Why do so many people believe in catastrophic global warming? 15 Articles

by J.M. Schell

Global Warming/Climate Change is Belief, but also Politics It's really quite simple: so many "believe" in anthropogenic global warming/climate change (AGW) because they have been carefully led by the triumvirate force o...read more

by Suzy Charnas

"Most people", meaning most articulate people with access to some form of public forum (since we don't know about the opinions of those not in that category), see the evidence of their own experience, such as typhoons and ...read more

by Ian Loft

I used to openly declare my belief that the world is undergoing an increase in average temperatures, i.e.; global warming, however my argument was the cause being carbon emissions was not proven at best, a complete hoax at...read more

by Linda Sunkle-Pierucki

The reason so many people believe in catastrophic global warming is because propaganda, carefully contrived and supported by enough powerful people, works! False information is endlessly repeated without grounding facts. V...read more

by Pat Lunsford

Earth is always going through periods of cooling followed by periods of warming, which is a natural occurrence associated with any fluid-covered planet. However, scientists cannot explain the tremendous loss of ice and man...read more

by Julian Braggins

Why do so many people believe in catastrophic global warming? The key word is in the title, Believe. A belief is something held to be true with or without proof. We are now in the situation that several generat...read more

by Allan Taylor

This is a good question. The reason is that global warming is the new fashionable religion of Western democracies. Christian church attendances have long been declining and belief in global warming has filled the gap as...read more

by Julian Dotson

People believe in something incredible catastrophic like global warming because there all eternal pessimests. I mean, look at something like that hurricane that hit China. Was it a terrible natural disaster? Yes. Was it ca...read more

by Paulette Redemske

Let your mind wander back to the beginning of mans creation, now step out of the forest primeval and witness the glowing orb in the night sky that transmits virtually no light but is brilliantly bright, no warmth but there...read more

by Burke McKay

"Be careful what you ask, you just might get THE answer." "Seeing is believing"; when the Weather Channel, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, and almost everywhere you look these days there is some report or special on ...read more

by Michael Daly

It is a saddening example of the perfect storm of ideology, media manipulation, and superstition that permeates he debate over alleged global warming that the notion that it exists is so readily accepted and promoted while...read more

by Kenneth Boser Ii

There is a short answer to the reason why people believe in global warming, and then there is a real answer. It reminds me of the scene in "Airplane!" or "Airplane 2 : The Sequel" where the passengers are calmly flying ...read more

by Sahara Stirling

That global warming is a reality is fact. The majority of people today, including the majority of climate scientists, consider anthropogenic global warming, or warming caused by human activities, to also be fact. What no o...read more

by Rex Trulove

The majority of world's earth scientists have either not made up their minds regarding global warming, or disagree with the theories of a catastrophic global warming. Many of them have warned us repeatedly that there is si...read more

by Lin Edwards

The reason so many people believe global warming is happening, is because it is. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) the surface temperatures of the Earth have increased by around 0.6 de...read more