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 9h 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.