Regardless of whether or not you believe in the concept of global warming, you have to admit that something is changing. Over the past few years, politicians, lobbyists, and simple deniers have been trying to persuade people that all of the evidence available to support global warming is fake. According to the Huffington Post, “the number of Americans who believe that climate change is connected to human-caused pollution (AKA Global Warming) is at its lowest point in three years. Only 57% of Americans now believe this inconvenient truth — down from 77% in 2006, when Al Gore released his film”.

It may seem that the belief in global warming is a “trend”, but something has to be done regardless. This is hard, however, when some of the biggest names in politics and social change believe that the warming is a hoax. According to the Mother Nature Network, deniers of global warming include Donald Trump, Ted Nugent, David Bellamy, Sen. James Inhofe, and Michael Crichton. Donald Trump told members of his Trump National Golf Club, “With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore”. When someone with so much power in the world believes something to be false, many others follow.

In general, it seems as though Democrats are trying to solve the global warming crisis and Republicans deny its existence. But why is this? Could it be because Republicans have a direct intrest in the coal and oil industries? If global warming exists, and alternative energy needs to be discovered to slow its effects, then lots and lots of people lose money.

That may not be the only reason people deny the effects of global warming. According to Max Boykoff of the University of Colorado at Boulder, “I would only suspect that most if not all of us wish there wasn’t a problem in the first place, and on an individual psychological level there’s a certain element of cognitive dissonance. We wish it to not be an issue and, if it isn’t influencing us directly, then we turn our attention to other more pressing issues. So part of the politicization is fed by our own resistance to confronting a crucial issue”. This makes sense. When something is causing such a direct impact on our lives, we try to pretend it doesn’t exist.

http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/global_cooling_7njz5ZtpFblMuF5Vf7LJmN

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/22/most-dangerous-global-war_n_330614.html

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-weather/photos/7-surprising-global-warming-deniers/donald-trump

Why Republicans deny global warming.

http://news.discovery.com/earth/is-global-warming-real.html