Yes that’s it, the locals are just too stupid to notice global warming because they are conflating it to local temperatures. Let’s remind everyone bloviating about AGW the next time we have a heat wave and record setting local temperatures are recorded, that these local temperatures don’t matter.
Study finds local temperature influences belief in global warming
Columbia Business School’s Center for Decision Sciences’ study depicts how beliefs on global warming are mistakenly influenced by daily temperature
NEW YORK – May 27, 2011 – A study by Columbia Business School Professor Eric Johnson, co-director of the Center for Decision Sciences (http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/decisionsciences) at Columbia Business School, Ye Li, a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Decision Sciences, and Lisa Zaval, a Columbia graduate student in psychology, found that those who thought the current day was warmer than usual were more likely to believe in and feel concern about global warming than those who thought the day was unusually cold. The study, recently featured in Psychological Science, explains why public belief in global warming can fluctuate, since people can base their thinking off of the day’s temperature. The researchers behind this study are also affiliated with Columbia University’s Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, CRED (http://www.cred.columbia.edu/).
The team surveyed about 1,200 people in the United States and Australia in three different studies in order to determine their opinions about global warming and whether the temperature on the day of the study was warmer or cooler than usual. Respondents who thought that day was warmer than usual were more concerned about global warming than respondents who thought that day was colder than usual.
“Global warming is so complex, it appears some people are ready to be persuaded by whether their own day is warmer or cooler than usual, rather than think about whether the entire world is becoming warmer or cooler,” said lead author Ye Li. “It is striking that society has spent so much money, time and effort educating people about this issue, yet people are still so easily influenced.”
The study also revealed that respondents were fairly good at knowing if it was unusually hot or cold–perceptions correlated with reality three quarters of the time. While politics, gender and age all had the predicted influences – for instance, on the researchers’ 1-to-4 scale of belief in global warming, Democrats were 1.5 points higher than Republicans – after controlling for the other factors, the researchers found that perceived temperatures still had nearly two-thirds the power as political belief, and six times the power as gender.
These results join a growing body of work that shows how irrelevant environmental information, such as the current weather, can affect judgments and opinions on climate change.
I wonder what his hick-ness has to say about the fact that in all these decades, not one instrument, such as an optical telescope or an infra-red one, has shown ANY additional MOTION
hence HEAT
in the GAS
of the atmosphere he claims is about to catch on fire.
I wonder how he feels about the fact, the people he takes up for, were furiously calculating doomsday with non math they all thought were indistinguishable from college statistics.
I wonder how he feels about the fact that when Phil Jones said he knew it hadn’t warmed since ’98 but had in fact cooled,
Jones’ private assertion of true global temp just happened, to mirror PRECISELY, the RAW INSTRUMENTAL DATA POSTED ONLINE BY LAW to STOP people like JONES from RUNNING WEATHER SCAMS.
I wonder how he feels about seeing Steven Schneider write that ludicrous paper in which he claimed (1)all the world’s thermometers are worthless, and that (2) he wrote a paper OVERTHROWING the LAWS of INSRUMENTATION, calculating TEMPERATURE from WIND SPEED.
I wonder how embarrassed his hillbilly person is, knowing he represents the bunch of galoots who pushed all the above as ‘scients’.
I wonder if he is curious about how the people he thought were furiously teaching each other to calculate doomsday had to be told by the Head of the Royal Statistical Society that not only was none of that ‘climate statistics’ not statistics,
but that NO so-called CLIMATE MATH was even MATH, AT ALL…
Wonder what that does in Nye the ignorant’s head, to all those furiously authored TOILET PAPERS by the UnRealClimate Science-Law Revision crew.
From what I read, the conclusion could just as easily be turned around -one’s belief (or not) in AGW determines whether they “thought the current day was warmer than usual”.
Sounds like no thermometers were used in the study, just what people “thought” the temperature was. Or am I misreading?