of people die in an epic drought.

Like those in Australia.