I’m in my 30s and remember the weather being very different in my childhood… winter never had 30 degree differences between yesterday and today like we had this past week. Was nearly 60 degrees one day and then we got 6+ inches of snow the next day.

Yet they refuse to see that climate change is what is causing this change.

If they accept climate change, it means they have to acknowledge that their actions helped cause this and it means they need to change their behavior. People aren't good at either but most Boomers especially suck at self-reflection.

The boomers in my life are starting to come around with it but they believe and combination of

1. it's not man made
2. it won't be as bad as people say/we can't know the future
3. green tech like electric vehicles are too expensive

The first two are frustrating but don't really matter if we can engineer our way out of three. My dad got solar panels because they would pay for themselves eventually. I'm not saying we can just green tech our way out of the climate crisis but if green tech gets good enough it will go a LONG way

These are just anecdotes from interacting with my family. Your mileage may vary

It's not that climate change is causing this change of climate. The change of climate is climate change. That's why it's ridiculous for someone to say "Oh, the climate's changing. But it isn't climate change!"

Oh no, it must be those pesky democrats and their secret government weather control /s. Trying to convince people to believe in climate change so they can... checks notes... promote self-sufficiency through renewable energy...

What's causing it is primarily greenhouse gasses along with several other compounding factors (deforestation, concrete and asphalt coverage, melting ice caps, etc.).

So yes, human-induced. No one would run a gas-powered lawnmower indoors, but somehow they believe that billions of people driving outside every day is totally fine?

I've never heard anyone say that about climate change, really.

Those that agree with facts know it's a thing and really would love to see it go, but what can we do? We're not politicians, we're not rich, we're not powerful.

We're separating our plastics and paper and what not, we try to avoid the car, we use public transportation, bicycles.... But what are we supposed to do? We cannot fix this, er cannot stop this.

Just saying "boomers don't care" is a bullshit statement. In not a boomer, but I know enough of them. Just saying that it's all the boomers fault is easy enough but it won't solve anything.

Start at least blaming politicians and the rich. They're the ones that got us here, they're the ones that keep is here

My mother switched from "it's not real" to "it's real, but we aren't causing it"

There is no winning here

Or, speaking as someone right on the cusp of boomers / gen x, we acknowledged and cared about it, but there wasn't enough support for it to allow us to do anything beyond rambling and sounding like a bunch of fanatical (^('s.

You mean, the current consequences? 😂

Yeah but in the 70s basically everything was carcinogenic, even the air.

If you were stressed about that, you'd just smoke a cigarette.

Stop it about boomers. Some boomers, yes, but also some GenX and millenials.

Thank you - beat me to saying this. (And Gen Z too)

You worded that very well. I don't like people calling out generations like this but struggle on making a well formed reply.

Also it's odd that they lack the understanding that one day their generation will be the old one and they will be subject to blame. Unless people just stop doing it!

class war hiding inder generation tensions again

97% was reported by earlier small surveys, but I think the most rigorous and widely reported survey of scientists was Harris Interactive in 2007.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus_on_climate_change#2005%E2%80%932009

That was followed up in 2010 by a survey of specifically climate scientists, whom hit 97-98%.

The 'concensus' has been constantly challenged in conservative media and circles so there have been many such surveys / meta-analyses continuing over the years and it's been hitting 100% for the last several years. If any idiot ever parrots "science doesn't work on concensus" my usually response is something like, "no it doesn't, but when an entire field of scientists have determined a theory to have vast evidence-based backing its considered settled. The only thing that would change that is significant contradictory data being presented, yet instead every year we're measuring huge volumes of data that confirm the concensus."

The rest believe it too, but their papers are deliberately written in such a way that journalists can misinterpret them.

Someone's arse. The irony if it being another social media post is awesome

Melbourne scores 5/10 in a single day, no effort involved lol

Stupid sexy M&M's.

For being a science meme community, it's a place people can vent about things that they can't vent about elsewhere. We can understand psychological phenomena, but still be personally frustrated by it.

Though I do wish this post weren't targeted toward Boomers. Younger people buy into this type of thing, too.

Boomer is a state of mind