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In my experience, the reason climate change doubters are so opposed is because of the “concrete and drastic measures” proposed. It has very little to do with “h

In my experience, the reason climate change doubters are so opposed is because of the “concrete and drastic measures” proposed. It has very little to do with “hard numbers and objective facts”. People are reluctant to give up their lifestyle or lose a job for the sake of “global warming”, so they focus on the possibility of it not being real instead.

sprafa 5y ago
69% of Americans believe climate change is real. https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/americans https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/americans... That's an overwhelming majority. The 'doubt' is media-created FUD being replicated to pretend to be an issue.
- prophesi 5y ago
  Conversely, 31% of Americans don't believe in climate change, which would be over 100 million people. That's pretty concerning. Though I also completely agree that the division is further exacerbated by the media.
  - jhgb 5y ago
    Apparently more USAians believe in climate change than evolution. Not sure if it's reassuring or scary.
  - lumost 5y ago
    20% of Americans believe almost anything under the sun (although it’s a different 20% for each issue). Demanding 100% belief in climate change to accomplish something is not the best strategy.
    - prophesi 5y ago
      That's fair, though you need people to understand the facts before you can even start the discussion. And it doesn't help that it's a partisan issue in the USA's broken two-party system, ensuring that the discussion gets nowhere.
mekoka 5y ago
Identifying a phenomenon and its causes doesn't necessarily mean that you know how to address it. It's a common fallacy. Questioning prognostical conclusions and recommendations made based on not a single data point (we don't know of another planet that went through something similar) is a valid stance. Scientists have been wrong before. I remember Allan Savory confessing his regrets to the killings of thousands of elephants in an effort to prevent desertification, only for things to get worse. Later they realized that the ancillary effects of their grazing activities were actually contributing to slowing down and even reversing desertification.

sprafa 5y ago

69% of Americans believe climate change is real. https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/americans https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/americans... That's an overwhelming majority. The 'doubt' is media-created FUD being replicated to pretend to be an issue.

prophesi 5y ago
Conversely, 31% of Americans don't believe in climate change, which would be over 100 million people. That's pretty concerning. Though I also completely agree that the division is further exacerbated by the media.
- jhgb 5y ago
  Apparently more USAians believe in climate change than evolution. Not sure if it's reassuring or scary.
- lumost 5y ago
  20% of Americans believe almost anything under the sun (although it’s a different 20% for each issue). Demanding 100% belief in climate change to accomplish something is not the best strategy.
  - prophesi 5y ago
    That's fair, though you need people to understand the facts before you can even start the discussion. And it doesn't help that it's a partisan issue in the USA's broken two-party system, ensuring that the discussion gets nowhere.

mekoka 5y ago

Identifying a phenomenon and its causes doesn't necessarily mean that you know how to address it. It's a common fallacy. Questioning prognostical conclusions and recommendations made based on not a single data point (we don't know of another planet that went through something similar) is a valid stance. Scientists have been wrong before. I remember Allan Savory confessing his regrets to the killings of thousands of elephants in an effort to prevent desertification, only for things to get worse. Later they realized that the ancillary effects of their grazing activities were actually contributing to slowing down and even reversing desertification.