Owen

The view of reality you get from X I think is very different than if you just walk down the street and talk to people or what you see in your personal life or at work or any of that.

It's very different than what you see online.

People don't behave the same way and they probably don't even have the same views.

And certainly they're probably not at the same level of political knowledge and following and all of that.

So I think X and all social media, I think, can give you a very distorted view of reality and make you think differently.

That something is a much bigger issue than it is or that people really care about something when maybe some few people do, but not that many.

It's just this vocal minority that makes it seem like something is the consensus view.

And they may be very intentionally trying to create that fake consensus view.

So I think it's all brilliant.

I think he's spot on.

I certainly can.

So there's a new study that CO2 is effectively negligible as an explanatory climate change factor since 2000.

There's a new regression analysis that shows natural changes in cloud albedo, which I think albedo is like how much sun is reflected off the ice and off the clouds.

Absorbed shortwave forcing and solar activity drive climate change since 2000, not CO2.

Anthropogenic, meaning from people, CO2 has almost no explanatory power as a causal factor.

And this independent researcher, Dai Ato,

From Japan, use global temperature, humidity, solar, and albedo data.

And it reaffirms conclusions from prior works like

I forget, I can't pronounce this name.

It's a Greek name, Koutsouianis in 2024 and Sun et al in 2023.