Is there a contest, one with fabulous prizes, for the climate change meme that represents its author as the biggest imbecile? If so, perhaps we have a winner here. If Al Gore actually does own oceanfront property, with an understanding …
Category: Climate Change
Wealthy People Will Skate Through Environmental Collapse
There is a point to be made here, though it’s obscured by the ridiculous use of “nobody” and “everyone.” We are surrounded by people whose life work is improving conditions for each resident of this planet–now, and for generations to …
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Big Oil Loves Climate Denier Memes
It would be interesting to know where this meme came from. An ultra-right-wing think tank? Some random QAnoner? In any case, the fossil fuel industry loves crazy s*** like this. They may not be creating it themselves, but they certainly …
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Understanding Climate Science, Or At Least Trying To
A reader sent me this and adds, “…but the global warming?” I’m not sure cherry-picking one anomalous temperature reading at one point on the globe at one moment in time undermines a theory. Maybe you see science differently than the …
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Achieving CO2 Reduction Targets
Here’s a brief article explaining why CO2 emissions actually rose in 2022, and what’s being done to turn this around, based on taking more precise measurements.
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Understanding Climate Denialism
There is a great deal of truth here, but the disinformation campaigns would have been dismissed with a round jeer if we didn’t have so many “ignorant yokels.” This, from Isaac Asimov in 1980: There is a cult of ignorance …
We’re Not Damaging the Planet Per Se
A reader notes: George Carlin does a bit about how we are told we are ruining our planet. It’s on Youtube if you can find it, I think it’s hysterical along with making a lot of sense. Yes. See below. …
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Misplaced Concerns
Here’s another good one that gets at our monumental disregard for the long-term environmental destruction that accompanies climate change.
Climate Deniers and the “Straw Man” Fallacy
From Wikipedia: A straw man is a form of argument and an informal fallacy of having the impression of refuting an argument, whereas the real subject of the argument was not addressed or refuted, but instead replaced with a false …
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Can We Cooperate?
A friend asked me the other day what I thought would be required to bring humankind together in a concerted effort to deal with the impending climate catastrophe. It’s a big question. One has to think that such an event …
