So stop saying it’s not.
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There’s been some flooding in Texas and Oklahoma. Some folks say “Definitely Climate Change.” Others say “Just A Big Storm”. Is it related to global warming? Yeah, probably. Can I prove it? Nope. I’m no meteorologist or climate scientist. In fact, I’m no scientist at all. I love science, don’t get me wrong. I’m fascinated by most disciplines and the objectivity with which true scientific exploration is carried out. The overwhelming majority of scientific evidence and scientists say humans are causing catastrophic changes to our planet. I trust them.
The overwhelming majority of scientific evidence and scientists say humans are causing catastrophic changes to our planet. I trust them.
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This isn’t going to be one of those posts that tries to convince you, The Climate Change Denier (CCD for short) that we are, in fact, responsible for what is happening here to our more and more extreme weather. Nope. That’s not what this is at all. I’m going a step further. You are a horrible person. Really. I said it and I mean it. You endorse human suffering on an apocalyptic scale.
I’m sure you are probably nice to the neighbors. You may give extra in the collection plate, pass out coats to the homeless and drop your change in the kettle at Christmas time. Maybe you volunteer at a school or an animal shelter too. Here’s the thing. It doesn’t matter. You are simply masking the truth. You are a horrible person.
How can I say such things? Partly because I’m tired of people feeling like every opinion is worthy of equal importance. Bullshit. Your opinion doesn’t matter if it flies in the face of established fact. A Climate Change Denier is just as bat shit crazy as a Flat Earther. You may as well say gravity is just a theory and the Holocaust didn’t happen. Stop. Listen instead of talk and maybe you’ll learn something.
How else can I say that? Here it is. Poor air quality, rising sea levels, soil acidification, mass extinctions, aquifer depletion and ecosystem collapses are the result of our arrogance and blindness to fact. Without a drastic change in behavior, we will witness all of these soon. Probably within my lifetime and definitely within my children’s. I know. You still aren’t convinced.
Poor air quality, rising sea levels, soil acidification, mass extinctions, aquifer depletion and ecosystem collapses are the result of our arrogance and blindness to fact.
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Here it is. Combine all of those things together and we will witness a post apocalyptic society unlike the worst Hollywood has imagined. We will have war, famine, pestilence, disease, homelessness and mass human migrations on an unimaginable scale. Developed countries will not be immune from the problems. Already California is suffering from a devastating drought. States are suing each other over water rights. Diseases are mutating and becoming untreatable. People are already dying and it’s going to get worse.
That’s why you are a horrible person. In spite of all of the evidence, you’ve played the ostrich and stuck your head in the sand. By ignoring reality, you’ve lent your implicit support to all of those issues. You’ve come out in favor of death and human suffering. You, my climate change denying friend, may as well walk around with a t-shirt on that proclaims your support of genocide. Maybe something like “I Heart Stalin!” Let me say this more clearly. In denying the terrible reality of the current state of our planet, you’ve endorsed human suffering on a global scale. You can pet all the puppies you want at the shelter. It doesn’t make you a better person.
Back to Texas. It’s tragic. I have friends there. To the best of my knowledge they are all safe and accounted for. Truthfully, I fear not only for them but for all of us. Sure, I can’t definitively say man made climate change is the cause of this particular set of circumstances. I can say with confidence however that without a full reversal in our current behavior we are all in for difficult times ahead. By all means though, continue drinking your bottled water and “rolling coal” in your truck. I won’t be holding back on the “I told you so’s” when the shit hits the fan.
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As a scientist I can only comment on what I know. And I know that GIEC and their friends do not publish the data they work on, they only send results to politicians. It is very unusual, usually every scientist publish their data (cryptography, nuclear science, medecine, fraud detection …).
The trick is in that situation no scientist will never disprove global warming. Surprising, aint it.
Why are we wasting our time on those who will never face reality? I would like to see you tackle the predicament of a culture that believes it is solution based when in fact it’s a predicament in itself.
“The overwhelming majority of scientific evidence and scientists say humans are causing catastrophic changes to our planet.”
NO. THEY. DON’T. And repeating lines like that is just more hyperbole and fear-mongering. And somehow this is supposed to help men to be good?
Man made Global Warming causing the end of civilization and catastrophic changes to the planet will go down as the biggest joke and boondoggle in the history of mankind.
“Is it related to global warming? Yeah, probably. Can I prove it? Nope. I’m no meteorologist or climate scientist. In fact, I’m no scientist at all.”
Not really a good platform to stand on when hysterically ranting at the rest of us, some of whom remain to be convinced of the case for MMGW, particularly how it does or does not affect weather systems, Shawn.
Doesnt do much for the credibility of your argument, I’m afraid. You might want to rethink this particular line of attack.
Humanity has a great track record of responding well to immediate threats. Sadly, it’s our inability–or perhaps unwillingness–to deal with these slow-moving, but more devastating threats that will be our downfall.
When it Rains it pours.
I am no scientist ….. blablabla …… but I know global warning is a fact …… blablabla …. genocide …. blablabla
I know because I trust in the science and the scientists whose job it is to monitor these things. Believing they are wrong is akin to not trusting 97% of the engineers in the world who believe a building will collapse.
You trust in the science that has had to falsify and flat out lie about data that was never gathered? You trust in the science that can’t predict the weather NEXT WEEK? The same science that has now found out that every single one of their computer models are WRONG? The same science that has STILL produced NO SPECIFIC EVIDENCE that MAN is responsible for what ecologists decades ago were calling “global cooling”? Fine, then that’s YOUR problem. But don’t you ever tell a REAL MAN what he can and cannot call PROPAGANDA or lie until you can show him… Read more »
There is no hope for you. CAPS LOCK MAKES IT TRUE ALL THE TIME! Ugh. Is there a facepalm button?
Isn’t it amazing that when something is ‘bad’, the PC police have no problem calling it “MANmade” but if it is something good, we use other words.
I’m not really sure what you are getting at here. This has nothing to do with the PC police and everything to do with saving thousands of lives.