This is by far the most common instances of it being brought up in my real life (e.g. “Did you hear about AOC’s environut supporter that thinks we need to start eating babies? What a whack job!”)
Living in Central Texas most of my life but not all, I’ll say as a general rule of thumb we never cool off until the end of October.
Texas is always as long as I remember in a semi drought or full on drought until about every 4 to 5 years we have torrential flooding which fills up the near empty lakes and flushes the rivers out.
There is so many more people here and more concrete, glass, car exhaust. The developers always clear cut for new developments and add smaller trees.
Not a lot has changed in that aspect. I believe as the cities and states become more crowded the devastation frm hurricanes, tornados and wildfires will become even more catastrophic due to increased population due to economic refugees and other asylum refugees fleeing from other parts of the world.
I was struck by the severe contrasts between these two adjacent posts:
It doesn’t come up. It’s not really conversation material among the people I am around on a regular basis.
The AOC town hall eating-babies stunt was from a pro-Trump group, it turns out:
No, because dogs can’t talk.
I live in a very backwards town in Appalachia where the opinion on global warming is bound to be far from unanimous. People will talk about how crazy the weather is and I wonder if thats a roundabout way of talking about climate change without inviting an argument about conspiracy theories and media hysteria.
I think about the environment a lot and I think a lot of my peers do to but it’s like we’re kinda closeted.
It is rather striking, isn’t it?
No, it’s never come up that I can recall.
I retired recently and have less social contact now, but I don’t remember ever talking about it with my co-workers at lunches/happy-hours/etc. We just finished a long RV trip to visit and meet some new relatives “up nawth”, and despite hosting dinner companions almost every night, the subject never came up once.
I honestly don’t think I’ve ever heard it discussed in my day-to-day activities.
Rarely comes up as such. Even if there’s reference to unusual weather as it might apply to climate change it’s some offhand ‘they say it’s because of climate change’ and response ‘hmm, yeah I guess’. It really isn’t separate from general weather small talk.
It could also be generational to some degree. In real life I try to avoid political talk outside nuclear family. The people I know who just can’t stop themselves trying to talk politics in my age range (of already grown kids) are usually worked up more about something else (Trump in general +/-, I know people in both categories; what a bunch of idiots conservatives/liberals are in general; race and poverty; etc).