The Deniers are not going away anytime soon.
Honestly, it is just so frustrating.
Today when I was researching superstitious conjecture and its well-known advantages over scientific enquiry, I came across this article in Popular Science that was written in 1905.
It appears that they had a problem with Climate Deniers, even as far back as 1905. For example, here on the right is an article written by one such Denier who not only does not believe what the alarmists of the day are saying but goes further and encourages other people not to believe them either. He even claims that our apocalyptic predictions are absurd, and prey upon the credulity of the public.
Heavens-above! The guy that wrote this worked for the Weather Bureau as a District Forecaster. You would think that someone in a position like that, would see that it was in their interest to beat-up as much alarm as possible. How is he going to get more funding to expand his department, and justify his promotion if he keeps telling people that there is nothing to worry about. At least we don’t see too many people making that mistake nowadays. In any case, it is worth reading the first two paragraphs just to see just how totally inept that this guy was at virtue signaling – no self-righteous opinionating, shaming or identity politics at all. Rather quaint really, but then I guess that it was 115 years ago.
So I dug deeper – looking for balance, and sure enough we have a few old articles of our own. Like this second article that was published in The Washington Post 97 years ago – in November 2, 1922. It clearly states that the “Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot” That is 97 years that they have had to accept our story that a climate apocalypse is imminent, and they are still not buying it.
So I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it does not look like these Deniers are going away anytime soon. They have been peddling the same old skepticism year after year – every time that we claim that the world is going to end in some tragic apocalypse they deny it. The list of things that they don’t believe in is enormous and seems to be growing every day. If this keeps going, and according to our computer modeling it will, then one day soon they won’t believe anything that we say at all. I think that it is time that we moved on to a war footing. Yes, unfortunately it has come to that. It is time to use the power of the state to force them to agree with us. No, I am not saying that we should mow them down with machine guns, although… No, what I am saying is that we might need to provide some assistance in the form of re-education, to force them to believe our alternative facts.
I mean, check out this graph – can’t you see the correlation between temperature and CO2 with the hockey stick at the end?
Well, squint a little and wait while I zoom in on just the right part.
There it is, the hockey-stick, starting right there at 1910 when, when, when, well yes, no – not the rise from 1910 to 1940 – that obviously can’t be due to human activity – there weren’t exactly many cars or power stations back then, but look at the rise from 1975 through to 2000 – got ya – there it is – just don’t look past 2000 as that is just, just ah – weather.
Forget it. It just seems hopeless. Sometimes they even write articles mocking us.
_____________