Is scientific reticence the new climate denialism?

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2 points·jules-jules··4 comments

Are there some numbers on the age distribution of climate change deniers. The older I get the more truth I see in Douglas Adams’ observation on aging

“Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

In the sense that past a certain age minds and attitudes don’t change.

Maybe longer lifespans are just make lives worse for everyone that comes after.

Climate scares are a thing of the ages - you'll find them in newspapers going back a century or more - so age is not likely to be a factor other than in those cases where the scare is reversed from what a previous generation experienced, e.g. the 70's "new ice age" scare vs. the 90's "global warming" scare.

I think it’s the swap between new ice age to global warming only solidified doubt in global warming for those that experienced it

The 70's "new ice age" scare didn't originate with a consensus of climate scientists though.

At that point the UN had already met and global agreement was in that C02 emmissions were going to result in warming and that was going to lead to some level of problem.

New "ice age" stories were the first advance of the Koch et al think tanks funded by fossil fuel moguls sowing doubt and confusion.

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