International surveys suggest people increasingly agree the climate is changing and humans are the cause. One reading of this is that people have adopted the scientific point of view. Based on a sample of 28 ethnographic cases we argue that this conclusion might be premature. Communities merge scientific explanations with local knowledge in hybrid ways. This is possible because both discourses blame humans as the cause of the changes they observe. However, the specific factors or agents blamed differ in each case. Whereas scientists identify carbon dioxide producers in particular world regions, indigenous communities often blame themselves, since, in many lay ontologies, the weather is typically perceived as a local phenomenon, which rewards and punishes people for their actions. Thus, while survey results show approval of the scientific view, this agreement is often understood differently and leads to diverging ways of allocating meaning about humans and the weather.

国际调查显示，人们越来越同意气候在变化，而人为原因。对此的一种解读是，人们已经采用了科学的观点。基于28个民族志案例的样本，我们认为该结论可能为时过早。社区以混合方式将科学解释与当地知识融合在一起。之所以可行，是因为两种话语都将人类归咎于人类所观察到的变化。但是，在每种情况下，应归咎于具体因素或因素。尽管科学家们在特定的世界地区发现了二氧化碳的生产者，但土著社区经常自责，因为在许多现有的本体论中，天气通常被认为是一种局部现象，这种行为会奖励和惩罚人们的行为。因此，虽然调查结果表明了科学观点的认可，