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The science of how carbon dioxide in the air helps trap heat isn't hard to understand or show in a small scale experiment.
It's then not hard to understand how if it's trapping heat, then things will get warmer overall and overall warmer things lead to things like ice melting.
It gets way more complex trying to model things like ice melt impacting ocean currents, but the basic understanding isn't hard at all.
I fully agree with all of that but I don't think that basic understanding is even important.
I go to the doctor when my body needs help. She spent years learning about how my body works and I trust her. Sure I do my own basic investigation first, but she has a holistic view and niche knowledge that I can never hope to compete with.
Climate scientists are saying that we're destroying the careful balance? Righto. You know better than I do.
Also what's the worst case scenario if they're wrong? I get my energy from a source that is solar panels on my roof or some company that isn't BP doing massive oil spills for pennies on the dollar or whatever and my country is energy secure?
OK then. Sounds good to me. 👍
I'm guessing there is a decent amount of overlap between the demographic that denies climate science and the demographic that denies medical science (antivaxx, the former anti-mask mandate group, etc)
Sir, you're showing me a circle. What am I supposed to be seeing?
Everyone i know that doesn't believe humanity is causing climate change (or that it's happening at all), also is antivax.
Obviously that's a small sample, but I bet I'm not the only one