Re: Why are some people still skeptical about climate change?
⭐ Merited by Spendulus (6)
It's just not something a regular person can claim to understand. Nor can we directly experience it's impact.
But they do. Go back through this very thread, you will see dozens of people wailing about how hot it is and that it's climate change, and carbon emissions was obviously the reason....
Oh, wait...that was in the summer....
.....Climate change is too abstract to have an opinion on.
I find that every few years the secular world comes up with an end times prophecy.
I find that every few years the secular world comes up with an end times prophecy.
Amusing, isn't it?
The concept of something being too abstract to have an opinion on I'm going to have to mull over. Offhand I believe the abstractness INVALIDATES statements of opinion.
Do you have an OPINION on p versus np?
I guess to be a bit more accurate, what I'm getting at it's hard for an intellectually curious person not involved in these fields to have a genuinely strong conviction based on their understanding. I tried looking at the data a couple of times. It's so heterogeneous that you'd need to know a lot about the technical details of measurement techniques to even start evaluating it. And many of these things you can't easily look up, and without significant resources you won't get around to play with. I'm sure many of us have an opinion or a gut feeling one way or another and that's fine.
With something like P/NP, at least the "insiders" have less of an edge which is mostly access to other smart people thinking about it I guess?
Couldn't agree more, there is not much you can do by yourself to check any of this shit. Unlike something like the flat earth, where you can actually do tests/experiments by yourself and you don't even need a lot of scientific knowledge. I would give you merit for this post but I have 0 to give
A lot of people here act like they know everything about it because they read a few articles here and there.