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Climate Craziness (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
 

Ok, so I keep getting gaslighted by people around me (USA) when I comment how crazy the weather is, and how we've never had it like this, and they say things like "oh, you just notice it more now because you're older" or "the weathers always done this"

But I don't think it's normal for weather to be -10 degrees F with snow, and then 3 days later 75 degrees F! That seems insane to me!

Unless I'm wrong and we really have had this insane type of weather "forever". But it doesn't feel like it.

the Question: Am I crazy, or right, and is there proof?

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[–] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

You aren't crazy, the weather is fucked. The proof is in min and max temps over the course of decades. You can also pull up precipitation/snow records over decades as well. A quick google search would find you tons of proof.

People who are climate change deniers, or just willfully ignorant, will deny there is a problem, and keep denying it until their home or workplace gets swallowed up in a climate calamity. Of those, there will be a percentage that doubles down on their bullshit even after being personally bitch slapped by the weather and becoming a statistic.

Stop engaging these people; it's exhausting. I'm dating someone like this. We will discuss an issue, have a difference in ideology, then I will find and present data and proof that back up the things I am claiming, and my fiance will just double down on the bullshit to the point that it's transcended to gaslighting.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

Of those, there will be a percentage that doubles down on their bullshit even after being personally bitch slapped by the weather and becoming a statistic.

There were covid deniers who, while diagnosed and hospitalized with covid, literally used their last breaths to deny covid's existence.

[–] jabeez@lemmy.today 4 points 9 hours ago

|Stop engaging these people

You're literally engaged to one? How??