People still think climate change is a hoax?

Alright, the world has existed for millions of years and humans have lived on it for millennia also. But the drastic changes happening in the natural world around us is alarming.

How do these deniers not see it?

What d'yall think? Is the whole climate change debate a bogeyman unleashed for I don't know what reasons.

Or is it something real that we all are responsible for?

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trollslayer · 46-50, M

I don't know. I remember first reading about it in the late 1980s. The problem is that the change happens slowly enough that it's hard to remember what is "normal", and then perturbations are easy to explain away.

But last year was unprecedented in warmth - by a long shot - nearly everywhere. I'm surprised more people have not changed their tune over the last year. If this summer is just as bad, what then? Perhaps some city like Miami or Venice needs to go under water first?

Heartlander · 80-89, M

@trollslayer I remember in the 1970s there were a few bitter cold winters in a row, and with that came warnings from weather scientist that we were at the dawn of another ice age :)

trollslayer · 46-50, M

@Heartlander Well, based upon the Milankovitch orbital cycles, we should be starting to cool. But those "Warnings" were not a consensus, or even close to that, just a few scientists who were just starting to understand Oxygen isotope data.

SW-User

@trollslayer people have changed their tune, but they won’t admit it. They’re now doubling down on their climate change denialism because they’re scared. It’s as simple as that.