New York Times: In any debate over climate change, conventional wisdom holds that there is no reflex more absurd than invoking the local weather. And yet this year’s wild weather fluctuations seem to have motivated people on both sides of the issue to stick a finger in the air and declare the matter resolved – in their favor. “Within psychology, it’s called motivated reasoning, or the confirmation bias,” explained Anthony Leiserowitz, the director of the Project on Climate Change Communication …