“I think people are going to be thinking about climate change misinformation quite a lot [in 2022]”

5 thoughts on ““I think people are going to be thinking about climate change misinformation quite a lot [in 2022]””

1. yes, of course, I know a lot of people here not believing in “climate change” and the harmful effect of GHG emissions…like everywhere else…
   For those guys it should be organized a “relaxing documentary trip” near the stack of a 300 MW coal fired boiler (burning 40-50 railways wagons of coal / hour), force these guys to count them for 1 h, smell the exhaust gases ant then ask them to multiply this x 4 units in that plant, and then, ask them to multiply this again for 10,000 similar plants in the world…FOR 1 HOUR ONLY !
   …or, similarly, ask them to start the engine of the car, parked in their underground parking with the door closed…and see what happens…it is exactly the same thing…

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   1. This is a great idea. Thanks, Catalin

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2. The Covid nutters/climate deniers are not open to reason – because their anti-covid/climate denier “positions” are part of their belief system. The links below are rather good at explaining this.
   http://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe
   &
   http://bigthink.com/think-tank/the-backfire-effect-why-facts-dont-win-arguments

   As for how I regard them, I rather favour this view:
   “a nation or world of people who will not use their intelligence are no better than animals that do not have intelligence, such people are beasts of burden and steaks on the table by choice & consent”
   William Cooper: “Behold a Pale Horse”

   Which leaves then the open question: how to deal with them. One route is that which would be taken by Stalin. The other is “sweet reason” which for the reasons given in the two links, will not work. Which leaves the non-Stalinists at something of an impasse.

   Last question: is it possible that the current structures of what passes for “democracy” in the West encourage a lunatic fringe?. We are, for the most part disenfranchised – voting every couple of years is not & never has been democracy. Could it be that the lunatic fringe is a reaction to this?

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   1. Excellent comment, Mike

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3. …then, what is left, as I suggested, is to put them in the undeground parking, start the engine of the car and slam the doors shut…
   It’s not Stalinist approach to protect 1 person (dictator), but instead a defence measure to protect “the other part” of a collectivity from extinction

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