How Weather Influences Global Warming Opinions 517
An anonymous reader writes in with this story about how people's belief in climate change shifts with the temperature. "Last week's polar vortex weather event wasn't only hard on fingers, toes and heating bills. It also overpowered the ability of most people to make sound judgments about climate change, in the same way that heat waves do, according to a new study published in the Jan. 11 issue of the journal Nature Climate Change. Researchers have known for some time that the acceptance of climate change depends on the day most people are asked. During unusually hot weather, people tend to accept global warming, and they swing against it during cold events."
Re:Sure (Score:4, Funny)
Obligatory Armstrong & Miller [youtube.com] link.
Sound Judgments (Score:2, Funny)
It also overpowered the ability of most people to make sound judgments about climate change
Pretty sure Al Gore did that many years ago.