Chamblee54

There is a comment in a recent thread at Obsidian Wings that says a great deal, both about the debate on climate change, and the way people view things. This was posted by someone called “Turbulence”.
I think what this analysis misses is the fact that for many people, policy questions like climate change responses are more about tribal affiliation than debates about facts. In my experience, lots of climate change skeptics aren’t amenable to information: every bit of information that doesn’t match their world view is disregarded or twisted. Besides, they “know” that climate change is just a crazy scam cooked up by the leftist elites. In my experience, trying to discuss these issues rationally is sort of like trying to convince someone to change their favorite football team. I mean, people argue about football teams all the time, but how often does anyone change their minds based on one of those arguments? Not very, because team loyalty has a lot more to do with tribal identification than it does with facts and figures.
In the post that preceded this comment, the writer said “Importantly, weather is not the same as climate” , to which someone called Chamblee54 replied “What is the difference between climate and weather?” It seems like this is a forest/trees thing…weather is the individual,local event that is part of the overall climate.
There is a law somewhere that you can predict what groups will do a lot better than you can individuals. The gambling and insurance industries ( no wise comments about them being the same thing ) are built on this premise. Yes, it may have snowed in Atlanta four times this winter, but the overall trend is, probably, for warmer overall temperatures.
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