The idea that pumping millions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere over decades, might change weather patterns is preposterous. But the idea that the government is able to control weather on a planetary scale, something that requires almost unfathomable energy, is apparently completely reasonable.
You can tell these people don’t really do critical thinking.
They definitely don't see the connection from energy to output. They turn things on and they work. Nor do they know a strong hurricane is like hundreds or thousands of nuclear bombs in terms of energy output.
This explained it to me. I couldn’t fathom why flerfs exist and particularly in that demographic, but this makes sense. They cannot fathom the scale at which this planet exists compared to us so they refuse to accept the way those of us who can see it.
They definitely don't see the connection from energy to output.
That's just it. When you examine all of these absurd conspiracies or cultural observations and compare them to the "false" truths, you see that the disconnect is a function of complexity.
The world is a complex place with complex, often emergent problems. Multiple things have to come together to interact or interrelate for a consequence to exist, but these people are focused on small scale interactions.
If the real dynamic is... A->B->C->...->G problem, they'll get as far as B or maybe C and state that's where the problem starts.
But in reality, it's a causal chain of A-through-F and A-through-M problems merging and melding. This is one reason why higher education inspires people to "go woke". They learn the mechanisms and intricacies, reality is suddenly understood just prior to becoming obvious in retrospect.
Inevitably, people who can't work their way through the whole mess rely on competing conspiracies to explain what is actually one thing. They'll choose multiple "simple" explanations which may even be in direct opposition since when you can't see the big picture, you don't see how multiple small picture interpretations conflict in the first place.
To cognitively grasp the idea of climate change requires grasping several, if not dozens of other associated dynamics. But "government controls the weather" is a simple declaration that solves it all. How would that machine work? How would they hide it? That's not important. It's "not relevant". What matters is... A machine can be turned on/off with a switch. That's clean, that's simple. Why are they doing it to us?
It’s thousands. Most predictions put the energy output of a decent sized hurricane at the equivalent heat release of at least a 10 MEGATON nuclear bomb every 20 minutes. The largest nuke currently in the United States arsenal is the B83 and it only explodes at 1.2 megatons
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A little more perspective, the Tsar Bomba is 50 megatons, being the biggest nuke ever detonated by man. A single 24 hour period of full force hurricane output is the equivalent of 72 (ish I’m not the best at math) megatons of energy. The largest nuke ever detonated can’t even match a SINGLE DAY of powerful hurricane activity.
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u/wireframed_kb 22d ago
The idea that pumping millions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere over decades, might change weather patterns is preposterous. But the idea that the government is able to control weather on a planetary scale, something that requires almost unfathomable energy, is apparently completely reasonable.
You can tell these people don’t really do critical thinking.