I’ve got a lot of conservative friends, of course. And the latest I hear from a number of them is on climate change, and it goes like this: “Old farmers are all saying that the weather just cycles, and always has. And nobody watches the weather like farmers.” (This primarily from rural friends in Utah and Colorado.)
Nobody watches like farmers. Except, of course, climate scientists, who watch it way more closely, over way longer time periods, and in way greater detail.
Why do we have this incredible desire to trust homespun wisdom, when (most, I admit, not all…but hugely most) science is heading the entirely other direction?
