tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6803306.post8306920491501485360..comments2023-10-19T05:09:40.165-07:00Comments on Backseat driving: Response to Michael Tobis: everyone knows the climate's gone screwy, so let's use itBrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09301230860904555513noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6803306.post-31918067100491026612010-07-31T08:27:31.750-07:002010-07-31T08:27:31.750-07:00> Anyone over the age of 30 can remember a mode...> Anyone over the age of 30 can remember a modestly different climate in the past<br /><br />Doesn't that statement go a bit too far? I'm well over 30 and it's not true for me. The main sense in which I remember a "modestly different climate in the past" is that the weather was more mild when I lived in Northern California than it is now that I've moved to Manhattan. You personally might "feel it in your bones that the climate's gone screwy", but you can't "latch onto" that sense in people who don't have it. <br /><br />One can't think weather has "gone screwy" without having forgotten the ways it's seemed "screwy" in the past. Salience and recency bias aren't strong hooks to hang that hat on.<br /><br />In short, consider me a counterexample.Glenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14661650090485723755noreply@blogger.com