Tuesday, April 08, 2008 . 4/08/2008

I think I can see how some people are still in denial about human-caused global warming (or AGW). Every once in a while I'll see commercials that say we can all cooperate to save the planet, and there will be people saying the same thing. The term "saving the planet" is a bit extreme, I think. In reality that is not what we are going to do, at least not really. When we're gone the planet will recover itself. It always has, after all. The Earth itself doesn't care that we're here. But future generations of people (and all species) will care. In reality, we are saving ourselves.

Another thing is how sometimes denialists are presented as actually having a case when they don't.

I remember Singer was on the news about a week ago and he said that he didn't have a doubt in his mind that AGW wasn't real. This is not how real scientists talk. This guy is deliberately denying all evidence the same way creationists look the other way, cover their ears and go "lalalala" every time they are presented with evidence for evolution. In my mind it isn't any different.

Labels: Denialism, Global Warming

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