The Real Climate Change Scandal
Climate change deniers are having a field day over a supposed ‘scandal’, which in their minds confirms the ‘vast consipiracy’ of anthropogenic global warming. Said ‘scandal’, involving lines taken entirely out of context from emails hacked from the University of East Anglia, is barely worth mentioning.
We could go on for days about what the real scandal is – but WorldChanging has summed it up so perfectly, we simply can’t say it better. Here’s a snippet:
1) Climate change is real, it’s here, we’re causing it, and it’s worse than we thought it was.
2) There is no “debate” about #1; the completely massively overwhelming majority of all the scientists studying this issue, from nearly every angle, agree. Indeed, they agree in such a total majority that we might as well say all scientists agree that climate change is real, is here, is caused by people and is worse than we thought it was.
3) We know what causes climate change, therefore we know how to stop it.
4) The actions we need to take to stop it will cut into some companies’ profits (such as oil and coal companies); therefore they have funded a well-documented, three-decade propaganda campaign to distort the science, vilify the scientists and dupe the American people into thinking they’re being lied to.
5) There is no credible institutional opposition to climate action that isn’t directly or indirectly funded by these companies and their political allies. The entire “skeptic” movement is an astroturf creation: the fact that some regular guys believe it and parrot its talking points just makes it sadder, not more credible.
Go to WorldChanging for the rest.
While all of this gleeful mudslinging continues – and by the way, you should head over to Grist.org for excellent analyses of the emails and what they actually say – climate change is getting worse. Twenty-six climatologists have slammed the IPCC for underreporting the seriousness of the situation, as sea levels rise and methane-laden arctic permafrost melts much sooner than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had anticipated.
Link WorldChanging + Grist
Photo credit: Flickr user nattu
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