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Comment by wildmusings

Since it's come up in the comments and it's one of my pet peeves: there's some incredible confirmation bias around claims of personally observing climate change. Historical temperature fluctuations are huge, so no, you are almost certainly not "observing" climate change in your hometown. Human-caused climate change is expected to cause steady changes in the average, almost invisible in short time periods compared to the wild fluctuations that would anyway occur year to year, decade to decade, in any area.

Climate change has now become a religion though, so I'm not surprised that the faithful are having the equivalent of apparitions. (This doesn't mean it's not real, just that it's a point of political dogma for some, which I think is unfortunate because it only makes doubters more skeptical by foreclosing opportunities for persuasion.)

parent wildmusings 9 years ago

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