# Why no one cares about global warming.

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**Created:** [April 23, 2015, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-one-cares-about-global-warming/718337 "2015-04-23T04:05:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 28, 2015, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-one-cares-about-global-warming/718337/160 "2015-04-28T03:07:13Z")

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> [@wolfpup](#):
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> I’ll gladly second that. **GIGO** is a tireless provider of cited facts, and he is a great asset to the forum.
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> As for why **dasilva94** takes such offense at **GIGO** ’s posts, who knows? But I did find this [little item in another thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17835115&postcount=14):  
> Which may not be _belligerently_ ignorant, but it certainly qualifies as _scientifically_ ignorant with respect to completely missing the point about what climate models are about.

What he leaves out of course, is the follow up post, after an answer was given to the question.

> [@Has weather forecasting measurably improved in recent years?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-weather-forecasting-measurably-improved-in-recent-years/701799/17):
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> Okay I get get what you’re saying. Thanks.

It’s that sort of dishonesty, not telling the whole story, that is turning people who actually care a lot about the planet, into skeptics of the people preaching doom all the time. Along with telling us what we have to do, rather than showing is what they have done about it.

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