I think it's easy to see why some people scoff at the notion of Global Climate Shift.
They look at these graphs (eg) and they see about a 1°C rise over 150 years - having heard the semi-panic in "the liberal voices of the left" about the catastrophe coming if it rises another 1 or 2 degrees.
I hear this one all time: "It takes 150 years to go up 1°, so in the next 150-200 years - before it's a real problem - they'll come up with something to fix it and make it OK."
Of course, that's old news because the pace is accelerating, and the point of no return is not just closer than they figured a few years ago, but could be right on top of us now.
Most "conservatives" I know aren't big on Continuing Education, preferring the comfortably numb position of assuming all that new stuff is just Political Correctness. Plus the voices coming from "the right" have been telling them for 30 years it's all nonsense because "the truth is always somewhere in the middle", and they buy into that shit even when it's a question of 2+2=4 vs 2+2=6. So they can blow it off as just more political noise that they don't need to worry about.
We get so conditioned that when we see the "once-in-a-lifetime storm" is happening about every 2 or 3 years, we can regard each one as the anomaly instead of understanding that this freaky shit is actually the new norm.
I think that - along with some other things - is starting to change.
Because the pendulum swings.
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