"At the same time, about 1,200 miles away in California, Gibson's $14m home was being incinerated in the Palisades wildfire. In this and other respects, their discussion could be seen as prefiguring the entire 12 months. The loss of his house hadn't been confirmed at the time of the interview, but Gibson said his son had just sent him a video of my neighbourhood, and it's in flames. It looks like an inferno."
"According to World Weather Attribution, January's fires in California were made significantly more likely by climate breakdown. Factors such as the extreme lack of rainfall and stronger winds made such fires both more likely to happen and more intense than they would have been without human-caused global heating. Mel Gibson. Photograph: Albert L Ortega/REX/Shutterstock There's a widespread belief that people will wake up to climate breakdown when disasters affect them."
In January Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson dismissed climate science while, at the same time, Gibson's $14m Palisades home burned in a wildfire. World Weather Attribution concluded January's California fires were made significantly more likely and intense by human-caused climate breakdown, with extreme lack of rainfall and stronger winds contributing. Many people expect disasters to prompt belief changes, but disasters can provoke a doubling down of prior worldviews. Gibson disputed evolution, attacked the scientific method, questioned personal impact, and invoked a familiar denialist analogy about melting ice to dismiss climate concern.
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