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Isolated Low Temps May Reassure Climate Skeptics

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Scientific American

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🗓️ 26 December 2016

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Areas of the country that have experienced record low temperatures since 2005 happen to be home to many global warming deniers. And researchers theorize there may be a connection. Christopher Intagliata reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Taliatta.

0:39.1

Global warming deniers love to point to colder snow as evidence against climate change,

0:44.8

like Oklahoma Senator James Inhoff.

0:47.4

Remember last year when he tossed a snowball in Congress?

0:50.3

You know what this is? It's a snowball.

0:53.6

And that's just from outside here. So it's very, very cold out, very unseasonal. So here, Mr. President, catch this.

1:01.2

With that, he offhandedly disproved decades of climate science, to some people at least. But such cold-influenced denial may be playing out across the U.S., in particular in Appalachia and the South,

1:13.8

because it turns out those areas have had lots of record low temperatures in the last 12 years,

1:19.4

and they're also, by and large, the same parts of the country that have high numbers of global warming skeptics.

1:25.7

So researchers have a theory that personal experience with

1:28.6

cold snaps could be trumping scientific facts. The analysis is in the proceedings of the National

1:34.5

Academy of Sciences. Study author Robert Kaufman, an environmental scientist at Boston University,

1:41.1

says the way around this might be to put climate data in terms people understand,

1:46.5

money.

1:47.1

We should propose a simple bet to climate skeptics, and that is, for every new record high

1:54.4

temperature at a weather station, you pay us a dollar, and for every new record low temperature, we'll pay you a dollar.

2:03.4

Or he says, think of climate change as a slot machine, especially with the president-elect.

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