Suppose you believe the things that most people who understand the science believe: that the changes we are imposing on the world are huge and dangerous that the impacts follow the causes by some decades that we have a moral obligation not to trash the whole planet in the future Then suppose you grant that,…
Because we have been successfully Godwinned out of calling the self-proclaimed “skeptics” “denialists”, I join the new trend in calling them “delusionists”. Here’s a slightly edited instant messaging transcript you may find interesting. “mt” below is me. The other two people speaking are not climatologists. One (here called ‘Fred’) is well-known as an author of…