where have all the climate change dicussions gone?

Many of us get distracted by other news. Global warming is not a hoax. Look at the underwear of women, they started from a really wide coverage, and now strings can be considered as underwear.

Maybe because it is a silly argument. The climate has ALWAYS changed so to say it is man made and that paying more taxes will fix it is ridiculous. I wonder how much in taxes the dinosaurs paid and still froze?

The discussions melted with the snow. Not only did we have the "colder than usual no global warming argument" we also had the "colder than normal proves global warming argument" Now we are all worried about money. It is a hot summer here, but not the hottest I ever remember. Last winter was cold, and long, but not the worst I remember either. I like Hatley's idea that the discussers are all stuck in traffic.

Maybe they are all riding on another bandwagon. Another of the evergreen topics is "The world is coming to an end" one, because somewhere in the world, some disaster has taken place and the doom and gloom cranks right away crawl out of the woodwork loudly procaiming that the end of the world is nigh! repent! repent!

Maybe its because at least some sentient folks have figured out that the Al Gore ponzi scheme and corrupt "science" and scientists have indeed perpetrated a hoax, fraud, scheme, blah, blah, blah. My granddaughter and I learned that there is no global warming in 3rd grade Science last year.

I hang out in my apartment and live on the Internet. Since I hardly ever go out, I hardly notice anything unusual in the weather. Lately, whenever I go out, it's very hot which isn't unusual since it's summer. The only non news item I have on global warming is that over the past twenty years I noticed that March and April were unusually cold and that it sometimes snowed. When I was younger, March was just windy, kite weather. I might see a kite every now and then, but that's something that seems like an ancient activity.

Well they ended with that winter. Largely they were in response to the more frequent discussions of "It's HOT this summer! That means global warming is REAL!". Oddly enough I haven't seen those discussions this summer, but they were quite common last year which is what prompted the winter discussions. Basically though, the intentional distortion of data by supposed "scientists" to promote an agenda is what brought the opponents of the man-caused global warming crap to the forefront. Simply put, every summer feels hotter than the last and every winter feels colder than the last for some people. Since very few of us have 100% accurate temperature detection built in and a good enough memory to remember daily temperatures this "human data" is pretty meaningless.

crikey, I am having a cooler than normal summer, therefore global warming must be a hoax...

Some people don't want global warming to be true.

At the moment, lack of jobs, elections, oil in the Gulf, a Mosque being built too close to Ground Zero, and illegal immigrants are more important.

South, like birds.

We humans have a very short memory and we keep in mind only those things that interest us. During the last year, the media made a mess of this topic called the "Global Warming" and it kept flashing in the newspapers and television and many other media places. Over the period, the media shifted its attention to other things and as this was something that we did not want to remember, we seem to have forgotton everything about the climate change.

To be perfectly honest I am not sure. I think it may have to do partly to the international talks of reducing carbon emissions, but maybe not. It may have also to do with the fact that many car companies in particular are coming up with temporary solutions to the problem and are recieveing more attention due to their attempts at soleving the problem, when in reality they do very little for the time being. It can also be because there are many other more immenient threats going on in the world at this time, such as the middle east, Iran's nuclear program is finally taking shape with Russia help, and North Korea/South Korea conflict firing up again.

well... climate is sure getting weird. the summer here (tokyo, japan) is freaking hot while the winter is colder than ever and last longer! but i do hear about the climate change hoax...

I was just saying this to my husband earlier today. We were melting in 106 degree heat, and I turned to him and pointed out how all anyone ever talked about in winter was how the unusual snows proved global warming was a hoax, but they all shut up after the thermometer started reading 100+. Then he responded to me by saying global warming still wasn't happening...just because.

hi jb maybe they all got too hot from climate changes and moved to alaska or again maybe the climate got too cold and oh that is it, they have come here to overcrowded, expensive to live in, jobless Southern California. Or maybe the discussers are all caught in the weekend traffic on th 405 freeway going to Newport beach and environs.I am sure that's it as its finally hot again here and its cooler on the beach.they all got tired of makingdiscussions and decided to go have some of New Port beaches famous cholate covered frozen bananas. they are really much better than they sound. but then I love both chocolate and bananas too.

Crikey, the tropical systems are taking a predictable path this season...so far...therefore global warming must be a hoax. You make a very good point though, jb. Folks in my home state up north suffered through a terrible heat wave where it was actually hotter up there than it was down here so it is curious that no one has mentioned global warming lately.

Unfortunatelly we usually forget about climate changes because we get distracted with all the daily problems. This really has to change because climate is getting worst everyday and the most of us don't do nothing about it.