Ask A Genius 1068: Anthropogenic Climate Change
Author(s): Rick Rosner and Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2024/08/06
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Climate change denial, I should specify anthropogenic climate change denial.
Rick Rosner: Right. Since we’ve been talking for ten years, the evidence for climate change has grown a lot. What you used to see was straight-out people saying, “Nah, it’s bullshit. It’s not happening. The Earth’s cooling,” or whatever. As evidence for climate change accumulates, you get a greater variety of denialist bullshit.
Yes, the climate is changing, but humans aren’t causing it. Or it’s a sunspot cycle, or the Earth has been much warmer in prehistory. There’s much denial, and almost all of it is bullshit. Based on all the data, the most reasonable conclusion is that human activity is causing the Earth’s atmosphere and the ocean’s temperature to rise enough that there are huge effects to be seen and even biggereffects to be anticipated.
Yes, there are probably some quibbles about some data sets or methodologies, but generally, they all point in the same direction. But there are still contrary a-holes, trolls, morons, and people who are paid to muddy the waters and still drag out bullshit arguments. But climate change denial is mostly a bullshitter and troll industry.
Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, www.rickrosner.org
Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, www.in-sightpublishing.com
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