When you are in a hole, stop digging!
Bill McKibbenTags: climate-change climate-change-denial climate-denial climate-crisis
Climate Change is caused by human emissions; it moves faster or slower partly in response to our rate of emissions, but also because of natural "tipping points" that make the planet take things in its own hands. So, for example, during one of the last great climactic shifts, the planet may have gone from being fairly warm to an ice age in less than ten years; and then the ice age may have ended in a single season! These things are very hard to model, but projections for the future that imagine Climate Change will occur in a gradual and orderly fashion are probably wrong.
Sharon AstykTags: climate-change
I have blogged previously about the dangerous and deadly effects of science denialism, from the innocent babies unnecessarily exposed to deadly diseases by other kids whose parents are anti-vaxxers, to the frequent examples of how acceptance of evolution helps us stop diseases and pests (and in the case of Baby Fae, rejection of evolution was fatal), to the long-term effects of climate denial to the future of the planet we all depend upon. But one of the strangest forms of denialism is the weird coalition of people who refuse to accept the medical fact that the HIV virus causes AIDS. What the heck? Didn’t we resolve this issue in the 1980s when the AIDS condition first became epidemic and the HIV virus was discovered and linked to AIDS? Yes, we did—but for people who want to deny scientific reality, it doesn’t matter how many studies have been done, or how strong the scientific consensus is. There are a significant number of people out there (especially among countries and communities with high rates of AIDS infections) that refuse to accept medical reality. I described all of these at greater length in my new book Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten our Future.
Donald R. ProtheroTags: science reality denial evolution medicine climate-change blog vaccine climate-change-denial paleontologist anti-vaccine paleontologists science-denial
Global warming is by its very nature a threat, but it is a deadly threat only because it fails to trigger the brain's alarm. It leaves us sleeping in a burning bed.
Dan GilbertTags: global-warming climate-change cognitive-functioning climate-messaging dan-gilbert
I think it's [concern about global warming] mainly just like little kids locking themselves in dark closets to see how much they can scare each other and themselves.
Richard S. LindzenTags: climate-change mit
If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don't have the correct data. If you meet people in this unnamed movement and aren't optimistic, you haven't got a heart.
Paul HawkenTags: science activism social-justice climate-change
The current climate change is an outer mirror of our inner consciousness. It is an outer mirror of our attitude to try to conquer nature, instead of being in harmony with nature, but in the end the part can never conquer the whole.
Swami Dhyan GitenTags: consciousness nature global-warming climate-change
Denial of climate change and degradation of environment for the purpose of economic prosperity is humiliation and slavery of the nature.
M.F. MoonzajerTags: nature environment slavery prosperity degradation humiliation climate-change
The enemy is over there and we are still seeking revenge from the nature.
M.F. MoonzajerTags: nature revenge enemy seeking climate-change
If we deny climate change and don’t care about environmental degradation; we are no more than those people who are willing to be stupid because someone else was stupid in the past.
M.F. MoonzajerTags: stupid degradation care deny climate-change environmental
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