Silence of Dissent

Ha. Didn't it used to be the other way, with climate change being treated with immense skepticism, media play-down, and governments sidling research into the background. Guess biases have blown the opposite way now. "Hilarious."

I'll have to watch that doubting video. Global warming has always bothered me. The two sides talk past each other with such hyberbole you can't tell straight. You have oil-funded cronies purposely manufacturing dissent for the sake of dissent, ala the tobacco company playback, often by way of typoes or proven-wrong "evidence." Pitted againstthem are the super-wacko environmental groups, who are prone to having you believe nuclear plants will create godzilla-sized monstrosities when in reality they release less radiation than consuming a banana.

Still, I mean, we've got all of these coalitions of scientists largely agreeing to the same thing, we've got record-breaking weather patterns starting, we have all of these models developed different ways that all need the "CO2 assumption" to work...what is really required to say "it's a go?" What more would it take for sufficient evidence? Given the way that climate change can potentially build on itself, seems at least worth picking the low-hanging fruit ala CAFE standards and other measues that could improve our national security too.

Instead, you have idiots hoping oil companies will magically eat their profits and fix everything and "stop being mean," like it's entirely the fault of a few bad suits or that industry should fix everything.

Sigh. I hate this. I hate not knowing for sure if it's an issue, and I hate addressing it by tacking "oh btw this reduces CO2" onto green-washed political subsidies that won't do anything one way or the other.

Jam it back in, in the dark.