It couldn't be because its all a big con and lie could it? 

"Gifford said people tend to attach less importance to future problems than more immediate concerns."

Well, by God, he's right! I know I should put this $600 in my son's college fund, but those evil bankers will throw me out on the street if I don't pay my mortgage!   /sarc off

That's called reality, Bozo.

The fact that most people do worry about the future, do have college funds for their kids, or 401k plans for their retirement pretty much puts the lie to this academic pipsqueak's argument.

When did "The University of Victoria in British Columbia" become such a renowned seat of Academia, anyway?

Do they even have a decent football team?  ;^)

"Four legs good... two legs better!" - George Orwell

The loons at Absurd Prevarications are trying to tell us that if we don't believe the sky is falling we're nuts?  That's rich!

You are projecting your own view of Climate and Nature on the subject of man made global warming.

The Scientific method requires sceptical inquiry into proposed hypotheses. Pay specific attention to the steps, because gathering data to test hypotheses and using gathered data to test said hypotheses, is what the sceptics have done.

 From Wikipedia: Scientific method refers to a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge. To be termed scientific, a method of inquiry must be based on gathering observable, empirical and measurable evidence subject to specific principles of reasoning.[1] A scientific method consists of the collection of data through observation and experimentation, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses.[2]

See the following link for the full explanation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method

When you test a hypothesis and find a conditon where the hypothesis is invalid, you have to refine or change the hypothesis and retest. Rising CO2 emissions and recorded temperatures aren't following each other as the AGW hypothesis proposes. In fact the common thread of the "Climatgate E-mails", is how to present a picture of rising temperatures when the recorded temperatures are declining.

So, who's dogmatically clinging to a political position when the science shows otherwise?

AP reporting explained by Psychology: 

Freudian Projection

It must be my demented state of mind that found me at my daughter's house last night at midnight helping her unfreeze her water pipes with a blowtorch.

My insane imagination thought it saw -10 F on the outside thermometer at the time. My crazy state of mind heard on the radio that the windchill made it feel like 20 below as I drove out to her place. 

My mental instability tricked me into thinking I was shivering down to my boots as I crawled around the ground looking for where the water main entered her house so I could trace the water line from the street.

As the ice in the pipes melted and her water started flowing again, I thought that it must be time for me to get my head examined because Global Warming made it impossible for this to have happend to her water pipes.

Sheesh.

No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.

I'm a climate change/global warming denier.  there, I've said it.  Come get me Al.

"I dont need to read a newspaper to know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber."

Walter Brennan, The Colonel, Meet John Doe, 1941

This is hilarious:

"The lead negotiator for the small island nation of Tuvalu, the bow-tie wearing Ian Fry, broke down as he begged delegates to take tough action. 'I woke up this morning crying, and that's not easy for a grown man to admit,' Mr Fry said on Saturday, as his eyes welled with tears. 'The fate of my country rests in your hands,' he concluded, as the audience exploded with wild applause.

But the part-time PhD scholar at the Australian National University actually resides in Queanbeyan, NSW [Australia], where he's not likely to be troubled by rising sea levels because the closest beach at Batemans Bay is a two-hour, 144km drive away. Asked whether he had ever lived in Tuvalu, his wife told The Australian last night she would 'rather not comment'.... "

The Supremacy of Tuvalu: http://www.powerlineblog.com

The  Liberal Mind

The Psychological Causes of
Political Madness

By Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., M.D.

Read The Liberal Mind and learn why:

1. The laws and moral
   codes--the rules--that properly govern human conduct arise from, and
   must be compatible with, the biological, psychological and social
   nature of man.
2. The liberal agenda’s Modern Parental State violates all of the rules that make ordered liberty possible.
3. The modern
   liberal agenda is a transference neurosis of the modern liberal mind,
   acted out in the world’s economic, social and political theaters.
4. The liberal agenda’s Modern Permissive Culture corrupts the foundations of civilized freedom and is destroying America's magnificent political achievements.

The liberal agenda’s basic principles are not only
antithetical to our most cherished liberties; they are also directly
contrary to all that is good and noble in the human enterprise. The Liberal Mind is
the first work to explain why modern liberalism appeals to the
irrational tendencies of the human mind. It is the first work to
explain how liberalism can be defeated.

If you are feeling colder, It's because it is, (graph)