Scientific American: "Denial" Helps Us Cope with Our Collective Climate Grief

When I was twelve, growing up in the North of England, I used to hang out in both my Dad’s greenhouse and the school greenhouse, along with all the tomato plants we grew. It wasn’t an image, it was reality, and it was great – warmth, yummy tomatoes, cutting English language classes and the like. Poor lady seems to have had a sh!t childhood and wants to inflict it on any moron that will listen.

The point of this is that nobody accepted eugenics until some minor psychiatrist “proved”it. That was the death warrant for many people. Eugenics took about 25 to 40 years to be disproved, although prominent eugenicists did move into the IPCC and UN. Can’t remember their names at the moment.
So these warmists are following that pattern, trying to use the embarrassing Lewandowsky and now these numpty to prove skeptics are crazy. Why? Because their wild science is in claim has proved invalid.
Only this is the internet age where google can summon up crazy ideas in 0.2 of a second. Skeptic voices can be heard in the same 0.2 seconds and the absurd warmist claims disproved at about the same rate.
People only have to look out the window while driving to work to see that these disasters have not happened.

Psychological projection: from wiki…
is a theory in psychology in which humans defend themselves against their own unconscious impulses or qualities (both positive and negative) by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others. For example, a person who is habitually rude may constantly accuse other people of being rude. It incorporates blame shifting.
I think the psychosis lies within the author at Scientific American.

Part of the grief is the failure to have kooky CAGW ideas accepted by the general population even after what can only be considered massive support by a compliant and alarmist media. No one could have asked for more media support, so consistently and so unswervingly biased in favour of one interpretation of the available facts. The coverage and advantage has been as great as the pro-war propaganda during recent major wars. Perhaps people forget there were active pacifist campaigns with breathing space throughout the wars. Where are the pages of print devoted to common sense and factual presentations? I leave further analysis to the social historians.
And after all that agit-prop, and even given the appalling lack of scientific education received by the ordinary citizen, the idea that the world is about to roast because of the combustion of fuel is just not believable to the ordinary citizen.
Finding something unbelievable is not the same as ‘denial of a truth’. When something is not true to begin with like the C part of CAGW, failing to believe it does not constitute denial. In order for something to be proven true, it is axiomatic that one has to prove it is not ‘something else’. In the case of climate, the requirement is to prove it is not natural variability that provides the vague correlations underwriting the ‘human CO2’ claims. Geological history provides a power case against the alarmist narrative.
As anyone with hearing knows, the ‘melting of Arctic ice’ has the most caché these days. There is so little else that resembles the bogeymen of yesteryear the AGW enthusiasts have been reduced to crying, ‘look at that Arctic Ice retreat’. That’s it! No one can find the hidden heat, no one can find the higher temperatures that are supposed to be cruising up, no one can mention the Sahara Desert any more because it is shrinking rapidly, no one can point to anything that carries enough weight with general public to overturn their common sense and considerable experience. Once the Arctic ice starts expanding again, even that straw will slip from their alarming grasp.
The surprise for the ‘climate scientist community’ is that the masses of half-educated people supposedly as dumb as a bag of hammers compared with their ‘titled and knowing’ credentials can see through the hype like a wet T-shirt on a Florida beach. The only thing unusual about Tropical Storm Sandy was the position of the moon during the surge. The only thing unusual about Hurricane Katrina was the reaction (or lack of it) by Cheney’s minions who want to run a social experiment to see what happens during a city-wide disaster if you wall them off and don’t lift a finger to help. Not much, it turns out.
The general population is smarter and more resilient, more perspicacious and more level-headed than the average CAGW alarmist. That is bound to result in a lot of grief for the true GW believers. The climate faithful are simply in denial that so many people can be so clever as to see through their cries of “Wolf! Wolf!” The public is beginning to notice that a lot of the sheep are gone, and it is the climate shepherds that are stealing them. There is no denying that.

Katrina. And nothing since.

“So why weren’t we coming together to nip this in the bud? Why were we failing to embrace what appeared to be so obvious?”
. . Just because I’m easy . . You must at least generate the appearance that the politicos and celebrities pushing such a supposed crisis are making significant sacrifices themselves. (Only hypocritical posers/fakers would even need to be told something so blatantly obvious to normal folks, you dorky shill.)
Yer welcome.

When I was 12, workers unloading a truck at an AFB near where I lived dropped a crate of nitroglycerin near a bunker to where it was to be moved. The crate blew a huge hole in the ground as well as blowing out windows of large buildings 20 miles away. Early each morning for years afterward large spider-like trucks carried large metal crates with radioactive warning emblems away from what had been revealed as a nuclear weapons storage facility. It was a reminder that those drills we endured just four years before, during which we sat under our desk or marched to the chapel, were an exercise in futility; I lived at ground zero and there was nowhere to hide if the bombs dropped from the sky. Fortunately, none every did.
About five years later, the OPEC shut off our oil supply and the price of gasoline at the pump rose from about $0.30/gal to about a buck. Meanwhile, scientists were telling us that the world’s oil supply was limited and that the last drop of oil would be pumped out in about 30 years.
If that news wasn’t bad enough, scientists were telling us that we were overdue for an ice age.
Not long after that, though, we discovered there was a hole in the ozone layer caused by releasing CFCs into the atmosphere. If acid rain didn’t kills us first, a wicked sunburn and skin cancer would. And we’d run out of food to feed the exploding population. We’re going to starve if drugs, alcohol and tobacco doesn’t kill us first.
Now the climate is changing. Extreme weather is going to kills us all.
After a lifetime of being told scary stories, it’s hard to be scared anymore. Because
It’s 1, 2, 3, what are we fighting for,
Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn,
Next stop is VietNam.
And it’s 5, 6, 7, open up the pealy gates,
Ain’t got time to wonder why,
Whoopee we’re all gonna die.