{"id":142,"date":"2020-02-10T17:33:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T17:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2020-04-11T17:25:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T21:25:27","slug":"climate-change-deniers-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/10\/climate-change-deniers-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change deniers: Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Roberto Lachner<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

   When it comes to climate change denial, there are two questions that are the most important to address and understand in order to \u201cget\u201d the controversy. First, how <\/em>do people deny man-made climate change\u2019s existence, and why <\/em>they do so. In a society in which climate skepticism and outright denial is growing in the face of increasing evidence against it, and even despite the all more apparent consequences of global warming, it\u2019s imperative to understand what\u2019s going through these people\u2019s heads, even if you are not on the same side of the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

   The common thread behind climate change skeptics\u2019 arguments are just that- skepticism. They are based on disproving the evidence and arguments put forth by the scientific community. For example, one of the more common statements repeated by climate change deniers is that \u201cthe climate has changed before,\u201d which implicitly discredits scientists\u2019 opinion that the current change of global climate is not only real and current, but a dangerously pressing issue that needs to be addressed. Other arguments include pointing out factors that scientists may have \u201cmissed\u201d, such as the supposed fact that \u201cthe sun is getting hotter\u201d or that \u201ccosmic rays\u201d are actually the cause of the heating, not humans. The third- and possibly most common- type of argument is that global warming is just not serious, and no one should worry about it. \u201cAnimals and plants can adapt\u201d and \u201cit\u2019s not an existential threat\u201d are both common derivations of this philosophy; even the previously mentioned \u201cclimate has changed before\u201d also implies that since it happened before- and we\u2019re still here- then it\u2019s fine if it happens again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

   As to why<\/em> people deny the existence and severity of man-made climate change, there\u2019s many different reasons and each individual skeptic has their own thinking. For one, a fair amount of the media outlets people pay attention to have biases when it comes to the supposed climate-change debate, causing their reporting to be misleading or false. Not to mention many of these media groups are controlled or influenced by people and corporations who have historically benefitted financially from hiding the truth about climate change. Since most people don\u2019t diversify where they get their information from, opinions radiated from just a few news sources can seem as if they are mainstream and correct in the minds of readers\/ listeners nationwide. Another cause of denial can simply be that the reported possible consequences of global warming seem so extreme, so disastrous, so other-worldly, that it almost sounds made-up or exaggerated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

   With all that being said, people have their own individual arguments and opinions against global warming, as well as their own reasons for the denial. What\u2019s important is simply to know how everyone thinks in relation to a subject, because we can all often get lost in our own perception and opinions, isolated from the reality of how it is perceived by everyone else. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Roberto Lachner    When it comes to climate change denial, there are two questions that are the most important to address and understand in order to \u201cget\u201d the controversy. First, how do people deny man-made climate change\u2019s existence, and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/watercrisis.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}