There can be more than those reasons, and there are, why people don’t support “Cap-and-Trade.”

Really now, are you a climatologist? Do you yourself actually know anything at all about climatology that you have not read on a webpage associated with politically conservative organization? The scientists who have spent their professional lives studying the Earth’s climate in all of its complexity believe that the release of GHGs by human beings is causing global climatic change (aka “Global Warming” a poor formulation but one with popular currancy). What can you yourself say about this topic that would make one believe you and not the community of climatologists.

I think the biggest predictor of one’s position on “global warming” (i.e. global climatic change) is in no same part determined by a how inconvenient it is to one’s life. Reducing GHGs sounds nice until one actually has to go out one’s way to do it. Another T/S blogger posted about a recent study that showed that dog’s have a larger carbon footprint than an SUV. This might suggest that getting rid of dogs, as opposed to SUVs, might be an effective policy to reduce GHGs (not really but follow me on this). Imagine if such a policy were to be suggest, much less enforced. Lots of dog lovers would suddenly cease to “believe” in global warming (I am not certain but I suspect cat lovers would become more likely to believe).

The simple fact of the matter is that it is climatology is a really complex science, one without too many laboratory experiments, one that scientists themselves do not have the tightest grasp on, and it is really difficult to make it accessible to the average person. Unless people can experience something themselves, it is all very abstract. The example I use from my own life is the number of days of frost on my front lawn. When I first moved to my current house over 25 years ago, I could count on my lawn being dead for three or four months from daily frosts. I planted winter rye to keep things green when the St. Augustine was dead. Now, we get a few frosts in December but my St. Augustine is green year round now.