David Collum: Pandemonium

Yes, this guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about re climate change. It’s like - he’s now a Trump supporter and watches Fox, so there can’t be climate change. If you look at the evidence for human induced climate change, it’s overwhelming. Has he read the IPCC reports, the NASA website. The Sceptical Science website, the books written by investigators in the field ie in Alaska, in Siberia, in Greenland. (Try Dahl Jamail’s recent book - The End of Ice, Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything and so many more.
Has he seen the interviews with scientists like Professor Peter Waddams, who has been studying Greenland ice for forty years? Has he seen the graphs showing a big rise in greenhouse gases since WW2 and the corresponding graphs of increasing world temperatures and increasing ocean temperatures and levels of acidity. No I bet he just regurgitates the crap put out by the right wing denialists, not the 97 % of climate scientists who know it’s real. All the fire chiefs in my country Australia, both current and retired say that the extraordinary devastation that’s taking place here is because of the steadily increasing “moisture deficit” occurring in recent years which has made things that much more combustible. One said that in his 46 years fighting fires he has never seen anything like this. And the same phenomenon has caused the Great Barrier Reef to die off, as well as the huge and extensive kelp beds off the east coast of Tasmania. Warmer water fish from the north are moving into these southern regions like never before. Tropical weeds are now being seen in regions which have recently become warmer. Sydney and Canberra have just recorded their hottest days ever.
Meanwhile Scotland recorded it warmest December day ever and yesterday someone on Reddit posted that it was currently 20 degrees above normal in their home area of west Norway. Climate denialists can’t accept the truth because they can’t face the reality that modern industrial civilisation and extreme capitalism with extraordinary levels of consumption ( and waste) of both material goods and energy is at fault.