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Originally Posted by Head416
I've seen plenty of Pelicans from various areas describing a cold year. I've seen news of record low temps and snow storms. Granted, most of this is US, but not all. How many people have you heard comment that they had an unusually warm 2010? I can't think of a single one that I've heard.
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Here in TN it was the warmest year in my memory. It was brutal here in the summer (the warmest summer on record for TN, IIRC).
I think people deny climate change due to a phenomena whereby if they personally don't understand it, then it obviously isn't occurring. It's just like people who deny the theory of evolution. I realize that it is a natural human reaction to deny things that they do not understand (or that are difficult to understand), but just because one person (or a group of people) doesn't understand something, that doesn't mean that
no one understands it. For instance, I was (and still am to an extent) skeptical of the whole "Dark Matter" explanation for the total mass of the universe. It reeks of a fudge factor to me. But, just because I don't understand it, that doesn't mean that no one does. In fact, there has been at least one actual experiment that has validated the theory.
I don't intend this as a criticism, but it is not rational to completely blow off years of research by thousands of scientists as "an inaccurate process and/or fraud". That simply exposes your lack of understanding.