Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Willie Soon – Business Green author Leo Barasi is worried people still don’t want to act to save the planet, despite the utter defeat of “climate denial”.
2017 was the year climate denial died
Leo Barasi
27 December 2017
Reality has killed climate denial – but apathy will still condemn the world to dangerous global warming unless it is confronted, argues Leo Barasi
2017 has left climate deniers with nowhere to go. Merciless hurricanes, heatwaves, floods, and droughts swept the planet all year, along with impossible-sounding fires – in icy Greenland; and in California in December. All are an early taste of what life on a hotter world would be like. Public opinion recognises the link with climate change, with international polls showing that worries about global warming are now at record levels with vanishingly few people thinking it’s a hoax.
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Yet the climate war is far from over. While climate denial may have lost, there is another problem: climate apathy. Most people understand climate change is happening, but just don’t think about it much and don’t accept they should change their lives to deal with it. This matters because stopping dangerous climate change won’t be possible with only popular measures like replacing coal power stations with solar panels. There will have to be difficult changes too, like cutting emissions from flying and meat eating. So long as many people are apathetic, governments will avoid the hard changes that are also needed.
One long-standing reason for apathy is the way climate change often feels like a distant problem, something for polar bears and future generations. So it matters that climate change is now devastating places where emissions need to fall. Those of us who want faster action shouldn’t hold back from pointing out that this is what would become normal if emissions don’t fall.
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The death of climate denial is one of the most under-appreciated stories of 2017. When the climate deniers played their hand this year they found the world had left them behind. But climate apathy is proving more resilient than denial, and is stopping the world confronting what it will take to live up to its promise to stop dangerous warming. It will take more work to turn that apathy into action.
Read more (paywalled): https://www.businessgreen.com/bg/opinion/3023569/2017-was-the-year-climate-denial-died
I guess the kind of mind which can imagine that this year’s weather was the opening salvo of the coming climate apocalypse has no problem believing that everyone is convinced of the need for climate action, but nobody wants to act.
Just take one look at DC … and tell me there hasn’t been a huge Climate Change there.
The climategate files reveal that warmism is spin that gets close to being fraud, that the warmists are looking for ammunition, not truth, that they do not care whether the world is warming or cooling, do not care whether humans are causing it or not, but are just looking for mud they can throw at western civilization.
But I cannot find a good standard source and standard torrent for the climategate files and analysis of these files. It really needs to be all wrapped up in a single standard html tree with the climategate files in browsable form, analysis of the data linking to that browsable form, as a big bundle of files in a torrent, so that everyone can learn the truth, and also pocket the evidence supporting that truth and the anaylysis of the evidence on their own computer.
Climate denial … a phrase invented by those who misrepresent the state of knowledge about climate.
Ironic, isn’t it ?
* Employ a phrase that describes an attitude that nobody embraces.
* Condemn nonexistent people who would believe in such a concept that nobody embraces.
* Declare the concept that nobody embraces in the first place dead.
* Claim victory.
… more than ironic, actually.
Stupid.
The way to kill “climate denial” is to make it mainstream. Think about it. Harder.
A constant stream of logical fallacies from climate extremists.
…Public opinion recognises the link with climate change, with international polls showing that worries about global warming are now at record levels with vanishingly few people thinking it’s a hoax…
This Fool conveniently failed to add the results of a survey of some 9,736,000 respondents to The United Nations MyWorld 2015. Vote For The World You Want.
The UN clearly expected the people to vote for Climate Change as The Biggie but….
See MyWorld Analytics 2015 for the result in which the usual suspects of Education, Jobs Health and Food reign. Climate Change where it belongs. Stone Motherless Last of the 16 subjects
Eric and readers. I do not know how to capture this as an Archive. I suspect the UN would be happy for it to fade away into nothingness. Can anyone fully capture it to ensure this blatant rejection of Climate Alarm remains with us to present when Clowns, as above, make up lies.
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“…Climate change is happening.”
I am certain that it is happening, as it has been happening on this cosmic rock since it was formed. The first question to ask is- “Is that a bad thing?” The next question would be- “Can you do anything about it?” Since the answer to the latter is “No” (you can no more change the climate of the planet than you can make it stop rotating…) the answer to the former is irrelevant.
Live life while you can, and enjoy the experience. Feel fortunate to be alive at a time when the climate is in this minute period of favorable climate to all life on Earth. It was quite different 50,000 years ago, and it will most likely be different 50,000 years from now.
Doesn’t that make you feel better?
Climate denial – the denial that the evidence shows that man made global warming is a second order effect at best, is certainly dead in the scientific community…
Why must we complicate things by using too many words to try to communicate how smart we are or by using words deceptively to try to win the argument. It’s simple, climate change was always believed by the vast majority of skeptical people, Man made climate change and the ability to control the climate by man, is what wasn’t believed. The apathy comes from a belief that Man hasn’t contributed enough to the issue to make any significant change, and that Man can’t control climate change. That belief is stronger than ever.
Denial is dead according to search results in Google and using Beijing-style dictates over the internet. Reasoned inspection is lurking in the underground though allowing mullahs to sleep well at night with command and control and science to keep an ember going in the dark.
Climate concern drops to zero on January 1 in California. There are other priorities there of the smoke and edible varieties. Although the science findings of more aggressive behavior in the young and dimished brain capacity helps keep the climate and other various advocacy drives alive.