Atmospheric Science, the weather, and global warming

[Alex]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

The the relatively educated, certainly. To the uneducated masses, though, knowing that the movie is about global warming, and knowing that there were lots of big hurricanes recently, the conclusion most easily reached is that global warming is causing these big hurricanes now.

So who is to blame for stupid people jumping to conclusions? And why aren't they educated. All they need to do is take 90 minutes before just assuming that their preferred pundit will tell them the truth about how awful/wonderful it is.

Atmospheric scientists have been spending the last 15 years trying to "educate" people on what they believe is happening and what it may mean. It's their fault that the idiots of the world prefer to get their opinions from talk radio and network political dramas?