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The facts are a keystroke away, plain as day, shouted for years upon deaf ears. People who ask you to Google for them these answers aren't arguing in good fait
by lifeformed 8y ago
The facts are a keystroke away, plain as day, shouted for years upon deaf ears. People who ask you to Google for them these answers aren't arguing in good faith. There's nothing left to debate, the details were figured out a long time ago.
At this point, I'm convinced that there are zero climate skeptics who really want to find answers; it's all willful ignorance or malice. It's comically stupid how the obvious truth is met with so much resistance. The desire to preserve the status quo is the strongest force in civilization.
On one side you have 99.9% of scientists saying that we're screwed. On the other side you have 0.1% of scientists paid by oil megacorp lobbyists saying it's fine. Hmm... what should one conclude?
On one hand you have politicians and the ultrarich saying everything is okay. on the other hand, the same politicians and rich people are quietly buying safe houses and building seawalls and preparing for doomsday. Oh and the military is training for and developing technologies to deal with the new scenarios. Hmm... what could it mean?
We're boiling alive fast enough that we can't handle it, but slow enough that we won't do anything about it. The last two people on earth are going to die arguing about why it's so hot.
- nonbel 8y agoIt isn't about facts or "truth" or "99.9% of scientists saying" we are screwed. That isn't how science/engineering works, its how politics works. Perhaps that is why there is difficulty communicating across the gap. Do you have a source for that last one by the way (99.9 % of scientists saying we are screwed)?
- lifeformed 8y agoInfo: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0270467617707079?journalCode=bsta https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/027046761770707... And the paper itself: https://www.dropbox.com/s/j0roqfsrx4tz4nd/Powell-2015.pdf?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/j0roqfsrx4tz4nd/Powell-2015.pdf?dl...
- nonbel 8y agoCan you quote the part of the paper where you think it claims "99.9% of scientists [are] saying that we're screwed." I just looked and didn't see it.