The really hardcore believers just find themselves constantly vindicated. Had a "discussion" w/ somebody who believes in a 6 degree avr temperature increase by 2100 due to "feedback loops" recently
Some subset of the urban upper-middle-class population of NYC appears to believe that the entire city is always within about a decade of disappearing under the sea. At least I get this impression from talks with friends / former students there.
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There is something unreal about belief in climate science, a set of radical doctrines people subscribe to, which however drive them only to acts of superficial signalling. Nobody ever behaves like it‘s real.
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If it were real, would you offshore manufacturing? You‘d want to keep it at home to monitor emissions as closely as possible. Also, you‘d literally *nuke other countries into the stone age* to stop their emissions and give you space to emit indefinitely for your population.
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In the end, it all comes down to a lame version of atheist apocalypticism.
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