Comment by senordevnyc
14 hours ago
You’re angering the doom and gloom crowd. To them, anything that isn’t a fully hysterical and confident assertion that we’re doomed to extinction, is basically a denial of climate change. There’s no nuance, curiosity, or data to be found, just people trying to shout you down. It’s been like this for decades.
Ironically, these people probably do as much harm to the efforts to curb climate change as anyone. When you spend decades making breathless claims of imminent doom, and then it doesn’t happen, people rightfully stop listening to you.
Climate change is real, very serious, and we should absolutely take (more) action. But the worst case scenario here is so far from what these people confidently claim that it’s very hard to take them seriously.
Yeah, I know. I didn't expect these to be popular comments. There's a hardcore contingent of people who have an absolutely unshakeable conviction of apocalypse that borders on religious faith, coupled with next to zero understanding of the actual data. To these types, simply telling them what the IPCC reports say, verbatim (what I've done here), is tantamount to heresy.
It does bug me a little that their knee-jerk response is always insults and censorship (of course my comment was flagged...no wrongthink allowed here, even if it does come from the IPCC!) but every time they do that, it shows normal thinkers that there's a reasonable center ground, and the doom-and-gloom crowd isn't even remotely being rational.
...but then again, that's probably why their first impulse is censorship.