Gonna go out on a limb here and say suppression of climate change research isn't the major factor in people wanting to own cars and heat their houses etchttps://twitter.com/hikikomorphism/status/1016655734623358979 …
Not something that people who aren't aware of global warming would do (and not likely to be swayed by more studies)
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Assuming their motive was unwillingness to drive less and cut back on A.C., this just demonstrates Misha's point
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Yeah they are aware of it and lying about it to further their political goals, not sure how that doesn't count or whatever
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That awareness of global warming and its causes isn't enough to make people want to stop it, and frequently has the opposite effect. Notice e.g. this was never much of a problem for banning smoking, no matter how rich those companies were, bc cigs < cars and a.c.
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People absolutely want to stop the negative effects of climate change it's just that Americans are largely insulated from the effects, and when you can't work outside in summer east of the Mississippi people will realize that
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The motivation for (example) condo developers in FL to spike climate legislation is so they don't have to do additional mitigation for when sea rise puts their lobbies underwater,
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