Global warming cynics unmoved by extreme weather

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2014/global-warming-cynics-unmoved-by-extreme-weather

[font face=Serif]Published: Nov. 24, 2014
[font size=5]Global warming cynics unmoved by extreme weather[/font]

[font size=3]What will it take to convince skeptics of global warming that the phenomenon is real? Surely, many scientists believe, enough droughts, floods and heat waves will begin to change minds.

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As this study and McCright’s past research shows, political party identification plays a significant role in determining global warming beliefs. People who identify as Republican tend to doubt the existence of global warming, while Democrats generally believe in it.

The abnormally warm winter was just one in an ongoing series of severe weather events – including the 2010 Russian heat wave, Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and the 2013 typhoon in the Philippines – that many believed would help start convincing global warming cynics.

“There’s been a lot of talk among climate scientists, politicians and journalists that warmer winters like this would change people’s minds,” McCright said. “That the more people are exposed to climate change, the more they’ll be convinced. This study suggests this is not the case.”

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2443

[The Blue Flower]

1. Proving again that reality has a liberal bias

For an ideologue, facts are the enemy of truth.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. The deniers I know use the Bible as their reference.

It's faith vs. fact.

[jwirr]

3. IMO Global Warming was the real problem. Every time it gets cold someplace the start yelling hoax.

We should not be using anything but Climate Change. They cannot deny that.

[OKIsItJustMe]

6. Oh, I don’t know

Someone who can deny “Global Warming” in defiance of the science, can deny “Climate Change” just as easily.

Personally, I wish we’d go back to the (much older) “Greenhouse Effect.”

[jwirr]

7. That would not be bad but once again - we cannot SEE the greenhouse effect so they will not

believe it. When we use Climate Change we can point to actual visible events that they cannot deny. Katrina, floods, draughts, extinctions of animals such as polar bears, etc.

Most deniers are visual. If they cannot see it they do not believe it. It is very strange that so many of them believe in God. We cannot see Him either.

[OKIsItJustMe]

9. Ah, but there has always been “Climate Change”

And there has always been extreme weather. Buffalo got hit hard in the winter of 1976-1977. (This is what inspired Jimmy Buffett to sing of people freezing in their cars in Buffalo.)
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=buffett+manana+buffalo+cars

And extinctions are nothing new.

Today’s “skeptic” or “denier” seems more likely to accept the notion of “Climate Change” but not as likely to accede that it is caused by people.

[jwirr]

10. Yes, and there is the real problem - caused by people. They do not want to believe because if they

do it calls for real changes.

[OKIsItJustMe]

11. On the other hand. It appears to me (perhaps I’m worng)

that they are now at least more willing than they were to admit that “Climate Change”/“Global Warming” is occurring.

(That’s the first step. Acknowledging that the problem exists.)

[jwirr]

12. I think if we stop listening to people like Inhofe you may be right. The people (ordinary people) I

know are beginning to understand a but more what those phrases we use really mean and they are beginning to see the effect world wide. And yes we may finally be getting through - I hope.

[daleanime]

4. Kick....

[ffr]

5. Fuck deniers. A fact is a fact.

Let's see, my local weather, which is not global, but is still oddly warmer, was and will be:

Today it was 5 degrees above normal for the morning low. Not bad.
Tomorrow will be 10 degrees above normal for the morning low. About normal for these drought conditions.
The next day will be 15 degrees above normal for the morning low. Not that unusual these past three drought years.
The next day after that will be 17 degrees above normal for the morning low. A little higher than usual, but not out of the ordinary.
Then the next two days are 10 degrees above normal for the morning low.

What do all of these fall days have in common? Dry, without the possibility of precipitation. I think I've counted two days in 2014 that had morning temperatures that were below the running average. Coincidence?

You think beef and vegetable costs were high this year! Ha! Wait until Spring of 2015. No water. Less food. Higher prices.

[phantom power]

8. Hopes that actual changing climate would finally convince "climate skeptics" misunderstand ...

the nature of the problem. The denial was never rooted in anything rational or reality based. It is absolutely possible for climate disaster to play out indefinitely, without ever changing a single "climate skeptic's" mind.