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Originally Posted by cockerpunk
why is it that when a heat wave comes through, i have never seen a climate change proponent post "haha, yeah thats that global warming!"
but whenever something cold happens, denialists will always post like this.
i think its a fundamental misunderstanding of the different between climate, and weather. one snow storm does not change a 60 year trend of warming.
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that's part of it
another problem is that some narrowly trained person thinks they are a climate scientist
the biggest effect is the tons of money that the coal & oil industries have spent to create doubt in the vast majority of people who don't understand things - much like the tobacco industry did with smoking and lung cancer
in fact the same
PR flacks who ran the tobacco industry campaign are now working for the coal & oil industries