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."

Comments

Re:They don't understand the difference

[PopeRatzo]

Of course they do because many people (most maybe) do not understand the difference between climate and weather.

And all of them will show up eventually on Fox News.

Re:Smog's wish

[mi]

Then be a mensch and say what you mean, its patenly obvious that almost everyone in this Global Warming religion scheme has ulterior motives

The primary motif seems to be the same one... Scratch a Global Warming propagandist, and you'll find a Che Guevara T-shirt underneath. Whatever impedes Capitalism and allows the glorious Collective to smite an insolent Individual is good, and no lie is too big to serve as means to that noble end.