Posted on 01/14/2019 12:35:19 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
There are many areas of science and medicine that stimulate reasonable differences of opinion and even controversy. What exactly is dark matter made of? Whose cut-offs for normal blood pressure are the best ones to follow? Is psychoanalytic psychotherapy an evidence-based treatment?
But there are also many points that are clear and not subject to legitimate debate. We can affirm without doubt that anthropogenic climate change is a real phenomenon that is already apparent and will, if not mitigated, cause terrible suffering and destruction before this century is over.
That a few misguided politicians believe climate change predictions are exaggerated or even fabricated is lamentable. But perhaps more puzzling is the lack of alarm among the general public.
Organizations like Climate Psychiatry Alliance and Climate Psychology Alliance have been formed not only to point out the severe consequences of climate change for emotional and behavioral health but also to lend expertise in determining how best to overcome climate change denial. For these and similar organizations, climate change denial constitutes an emergency that demands immediate attention. We need urgent attention to developing and implementing the best practices for overcoming public despair and inaction and increasing the motivation to demand large-scale climate change mitigation action.
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I'd like one of them to look me in the face and tell me that if NOTHING is done then there will never be another cooling period or another ice age. THEY ARE CLIMATE CYCLE DENIERS.
And how many times have these climate change enablers presented us with a ten year timeline that if we don't do something RIGHT NOW, then the end will come?
To many times to count.
According to the Gore himself, New York City would be under 20 feet of water by now. But is anybody in the media calling him on his bulls*t? No.
Instead of admitting they are wrong, they just double-down and put out another ten year end-of-earth-as-we-know-it timeline that comes and goes without suffering any credibility consequences.
The authors of this piece claim it is alarming the the public is not more motivated and in fear of the future to make them get off their duffs and change their lifestyles to accommodate the phony predictions of the climate change wackos.
Gee, I wonder why that is? Crying wolf for decades about climate disaster that never happens is not the best way to engender confidence with the public.
Just because we have 50 years of history of these people exaggerating and fabricating claims doesn't mean they are doing it now.
< /sarc>
Fine, I’ve got a muzzle for them. Comes with small projectiles.
anthropogenic climate change is a real phenomenon
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The fascists speak. Amazing.
If you have 10 kids swimming in a pool and one of them pees in the pool there is a rise in the pool level.
But between the liquid that they will remove from the pool and evaporation there will probably be a net loss.
This is pretty much what human caused climate change is. There are not enough of us to change the climate EVEN IF WE WANTED TO DO SO.
We simply do not have the power. Heck, we can not even make it rain with any certainty which is something we sort of know how to do.
And that is over looking the fact that not one of these people who want to "fix" the climate can tell me what they want to fix it at. What is the goal? They don't know and unless you know what your goal is you can not begin to know what you should do to try to reach that goal.
If the climate is going to change, and it does, we are far better off thinking of how we would adapt to the climate rather then trying to adjust the climate.
Adapt is something we actually can do.
I've read of some scientists wanting to seed the atmosphere with "reflectors" so that the earth would cool because there would be less sunlight to heat things up.
I'd think THAT would be immensely stupid.
And dangerous.
They probably could not cause a return to planet snowball but why take the chance?
A few years back they were going to spread soot over all the snow packs so they would melt faster.
That was back when it was "the next ice age" they were worried about.
Some ideas are *so* stupid, only an intellectual could possibly believe them.
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