Politics and the Weather

another repost, paraphrasing here:

Political and cultural beliefs have more to do with perceptions of recent temperature than any other factor:

Individualists, who often object to environmental regulations as an infringement on their freedoms, tended to think the temperatures hadn’t gone up in their area, regardless of whether they had. Strong egalitarians, in contrast, tended to believe the temperatures had gone up.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/07/ideology-clouds-how-we-perceive-the-temperatures/