Climate Change(d)?

[Shadowy Man]

And I have previously agreed with you that a fair amount of the alarmism is unwarranted and actually detrimental to the goals of combating climate change.

In what way is the alarmism detrimental to the battle against climate change?

An example would be if a non-scientist alarmist makes a prediction that doesn't come true and it leads to people dismissing the science because it predicted something wrong. And if those people support, or are themselves, anti-intellectual politicians that can result in the undermining of any reasonable (non-almarist) government-level efforts to combat climate change.

There's a fable called "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" that basically outlines this very basic aspect of human behavior.

 

[bilby]

And I have previously agreed with you that a fair amount of the alarmism is unwarranted and actually detrimental to the goals of combating climate change.

In what way is the alarmism detrimental to the battle against climate change?

It encorages fuckwits to dismiss the entire issue as alarmist nonsense.

 

[Shadowy Man]

The problem is that even the non-alarmists are ignored. Because the changes were slow and subtle to begin they could be ignored, starting decades ago.

There’s just too much money to be made in the fossil fuel industry to give it up. So, if the science can be undermined it benefits those who make short term profit at the long term expense of the rest of us.

Since we didn’t put into effect a reasonable transition plan when it could have been affordable it looks like we will just have to adapt, but even a rational adaptation plan isn’t being put into place.

 

[bilby]

The problem is that even the non-alarmists are ignored. Because the changes were slow and subtle to begin they could be ignored, starting decades ago.

There’s just too much money to be made in the fossil fuel industry to give it up. So, if the science can be undermined it benefits those who make short term profit at the long term expense of the rest of us.

Since we didn’t put into effect a reasonable transition plan when it could have been affordable it looks like we will just have to adapt, but even a rational adaptation plan isn’t being put into place.

That's because there's just too much money in the intermittent renewables industry to give it up.