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Poor things.
Meanwhile, the reality-based community realises it's a very challenging prospect, but one we can handle if we really put our minds to it, so we'd better just bloody well get on with it.
Surveys indicate that the latter are the larger group, if that's any help to you.
deniers are more amusing that IS for sure
just the other week I saw one still posting about CO2 being a "trace gas"
I sh1t you not
I genuinely thought this strand of blog science was binned even by the most committed blog scientist
but it seems deniers are the gift that keeps on giving
I'm watching the campaign for president and watching Republicans abandon all their principles in order accept Trump who's as sleazy and cheating as they come, that's not just hyperbole,
I mean the race is neck and neck and I'm wondering how can that be. It's genuinely horrifying.
I keep wondering why in 1970, ... 1980s, ... 1990s, ... 2000s no one could ever convincingly and emotionally connect with the down to Earth reality - A) climate science basics were well understood and settled. There were questions about details and uncertainties. C) Those uncertainties were directly related to the speed of changes on Earth. Nothing more. The direction was settled by simple inescapable physics. Oceans ARE going to rise by feet, then meters. The atmosphere IS going to contain more heat and moisture and greater tendency towards chaotic and extreme behavior. Rain storms WERE going to become torrential events - along with a shifting of global rain patterns. Melting of the Arctic was going to create who knows what all havoc with ocean and atmospheric circulation patterns, not to mention biological mingling. All these things were certain. It was the speed that was in question. If we acted and cut back, we would by ourselves time to learn, adapt and mitigate. But, we as a society chose the fast lane.
Then still, even with the tempo of current weather events and their impacts, they cling to nonsense. Willful ignorance.
John Cook explains what's going on in this video from our Denial101x MOOC:
Vocal Minority
https://youtu.be/uKWDGlBKIGc