[rlmorel]

"..."Public opinion and awareness has really shifted on this. And so, there is this interesting disconnect between public awareness, which people are mostly now convinced that climate change is happening. They're seeing the impact in their lives or seeing their insurance bills go up versus the, you know, the political leadership and sometimes the disinformation campaigns that go on around this," Williams said..."

They have been brutally and forcefully brainwashing children all through K-12 and higher education now for decades beginning in the 1990's.

They have been bent on turning them into climate nags who would admonish their parents for some activity like grilling with charcoal or buying meat from cattle which produce methane, never mind driving the family car which has an internal combustion engine.

This is not an accident.

On the good side, there are many of those brainwashed who have grown fully into adulthood who have heard for decades that the oceans are rising and the world is ending, who after decades of hearing this, looked around and noticed the oceans haven't risen and the world hasn't ended. Those people, even the brainwashed ones, are increasingly accepting they have been sold a bill of goods.

So, in that sense, there is hope.

Unlike this complete loser of an author who finds an "interesting" disconnect in public awareness on climate change, what I find "interesting" is that my whole life, we universally and without exception ridiculed the image of people walking up and down a street wearing a sandwich board "The World Is Ending".

We would sometimes feel pity for them, and even ridicule them. Nobody took them seriously. Nobody. Before the Internet, they became one of the first lasting "memes" that has survived even until this day, as evidenced by this cartoon below:

I found this image below interesting, because here, there was a real threat from Y2K and computer programs, and Time had this on the cover of one of their issues:

What I found interesting is that Time Magazine, one of the most ardent purveyors of the climate hoax, presented that image on the cover of their magazine with respect to Y2K.

(As an aside, even people on this very forum still say it was a scam, but nearly EVERY single IT person I know, and I was one of them, working for over a year or two in advance, participating in weekly meetings with up to forty people or more, looking at vulnerabilities, identifying them, testing to see if they would fail, and implementing changes in software to remediate it. When it came, so many people had worked on it that it was anti-climax because the world didn't go dark. People who think Y2K was a scam are bald-faced idiots who don't know what they are talking about.)

The point is, many of us have looked at the last 30-40 years of these people peddling climate alarmism, saying things like the world is going to end in X years if nothing is done, in exactly the same light that our parents and grandparents looked at those oddballs wearing the sandwich boards saying the world is going to end.

It is hard to maintain credibility when you keep insisting that the world is going to end in X years, and in X years, nothing happens. So they bump it out another X years, saying it will end then. And in X years still nothing happens.

But hey. Suckers are born every minute.

[kiryandil]

(As an aside, even people on this very forum still say it was a scam, but nearly EVERY single IT person I know, and I was one of them, working for over a year or two in advance, participating in weekly meetings with up to forty people or more, looking at vulnerabilities, identifying them, testing to see if they would fail, and implementing changes in software to remediate it. When it came, so many people had worked on it that it was anti-climax because the world didn't go dark. People who think Y2K was a scam are bald-faced idiots who don't know what they are talking about.)

We worked on the conversion for two and a half years.

And there WAS a danger.

[kiryandil]

I just like to point out that it’s fortunate that India and China are on another planet whose atmosphere doesn’t interact with ours here in the Americas.

[kiryandil]

Excellent post, BTW! :)

[qaz123]

I guess the articles about ice breaking ships getting stuck in ice that isn’t supposed to be there. Where sometimes the rescue ship also gets stuck.

All lies. All fiction.

Wisconsin, for me at least, would be a place I’d really love to live if it weren’t for Madison and Milwaukee.

As a Wisconsinite commented to me….Wisconsin would be redder than Wyoming if it weren’t for Madison & Milwaukee.

[Tell It Right]

Agreed. I too worked some Y2K stuff.

Y2K was very real. There were many things that'd break and at the very least seriously inconvenience us, perhaps throw us a major curve ball if not fixed. I worked on overnight bank file processing. Yep, that'd hit us hard if that went down for a day or two.

But on the other hand, Y2K was very much overhyped too. Y2K wasn't going to accidentally launch nuclear weapons or make elevator brakes fail, etc. Fear porn sold then just like it does now. I don't know how much govt money was used to help fix Y2K (which really means grift money to pretend to help), but today's warmageddon money and regulations are off the charts.

Today you can't move up in govt (including academia) or in a private entity that receives govt money unless you bow to the warmageddon cult Gore and kiss the hockey stick graph.

[SuperLuminal]

Amen...

"... children all through K-12 and higher education now for decades beginning in the 1990's."

I would only posit that the indoctrination began post busing (1970s), once the government had the children transfered far from locally-controlled schools...

It was an important step in the creation of a docile peasantry instead of an independent citizenry...

It will take the abolishment of ALL government involvement in education, razing of ALL indoctrination centers, and returning the United States to the globes greatest education system based on neighborhood control...

It took several generations to reach this 3rd world Marxist level and it will take several generations to return the Nation to its former self...

[libertylover]

there was a real threat from Y2K and computer programs,

No. In the late 1990s I was tasked to write some software for a customer that neither I nor my boss was allowed to know who it was (we always assumed the CIA). I realized that the expected lifespan of the software would span across the Y2K boundary. I had to look up the Leap Year rules and Y2K was 2-3 layers deep into the rules, but I wrote the code to take them into account.

Software people realized well in advance that older programs might not take Y2K into account and so they were checked and appropriate updates made in most cases. Problems were minimal.

[xp38]