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genxlib

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7. You beat me to it

Reply to Voltaire2 (Reply #6)

Fri Aug 25, 2017, 07:49 AM

Aug 2017

I was going to say it is actually worse when people equate weather and climate.

It makes it impossible for them to conceptualize what the science is actually trying to tell them about climate.

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So Trump supporters think weather science [View all] busterbrown Aug 2017 OP

They are the people that do not evacuate when told to and then complain when no one risks their life appleannie1943 Aug 2017 #1

That about sums it up! burrowowl Aug 2017 #2

yep nt steve2470 Aug 2017 #3

It's true forecasts are not 100% accurate.... steve2470 Aug 2017 #4

It's unbelievable. And it's not like weather science is some "new fangled" thing Rhiannon12866 Aug 2017 #5

Trump supporters are idiots but meteorology is not climatology. Voltaire2 Aug 2017 #6

You beat me to it genxlib Aug 2017 #7

republicans have lied so much they have convinced some people Achilleaze Aug 2017 #8