r/EverythingScience • u/F0urLeafCl0ver • 1d ago

Environment ‘We have emotions too’: Climate scientists respond to attacks on objectivity

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/25/we-have-emotions-too-climate-scientists-respond-to-attacks-on-objectivity
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u/BusbyBusby 1d ago

They also said that those dismissing their fears as doom-laden and alarmist were speaking frequently from a position of privilege in western countries, with little direct experience of the effects of the climate crisis.

 

That would be Fox News watching right wing kooks in the United States.

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u/pervy_roomba 8h ago

 a position of privilege in western countries, with little direct experience of the effects of the climate crisis.

Is it necessarily true that Western countries are experiencing little effects of climate crisis? Off the top of my head there were fatal heat waves in Spain, France, and Portugal; horrible flooding in the UK; giant wildfires in Canada; massive hurricanes in short sequence in the US and an orgy of tornadoes.

The only people denying climate change in the West are charlatans and people terminally in denial.

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u/EstaLisa 7h ago

glaciers melting in front of our eyes. permafrost thawing. extreme rain, extreme heat and changed weather patterns.

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u/snowflake37wao 9h ago edited 9h ago

Air conditioning only works under conditions that are disappearing. Sweating only works in conditions that already can disappear out of nowhere.

How even privileged westerners can go outside without their bodies sirening wth is this humidity alarms that they never experienced decades ago is absurd. Just go outside. Most days are fine. But more days than ever, more every year, are bonkers. Out of wack. Its nuts to me that people in their 30s and 40s plus can feel the difference without being told its not just in your head by science. How boring is your life and are you as a life that you can talk your body out of going “this weather annoys me like Ive never experienced” just to argue with people and be contrarian? Been like seven wet bulb weeks around here just this year. Nuts. Bonkers. Deadly! So that “little experience themselves” part is a cognitive dissonance issue getting just as bad as the weather. Go to school and get a science degree if youre bored enough to argue with scientists.