Massive Government Report Says Climate Is Warming and Humans Are the Cause
It's hard enough to know how to approach a tragedy of the commons problem like climate change if everyone could agree that it is a problem, but it's difficult for me to understand why some people will argue that it is in fact happening.I would be interested in understanding the root cause of why people will disagree about this point.For example, a conservative friend of mine, who I think is one of the most intelligent people I know, will argue that climate change does not exist.I've asked him what he makes of e.g. the rising level of CO2 in the atmosphere. His response was there are scientists interested in self promotion and are willing to fabricate data, and/or that we can't actually measure CO2 accurately. Those are very unconvincing counterarguments in my view. I'm led to believe there must be a deeper root cause that prevents someone from objectively looking at data and seeing that some change is occurring (without even coming to a conclusion about what that change means or what to do about it).Yet, I have no idea what that root cause could be. Any ideas?