| 'Climate change doesn't exist' on 08:00 - Jan 4 with 918 views | NthQldITFC |
These days, there aren't that many people who are still too stupid to realise that climate change does exist.
It's just that for a staggeringly high proportion of people it only exists as an abstract concept, and as such can be relegated in our minds below important things like consuming and piling things up.
Those of us who live with the real effects of what is only just beginning understand what we have done.
The rest of us soon will. |  |
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| 'Climate change doesn't exist' on 08:17 - Jan 4 with 844 views | StokieBlue |
The effects are clearly starting to be more pronounced and that is likely to continue.
The issue with highlighting a single point like this heatwave is that deniers point to other single points in order to dismiss it.
It's right to highlight it but in debates is better to highlight multi-year trends which are much harder to dismiss than single outlier events. We saw this in action even on here where some posters were dismissing the high temperatures this summer by pointing to the 1976 summer outlier event.
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| 'Climate change doesn't exist' on 08:19 - Jan 4 with 834 views | Dubtractor |
| 'Climate change doesn't exist' on 08:17 - Jan 4 by StokieBlue |
The effects are clearly starting to be more pronounced and that is likely to continue.
The issue with highlighting a single point like this heatwave is that deniers point to other single points in order to dismiss it.
It's right to highlight it but in debates is better to highlight multi-year trends which are much harder to dismiss than single outlier events. We saw this in action even on here where some posters were dismissing the high temperatures this summer by pointing to the 1976 summer outlier event.
SB |
Agree with that, broadly, but I guess the increased frequency of these 'outlier' events makes them more and more difficult to ignore. |  |
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