Climate Change. Why does the public not care about it?

[Ernie S.]

Unfortunately, climate change will continue whether people believe in it or not.

It will. The climate has changed throughout the several billion year history of the earth.
Only narcissist tree huggers think than man has played any significant part.

 

[martybegan]

There's actually quite a lot we can all do about it.

First, we all know that the worldwide livestock industry is the single biggest cause of climate change.

Then, there recycling, reducing and reusing along with driving a high mileage car.

But, make no mistake, you could drive a hummer and have less impact than eating meat.

How is livestock the largest cause of climate change when each animal is effectively a carbon sink, and the net production of CO2 from each one is zero considering their carbon is based on plant ingestion?

 

[hadit]

New York (CNN) -- You could be forgiven for thinking no one cares -- or even should care, right now -- about climate change.

For starters, there's all that other terrifying stuff competing for attention: President Barack Obama's war with ISIS; the Ebola outbreak, which recently put Sierra Leone on national lockdown; Ukraine; Scotland; wife-beating athletes. That scary guy in Pennsylvania.

The world seems like a pretty big mess right now.

The climate? Not top of the agenda.

Polls indicate Americans care less about climate change than pretty much anything. Even among those of us who are inclined to care about the planet, there's the holy-crap-I-can't-even-deal-with-it factor. It seems too big, too daunting -- and like so much damage is already being done.


No one cares about climate change Opinion - CNN.com


What gives?

Everybody knows about it............but nobody is caring!! With all the debate in her about the "science", seems to me that debate has been going on for decades and the public is still "meh" about it.

So????

1. No one but the insane denies the climate changes. It does change, and has changed for a very long time.
2. What is REALLY in dispute here is AGW. Be honest and say "man-caused global warming". By refusing to acknowledge what you are really talking about, you bring about the exact lack of concern you lament, because you're using vague, nebulous terms that don't really mean a whole lot.
2. I have yet to see a substantive estimate of just how much global cooling we can actually accomplish if we:
- force Americans to ride bicycles to work.
- force Americans to become vegetarians.

All I ever see is feel-good malarkey. Let's be like Algore and whine about carbon footprints while riding around in a private jet and taking gas guzzlers to events. Then we can go back to massive McMansions that use as much electricity than your average Wal-Mart.

 

[hadit]

There's actually quite a lot we can all do about it.

First, we all know that the worldwide livestock industry is the single biggest cause of climate change.

Then, there recycling, reducing and reusing along with driving a high mileage car.

But, make no mistake, you could drive a hummer and have less impact than eating meat.

How is livestock the largest cause of climate change when each animal is effectively a carbon sink, and the net production of CO2 from each one is zero considering their carbon is based on plant ingestion?

The solution is obvious. We must immediately slaughter every form of life that farts. I wonder how long your average bean eating vegetarian can hold it?

 

[Ernie S.]

The Earth receives 174,000 terawatts (TW) of incoming solar radiation (insolation) at the upper atmosphere. 30% of that is reflected back by clouds.
Heat gain from insolation = 121,800 TW.
Heat gain from all green house gases= 2.5 W/m2
Earth's surface area = 510.1 million km² = 1.275 TW
Of course, there are some anti GHG's that we conveniently forget about leaving us with about 1.6 W/sq meter or .82 TW
.0006% of heat added to earth is attributable to greenhouse gases.

 

[skookerasbil]

The climate crusaders cant accept it..............obviously...........but the fact remains that it is clear nobody is embracing the view of climate change embraced by the alarmist contingent. Which means........the science isn't mattering. Not one climate k00k can post up a single link showing otherwise.

 

[Wyatt earp]

Unfortunately, climate change will continue whether people believe in it or not.

..... Or here or not

 

[Skull Pilot]

People don't care because most of them realize that a 2 degree temperature rise won't really affect them at all

 

[Old Rocks]

The Earth receives 174,000 terawatts (TW) of incoming solar radiation (insolation) at the upper atmosphere. 30% of that is reflected back by clouds.
Heat gain from insolation = 121,800 TW.
Heat gain from all green house gases= 2.5 W/m2
Earth's surface area = 510.1 million km² = 1.275 TW
Of course, there are some anti GHG's that we conveniently forget about leaving us with about 1.6 W/sq meter or .82 TW
.0006% of heat added to earth is attributable to greenhouse gases.

Source, link? Otherwise just to be regarded as numbers pulled out of your ass.

 

[skookerasbil]

People don't care because most of them realize that a 2 degree temperature rise won't really affect them at all

And its not even close to that over the last 20 years or so. Of course, the alarmist models.....which are always wrong......go full bore stoopid at the far end of the model possibilities

 

[prison/con.net]

it's the third world, including China and India that would have to fix it. Stop having kids, stop burning wood and coal, and they're not going to do that. So the problem will grow. Why should WE take the hit for what THEY are doing, hmm?

 

[prison/con.net]

it's the third world, including China and India that would have to fix it. Stop having kids, stop burning wood and coal, and they're not going to do that. So the problem will grow. Why should WE take the hit for what THEY are doing, hmm?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

There's actually quite a lot we can all do about it.

First, we all know that the worldwide livestock industry is the single biggest cause of climate change.

Then, there recycling, reducing and reusing along with driving a high mileage car.

But, make no mistake, you could drive a hummer and have less impact than eating meat.

Cows cause climate change?

 

[Ernie S.]

The Earth receives 174,000 terawatts (TW) of incoming solar radiation (insolation) at the upper atmosphere. 30% of that is reflected back by clouds.
Heat gain from insolation = 121,800 TW.
Heat gain from all green house gases= 2.5 W/m2
Earth's surface area = 510.1 million km² = 1.275 TW
Of course, there are some anti GHG's that we conveniently forget about leaving us with about 1.6 W/sq meter or .82 TW
.0006% of heat added to earth is attributable to greenhouse gases.

Source, link? Otherwise just to be regarded as numbers pulled out of your ass.

I did my research and pulled numbers from various sites. You may even be capable of the same.

I'll give you a head start:
Solar energy - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia