and i’m quite literally seeing posts from people earnestly asking why they’re having a hard time finding property insurance in florida. and others earnestly asking “who could have seen this coming?”
Per my friend, they are still positive that climate change is a big hoax and have a list of confabulated explanations for why that’s as long as ever. (I remember one frequent highlight being that you can’t trust historic temperature readings, because the scientists just “changed how they read the temperature,” because they “want more funding”. It always came back to the duplicitous capture of “funding.”)
It just seems like a completely different view of the world at its fundamentals.
The “climate change caused by CO2” argument is about the latter, local change goes on continuously.
The average global troposphere temperature change over the last forty years is half a degree centigrade.
That would not cause someone to move.