As a conservative in college (more on my background in my introductory post), and an introvert who would rarely speak up in class, I can clearly recall one moment when I did raise my hand to make a point, and it’s not a proud memory. It’s not that I got a bad response – on the contrary, I received appreciative comments from my fellow conservative classmates (I went to Texas A&M and am glad I did). But my present self wishes I’d have shut up. I don’t remember much about the lecture or who the professor was, but I do remember they showed a slide showing CO2 emissions alongside global temperature rise. I had just watched some climate-change-skeptical “documentary” which “debunked” one such chart by claiming to point out that CO2 rise lagged the temperature rise, and that this proved the rise in CO2 wasn’t the cause.
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As a conservative in college (more on my background in my introductory post), and an introvert who would rarely speak up in class, I can clearly recall one moment when I did raise my hand to make a point, and it’s not a proud memory. It’s not that I got a bad response – on the contrary, I received appreciative comments from my fellow conservative classmates (I went to Texas A&M and am glad I did). But my present self wishes I’d have shut up. I don’t remember much about the lecture or who the professor was, but I do remember they showed a slide showing CO2 emissions alongside global temperature rise. I had just watched some climate-change-skeptical “documentary” which “debunked” one such chart by claiming to point out that CO2 rise lagged the temperature rise, and that this proved the rise in CO2 wasn’t the cause.