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Because cause and effect need to be simple? Lots of people tune out when it comes to science. Also the outgroup in this case is science/scientists.

• ben_w 2y ago
  There is a climate-changing chemical released by aircraft as they fly overhead — it's called "carbon dioxide". It's just, (a) CO2 is invisible, and (b) CO2 being this chemical is politically unacceptable to people who make money selling carbon rich fuels and also to people who are currently unable to switch to a different power supply.
  • ZeroGravitas 2y ago
    The contrails also have a climate effect via cloud formation. https://iee.psu.edu/news/podcast/growing-impact-contrails-and-climate-change https://iee.psu.edu/news/podcast/growing-impact-contrails-an... This was in the news recently as Google removed this aspect from its flight GHG impact estimate as it was averaging over all flights, and intends to adjust it in future so that flights at the time of day that create contrails will have more GHG impact attributed to them.
• whstl 2y ago
  IMO the people who tune out from all science at least remain neutral. The problem is the people who spent half their day reading and sharing fake scientific articles. Those are not really "tuning out".
• Barrin92 2y ago
  >Because cause and effect need to be simple? There's nothing simple about about government agencies and weather manipulating satellites though. It seems like the reality is the exact opposite. Science is way too boring and simple for most people, and unlike conspiracy theories science doesn't absolve you of responsibility. Therefore those people will rather invent 500 pages of crackpot lore rather than take a high school chemistry or math class.