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> does anyone sane still deny climate change? Absolutely, however all the significant examples I know of are making a rationalisation to publicly deny AGW for
by defrost 9mo ago
> does anyone sane still deny climate change?
Absolutely, however all the significant examples I know of are making a rationalisation to publicly deny AGW for material gain while often privately accepting the physics, down playing the publicly global consequences and focusing on the probable lack of meaningful personal consequences.
- conception 9mo agoOn this point - folks may forget that certain nation states with scrupulous ties to other major world powers cough Russia cough plan to benefit tremendously from climate change by opening northern trade routes. It’d be troubling if such a country had an impressively widespread propaganda and asset network across the globe.
- wolvoleo 9mo agoTrue, in fact the Soviets even had a plan to force this to happen: https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-soviet-scientist-who-dreamed-of-melting-the-arctic-with-a-55-mile-dam/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-soviet-scientist-who-dre...
- conception 9mo agoWeird how control of Ukraine and Greenland play into this as well. Big coincidence there, right?
- wolvoleo 9mo agoI don't see the benefit of Ukraine there, it has no access to the northern seas. And with Greenland the only threat is Trump. But that Soviet plan revolved around damming off the Bering Strait which would never have worked.