I think it’s mostly an availability bias, since most of the non-climate scientists who have anything to say about global warming are heavily involved in either conservation or economic issues relating to the Global South, both areas likely to suffer under climate change. Do any Canadian/Russian/Northern European posters have any stories about people talking positively of climate change, I’ve heard a few comments about peach trees and wine in the UK, though it’s kinda muted because of the possibility of Gulf stream interactions making us colder. But certainly you hear plenty of arguments along the lines of “why should we care, we’ll be well out of it”.
EDIT: Come to think of it, given the wealth differentials involved, people probably avoid saying this because it would come across as callous, though with appropriate changes to international trade and development it needn’t be.
It’s a common joke in Alaska that Global Warming can’t come soon enough.
It’s tongue in cheek, generally related to some weather story which has been conflated to involve Accelerated Global Warming (even though the likelihood that the specific event has anything to do with the changing climate is extremely small).
It’s also worth noting that Climate Science as a discipline is extremely young. As far as I know you can’t even get a specific degree for it anywhere yet. It seems right now the best you can do is a meteorology or atmospheric science degree, or some sort of combined meteorology/climatology degree. That will probably change soon (and there may already be programs I am not aware of), but the study of the climate itself is only a few decades old, so expect a lot of poor theories to give way to more solid theories in the coming years.
The most unfortunate thing about climatology is just how politically charged it is while it is so new. I suppose this happens a lot in science, but it is still unfortunate. It is simply begging researchers to fail the second heuristic, and the usual safe haven of public funding is possibly the biggest source of the problem!
I think it’s mostly an availability bias, since most of the non-climate scientists who have anything to say about global warming are heavily involved in either conservation or economic issues relating to the Global South, both areas likely to suffer under climate change. Do any Canadian/Russian/Northern European posters have any stories about people talking positively of climate change, I’ve heard a few comments about peach trees and wine in the UK, though it’s kinda muted because of the possibility of Gulf stream interactions making us colder. But certainly you hear plenty of arguments along the lines of “why should we care, we’ll be well out of it”.
EDIT: Come to think of it, given the wealth differentials involved, people probably avoid saying this because it would come across as callous, though with appropriate changes to international trade and development it needn’t be.
It’s a common joke in Alaska that Global Warming can’t come soon enough.
It’s tongue in cheek, generally related to some weather story which has been conflated to involve Accelerated Global Warming (even though the likelihood that the specific event has anything to do with the changing climate is extremely small).
It’s also worth noting that Climate Science as a discipline is extremely young. As far as I know you can’t even get a specific degree for it anywhere yet. It seems right now the best you can do is a meteorology or atmospheric science degree, or some sort of combined meteorology/climatology degree. That will probably change soon (and there may already be programs I am not aware of), but the study of the climate itself is only a few decades old, so expect a lot of poor theories to give way to more solid theories in the coming years.
The most unfortunate thing about climatology is just how politically charged it is while it is so new. I suppose this happens a lot in science, but it is still unfortunate. It is simply begging researchers to fail the second heuristic, and the usual safe haven of public funding is possibly the biggest source of the problem!