The awful people are right about climate change

[damnedifIknow]

n October 2006, The New Yorker magazine, the repository sooner or later of all human wit and knowledge, printed a prophetic cartoon on the subject of climate change.

By the veteran cartoonist Gahan Wilson, it showed an older couple sitting on their porch. The man is reading his newspaper, and although little is shown of him, his bald head and furrowed brow make him appear grumpy, as if he were reading without the help of a sense of humor. (There’s a lot of that going around.)

The woman, presumably his wife, is looking out on the landscape, which is utterly parched and barren — a climate-change apocalypse. “It’s a pity those awful people were right about the environment,” she says.

Those awful people, yes, and we all know their identity. In the estimation of climate change deniers, they are not only the scientists and environmentalists, but also ordinary people like myself — and with luck, yourself — who like a nice tree even if the urge to hug it is usually repressed."

*How strange this is. Many deniers go to church and honor the creator God but they cannot see their personal responsibility in cleaning up the mess humanity is made of His creation. They cannot see it even when Mother Nature comes down as if bearing the wrath of the Almighty.

When does the lobster figure out what’s going on with the boiling water and the pot? When does the hard-shelled denier look up from his newspaper or TV and see what others see?

The politics of denial is writing the obituary of the planet. Cause of death? Stupidity. What a pity. How awful that it won’t seem like a funny cartoon when it happens."

http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/reg-henry/2014/10/08/The-ghastly-people-are-right-about-climate-change/stories/201410080058

[Mnemosyne]

1. K&R nt

[nxylas]

2. Another favorite of mine

I can't remember the exact wording, but it's a meme that says something like "Suppose the climate change deniers are right and we create a less polluted environment for nothing" (as I remember it, there was a whole list of benefits to tackling climate change, that would still apply even if there was no climate change, in the original meme).

[Spitfire of ATJ]

3. ...

Remember "Iron Eyes"?



We are being told the choice is between jobs and believing a bunch of anti-American commies.

[Cha]

4. I saw that.. has it been that long ago!?

Only I thought I remembered "those damn libruls" were right about Climate Change.. but we all get the picture.

Mahalo damnedifIknow.. good article!

[damnedifIknow]

5. This sums it up well

"No, it is about the elephant in the room — unfortunately, the Republican elephant who has made Dumbo of many of his handlers and followers. "

[chervilant]

6. Hubris, actually...

Not just stupidity.

[Blue_Tires]

7. They were *always* right about climate change

By now even the deniers know the truth deep down...

But (and never forget this part) the deniers didn't start their movement because they thought the science was bad or the whole thing was a hoax, or the rapture would save them...They started their campaign (naturally bankrolled by the usual suspects in Houston) to completely disrupt and dilute any real discussion with their anti-science silliness, and therefore delay any meaningful action while the developed nations clung to their fossil-fueled status quo...