Acclimatizing

For those who demand a neuroscience explanation, there's this piece on the brain waves responsible for climate crisis denial.  Personally I find the Jungian-based explanation more persuasive, but I recognize he's not as stylish these days as the folks with electrodes.

In that same issue of Mother Jones, there's Kate Sheppard's chronicle of  "how climate science became the target of "the best-funded, best-organized smear campaign by the wealthiest industry that the Earth has ever known." 


Here's where things stand around here at Dreaming Up Daily.  The basic science on global heating is settled science: potentially catastrophic and certainly consequential climate change is happening and will continue to happen, as a result of fossil fuel wastes.  The research into past climate change shows it, the models show it, the physics shows it, and very nearly every scientist qualified to evaluate the data agrees.  Some basically fair-minded skeptics fixate on one or two errors or hasty predictions, but the preponderance of evidence is as clear as anything in science gets, short of the law of gravity.

Most of those who oppose this basic conclusion are liars, and the rest are simply wrong.  There are smaller but still important matters of  climate science as well as huge matters of policy that need to be worked on, and that work is delayed by all this defensiveness.  In the end the Climate Crisis simply is, whether everyone believes it or not.  It's time to turn our attention to dealing with it.  And at least around here, that's what the future holds.