Inside the Minds of the Climate Change Deniers

I didn't think the Blogging Tories could surprise me. They're usually so predictable. But I must admit I've been stunned by the number of kooky climate change deniers coming out of the wood work.

Bursting out like a swarm of cicadas, and humming sympathetically.

Or just pathetically.

So what?? Big deal.. All the scientists of the day said the sun revolved around the earth , except for one guy. He was right, the rest of them were dead WRONG!!!!

Because 1,700 scientists can't be right, but he's Galileo. Huh?









And they're not just buzzing around here, they're everywhere.

Which has left me trying to come up with a reasonable explanation for this bizarre group behaviour.

Just like Jennifer does here.

Those employed or funded by the oil and coal industry, or companies whose profit margins would be hurt by action on climate change, all have rational reasons to sow the seeds of doubt - just as Big Tobacco had sound financial reasons for insisting that their product didn't really kill people. It's despicable, but it's logical.

What I still don't fully understand are the motivations of the seemingly ordinary Canadians and Americans who spend their days screeching online about Climategate and solar flares and how pleasant Canada will be when we can grow bananas here. I'm fairly certain they don't all work of ExxonMobil. But I could be wrong.

Now I must admit that for a long time I believed that climate change deniers were the unfortunate victims of poor toilet training. The kind of people who pooped their nappies, but were too afraid to admit the obvious. No matter how stinky it was.

No I didn't. Yes you did. No I didn't.

Because after all irrational fear is what defines Conservatives.

People who were conservative at age 23 had been described by their teachers as easily victimized, easily offended, indecisive, fearful, rigid, inhibited, and vulnerable at age 3. The reason for the difference, the Blocks hypothesized, was that insecure kids most needed the reassurance of tradition and authority, and they found it in conservative politics.

But now I realize it's even more frightening and complicated.

Climate change is disturbing. It’s something we don’t want to think about. So what we do in our everyday lives is create a world where it’s not there, and keep it distant...

If I don’t want to believe that climate change is true, that my lifestyle and high carbon emissions are causing devastation, then it’s convenient to say that it doesn’t.

So we don’t want to believe climate change is happening, feel guilty that it is, and don’t know what to do about it? So we pretend it’s not a problem?

Yes...

OMG. Not only are these trembling totalitarians breathtakingly ignorant, they're also dangerously delusional.

The good news?

Because they can't help themselves, the Cons are defining themselves as climate change deniers. The issue will marginalize them. Make them look like weirdos or deranged conspiracy theorists.

And the more the heat rises, the more they'll MELT.

Kowabunga. How ironic eh? They set out to torch the planet. And they torched themselves instead.

Woohoo !!!!!! Gimme my fireman's party hat !!!!

The Con cicadas are humming.

But their house is burning down...

Copenhagen and the Climate Denial Criminals

I haven't bothered to write anything about the so-called Climategate controversy, because this little smokescreen from the Big Oil Mafia doesn't change anything

You can't fake spring coming earlier, or trees growing higher up on mountains, or glaciers retreating for kilometres up valleys, or shrinking ice cover in the Arctic, or birds changing their migration times, or permafrost melting in Alaska, or the tropics expanding, or ice shelves on the Antarctic peninsula breaking up, or peak river flow occurring earlier in summer because of earlier snowmelt, or sea level rising faster and faster, or any of the thousands of similar examples.

Science is science and the evidence speaks for itself.

And all this little e-mail tempest in a teapot proves is that climate change deniers are not only a gang of slobbering oil pimps and mentally deranged fanatics, they're hackers and criminals as well.

And one day they will go on trial for crimes against the planet.

Because you can't threaten the lives of a billion people.

And hope to get away with it.

As for our own planet destroying, dirty oil, Con stooges.... their words too will come back to haunt them.

"There's always a lot of hype and drama that gets built into this sort of international event, much of it intended to force the hand of participants," Mr. Prentice said in the prepared speech. "We aren't going to buy into that. We are not going to panic.

For nothing can excuse their ridiculous arguments or their criminal lack of action.

Not in a place like Canada.

Canada has the world's longest coastline, the second-largest land mass and an enviable abundance of fresh water. Thus, by definition, the consequences of atmospheric warming must hit Canada arguably more than for most countries that lack vast territory, immense coastlines and so much fresh water.

Put another way, this piece of geography called Canada is on the front lines of the global warming struggle – although you wouldn't realize it watching the federal government.

And sorry won't be good enough.














We'll make sure of that.

You can fool the gullible, and corrupt the greedy.

Canadians tell pollsters they want “action,” but not if it unduly causes them to alter their behaviour or costs them anything. They want Canada to enjoy a stellar international reputation, but they don't seem too upset that, in the climate-change business, Canada has a horrible reputation that the Harper government isn't going to change.

But they can't betray the future of a generation, and delude themselves into thinking that we will forgive them.

Copenhagen may be the last chance to save the planet from being torched.

Facts are facts.

And the time for action is NOW !!!!!



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h/t Boing Boing