Daily Climate - As Deniers' Ranks Shrink, They & Their Claims Are Only Going To Get Crazier
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A hardy perennial among denier memes is flourishing: President Obama, they say, is a hypocrite because he arrived at the Paris meet via a fuel-guzzling jet. I can remember encountering this one as far back as 1985, when a chemical industry exec told me that because I, too, had used an aeroplane, I had no moral authority to write about anyone else’s pollution. But I’m no Obama, and he’s drawn heavy flack as Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, the National Review, and others beat this dead horse. I’m willing to give Obama some slack for using Air Force One: Perhaps the carbon-neutral Presidential trireme is back in drydock.
Rush Limbaugh postulated that “deranged people …..and most of them are leftists” would take Obama’s embrace of climate action as a cue to start America’s next mass shooting. Lord Monckton, the theatrical British peer, offered a different perspective: Instead of one-off acts of domestic terrorism, he said, Obama’s game was teaming up with “malevolent scientists,” using the climate summit to establish a world totalitarian government.
Another central theme from the denial-o-sphere is that distributing as much coal as possible throughout the developing world will be the key to beating “energy poverty.” Peabody Energy, who couldn’t lick Appalachian poverty even while mining a century’s worth of its coal, is big on this one. And Peabody’s learning a thing or two about its own poverty: Its stock traded at $112 a share in 2001, and right now, it’s hovering at $10.
Patrick Moore, an early Greenpeace leader who has spent the last quarter century in the employ of the chlorine industry, the timber industry, the nuclear industry, the aquaculture industry and others who need an environmental PR boost, officially weighed in as an ocean acidification denier. In a report that appears to contain no original research or indication of peer review, Moore defies a growing body of research as well as a basic understanding of chemistry by pronouncing that “alarmism” is responsible for findings—original research and peer-review included—that the pH balance of the oceans is beginning to change.
Hopefully you get the gist of this by now. These people are crazy. Detached from reality. Off the deep end. Not rowing with both oars in the water. And while the U.S. media hasn’t entirely stopped giving them oxygen, they’re now largely quarantined onto Fox News.
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http://www.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2015/12/will-we-reach-peak-denial-soon
