The denialists will never, ever accept climate change
The world is burning up right now with temperatures soaring even in places like the arctic. The scientific consensus is that this is caused by climate change and common sense can tell any yokel on the street that this is not normal.
However, the wingnuts will never accept this presumably because they either care more about their fossil fuel portfolios or they care more about owning the libs than anything else in this world.
Here’s an example from Paul Hindraker (aka Hindrocket for those of you who remember the good old days of blogging.)
This last week, the press has been full of alarmist headlines: Tuesday was the hottest day ever! No, Wednesday was the hottest day ever! Of course, you have to 1) define “ever,” and 2) believe that we have any idea what the average temperature is, over the whole Earth, on a particular day–let alone a particular day 1,000 years ago.
At Watts Up With That?, Paul Homewood comments:
The idea that we know the global temperature today is absurd in itself. But the idea that we actually know what it was on a given day 100 years ago, or 1000 years ago, never mind thousands of years ago is sheer fraud.
And the claim that it is hotter now than 5000 years ago is a total lie – there is abundant evidence that it was much warmer then.
Then there is this:
“It hasn’t been this warm since at least 125,000 years ago, which was the previous interglacial,” Paulo Ceppi, a climate scientist at London’s Grantham Institute, told the Washington Post.
Wait, what? I didn’t know they had SUVs 125,000 years ago. What made it warm then? You’re not supposed to ask.
This is an educated man not a snotty 6th grader. If the temperature was ever this hot before SUVs it means that it can’t be caused by SUVs today? Come on.
STEVE adds—Steve Milloy has an excellent column on this issue coming out tomorrow in the Wall Street Journal:
The global-warming industry has declared that July 3 and 4 were the two hottest days on Earth on record. The reported average global temperature on those days was 62.6 degrees Fahrenheit, supposedly the hottest in 125,000 years. . .
One obvious problem with the updated narrative is that there are no satellite data from 125,000 years ago. Calculated estimates of current temperatures can’t be fairly compared with guesses of global temperature from thousands of years ago.
It’s obvious that the point here is to insist, once again, despite growing evidence in front of our very eyes, that climate change caused by greenhouse gasses is bogus. Yeah, ok. I’m convinced.
The sad thing is that since owning libs is what tens of millions of our fellow Americans live for, they are all too eager to believe this.