> how is it possible to be intelligent and not believe in climate change. Ok, let me give it a try. A few years ago I knew nothing about climate science. My s

> how is it possible to be intelligent and not believe in climate change. Ok, let me give it a try. A few years ago I knew nothing about climate science. My scepticism (not denying) was grounded in the overwhelming focus on feelings, not numbers. When someone started answer my questions with measurable numbers my scepticism waned. So I might have been wrong about this but I think it is often a nice heuristic: when people refuse to give you data and insist on either playing your feelings (with pictures of sad animals), appeal to authority (2500 scientists...) or outright calling you a troll then it could be because there was no hard data.