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Re:July 2023 was the hottest month on record by upvota on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @04:51PM (#37153630)
> the world's coal consumption set a new record in 2022, and the lockdowns are largely to blame.

I‘d love to learn more about that interaction.

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Re:July 2023 was the hottest month on record by labster on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @05:27PM (#37154103)
Me too. I studied climatology and a bit of environmental policy at university, so it seems unlikely… but I’ve seen weirder feedbacks. It’s plausible.

I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand why people deny climate change, but it usually comes down to a few basic things: 1. Group membership. 2. Seeing is believing, and not having been impacted yet. 3. Having been impacted, but unwilling to admit it due to embarrassment/sunk cost fallacy. Honestly I expect that after this summer most people in cohort 2 will move to cohort 3.

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