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How Weather Influences Global Warming Opinions
An anonymous reader writes in with this story about how people's belief in climate change shifts with the temperature. "Last week's polar vortex weather event wasn't only hard on fingers, toes and heating bills. It also overpowered the ability of most people to make sound judgments about climate change, in the same way that heat waves do, according to a new study published in the Jan. 11 issue of the journal Nature Climate Change. Researchers have known for some time that the acceptance of climate change depends on the day most people are asked. During unusually hot weather, people tend to accept global warming, and they swing against it during cold events."
It's all the same
"There's no global warming because I'm cold." "There's no poverty because I'm rich." "There's no racism because I'm white."
Add to that "there's no Islamic terrorism because they haven't hit my town ... yet!
You would have done much better if you hadn't cited the Examiner. If it's independent data from a respected source, you should be able to link to something more reputable.
Kythe
There is no atheist terrorism you fucking moron.
man made global warming is and has always been MADE UP. The only reason, is to control people who are too stupid to realize that the sun runs in cycles. We had one of these severe cold snaps in the 70's...lasted most of the winter. It was colder than this even then. And the next summer? It was hotter than it ever was. Then, in the 80's it moderated, and in the early 90's it heated up again, then cooled again. The man made global warming nuts are just trying to control the money the United States and other "rich" countries have, steal it away, and give it to the "poor" countries, because, under their idea of a Utopian world, if someone has more than someone else, that isn't fair. Of course, those that make up these rules, are exempt from having more than anyone else. You want to see how this would all end? Watch the movie Elysium.