See the issue is that most people don't deny it just a small percentage of people
deny global warming for some reason.
I know there is a section of the population that will
deny global warming exists right up until the point when coastal cities are underwater.
Although a handful of reputable scientists do
deny global warming as well as its concomitant sea - level rise, their arguments continue to be discredited.
We stood out — we wore tin foil hats to highlight the insanity
of denying global warming, as some members of Congress continue to do here in 2013.
Its kind of comical that many of the people that
deny global warming want to give god credit for changing weather patterns...
You
likely deny global warming for no other reason than it makes you uncomfortable and hold science to the impossibly high standard of having to explain every conceivable mystery about the natural World before you will accept it, but some moron rolling around a floor speaking in tongues is enough to convince you he is channeling a spirit.
That said, in general - in the United States, at least - the issue isn't so much
about denying global warming as much as it is about protecting and favoring the major fossil fuel industries:
I just want to highlight this illuminating infographic by James Powell in which, based on more than 2000 peer - reviewed publications, he counts the number of authors from November, 2012 to December, 2013 who
explicitly deny global warming (that is, who propose a fundamentally different reason for temperature rise than anthropogenic CO2).
In the face of this overwhelming evidence, is
denying global warming really that different from believing that the government is hiding aliens in Area 51?
He used to send me lots of links to
articles denying global warming, but I countered every single one of them with as much factual science as I could find.
That's what two members of Lord Lawson's climate change
science denying Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) did when they bet Chris Hope, a Cambridge University researcher, that 2015 wouldn't be the hottest year ever recorded.
IPCC on the hotseat... IPCC
Chairman Denies Global Warming Slowdown Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the UN's climate panel, dismissed suggestions of a slowdown in global warming.
Naturally there are people who will
deny global warming until the day they die, just as some will deny that the Earth is over 6,011 years old, or that intelligence doesn't depend on race, and so on (many of these groups overlap).
The reason I believe that Romney
now denies global warming (after he acknowledged it) is because that's what he feels he has to do to activate the Republican base.
And when reporters have directly asked White House press secretaries whether
Trump denies global warming is real, they have skirted the question.
Although very few scientists
still deny global warming is upon us, no one yet knows how much of it — if any of it — could be due to a recurring natural temperature cycle.
Patrick Michaels and Chip Knappenberger found 100 papers by looking for papers with keywords «slowdown», «global», «temperature», etc. and found all of the 100
papers denying global warming.
I'm sure many people
who deny global warming and / or its effects and immediacy honestly believe what they're saying is true, but for some of the others that honesty is difficult to grant.