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It's not today's weather that gives them that, it's the lifetime of weather experience. If you're talking to someone at least 40 years old then it meets the 3 c

• QuotedForTruth 8y ago
  Your parent comment is talking about people who feel an inuition about climate trends. Climate trends happen over long time periods. That violates the immiediate feedback condition.
• ams6110 8y ago
  They remember a bad winter or big storm that hit the town where they grew up. That's not in any way relevant to global climate.
• cronix 8y ago
  > If you're talking to someone at least 40 years old then it meets the 3 conditions. If they were like 20,000 years old, they might have some wisdom after going through natural ice ages and other cyclical patterns that take more than several lifetimes to go through. 40 years? When talking about a planet billions of years old with long hot/cold stretches lasting thousands of years each? Polar shifts? I'd wager they don't have enough data gathered during their insignificant blip of a lifetime to make speculative global warming claims.
  • dmurray 8y ago
    "The weather is different now than it was 30 years ago" is definitely something that can be judged with some level of confidence by a 40 year old, despite their possible cognitive biases that could confound this judgment. Saying "they can't tell how the weather is changing on a 20,000 year timescale" isn't relevant to that claim.
    • zorga 8y ago
      Sure, but weather isn't climate and fluctuations over a 30 year period of the weather aren't indicative of the trends in climate.