Belief: Climate Change Is Not a Threat 1. Cannot directly experience: Global climate change is not something individual people can observe. Your local weather has always been variable, and there have always been extreme weather events. Looking out your window day to day, you cannot detect climate change. 2. Ignore contrary evidence: Policies to fight climate change harm the near-term interests of some people and their businesses. Multiple rationales are used to protect these interests, such as that climate scientists are making up data and creating scary scenarios just to get more funding, or
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