Political Memes

It's like who do you trust to fix your car:

Your mechanic who you know has worked on cars before they could drive one, is passionate about cars, and has already gotten several shit boxes to run more reliably than a factory fresh Toyota.

Or this random spice head with a foil hat who just rolled up started kicking your tires and saying your car won't run because of a Jewish parts conspiracy.

The science is actually pretty straightforward, I taught it to my nephew because it's a great way to understand thermodynamics, conservation of energy and a few other fundamentals.

I'm not talking about crunching numbers to calculate the total CO2 equivalent in the air or to model an ice shelf or to quantify the AMOC or something, but the fundamental issue and why it happens is easy enough to understand for the layman.

There's a great video of Carl Sagan addressing congress(?) about climate change where he explains it concisely, if you're interested.

The science is a century and a half old. You can learn it. :-)

It's an old meme, but it mostly still works...

You're clearly doing the wrong research.

Peer-reviewed, schmeer-peepood, meh.

Yep he's only ever funny when he's not trying to be/doesn't realize he's being funny 🤣

Just use your own brain and eyeballs.

When I was coming up learning about the long slow path of climate change, it was "We have to act now, because by the time you can readily see the effects with your eyes, we'll be fucked cause it'll be too late by then."

Whelp here we are. All we can do now is mitigate the damage however we can.

Damn straight. In Australia we have massive fires every fucking year. When I was a kid it might have been one or two per decade. I remember large flocks of birds flying overhead in mornings and afternoons - none of that happens now. Insect diversity has fallen. National Parks almost look like graveyards of previously thriving forest, it's just depressing. In Victoria over half a national park just burnt out because rainfall has been low for 20 years and there just isn't enough moisture around to stop fires from spreading rapidly. Shit's fucked, and it's going to get worse.

Just use your own brain and eyeballs.

We're going to need something a bit more robust than that I'm afraid. People who fall for conspiracy after conspiracy are using their own brain and eyeballs. Even schizophrenics use their own brain and eyeballs.

If someone's childhood photos show snow-free Christmases, is that enough for them to declare climate change a hoax?

People need to understand the scientific method better. What a hypothesis is, the importance of falsifiability. There is no truth in the universe, you can't determine what is true and what is false by looking inside yourself, or by trusting your gut. There is no truth. That is the universe we live in.

People that say "you don't understand science" is like saying they don't understand how science comes to its conclusions. It's not political. It's not personal. It's what is found with an experiment. And then repeated.

The person doing those has motivations and personal stuff. Everyone does. To say someone manipulated the results based on that and everyone else that repeated the same damn method is baffling.

They probably have at least two other houses.

What had happened was, his house got Space lazered.

Read the tweet, it says Gibson nodded along with him.

Mel Gibson is well known for being incredibly racist, homophobic, xenophobic, anti-semetic, misogynist and probably more I'm not aware of.

And no that's not an exaggeration, each one of those claims has plenty of evidence to back it up if you care to search. Like, we're talking racist rants involving the 'n' word, anti-semetic rants including the 'k' slur, telling his wife, on tape, to get raped by a "pack of n*****s", etc... He's a piece of shit.

He also collects Nazi memorabilia apparently.

I fully agree with all of that but I don't think that basic understanding is even important.

I go to the doctor when my body needs help. She spent years learning about how my body works and I trust her. Sure I do my own basic investigation first, but she has a holistic view and niche knowledge that I can never hope to compete with.

Climate scientists are saying that we're destroying the careful balance? Righto. You know better than I do.

Also what's the worst case scenario if they're wrong? I get my energy from a source that is solar panels on my roof or some company that isn't BP doing massive oil spills for pennies on the dollar or whatever and my country is energy secure?

OK then. Sounds good to me. 👍