I feel like if it hadn't gotten a lot of it's starting publicity from some shitty home video that was more conjecture than any actual presentation of facts, and then had to undergo a name change when it became apparent "Global Warming" wasn't necessarily that accurate, it would probably have an easier time of it nowadays
The funny thing about science is that it begs to be proven wrong. If you or anybody else can categorically, systemically, and academically show that the prevailing theories about climate change are not correct, then that would be a huge deal. But all the climate deniers are people who harp on the social and economic aspects rather than the scientific ones. We shouldn't need to sell that we have a negative impact on this world and that maybe we should do better.
That's the thing - when Al Gore's dumbass video came out it had nothing in it. No facts, no evidence. Nothing concrete. And it won a bloody Nobel peace Prize.
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It's so awful and uninformed that one of my former teachers used it as an example not to believe everything you hear just because a famous person said it. He played it alongside other videos that had been lost to the void that had actual research and citations and results. Some were in favour of global warming, while others showed with their research way before "climate change" became the trendy thing to do that "Global Warming" was not accurate to describe the state of our planet. I doubt it was ironclad but it was definitely more well sourced than Al Gore rambling about how he used to have a river near his house or some shit. <- which won the Nobel Prize over a woman that literally smuggled Jewish people to safety and ended up imprisoned with all her limbs broken iirc.
Another example - we have had several groups in Canada complaining about how horrifically awful pipelines are on the environment. They have preached this from east to west coast, insisting that we remain using railcar transport (and setting up beartraps in the hopes of crippling oil workers for life but that's besides the point). Also keep in mind the vast majority of them own and use automobiles. Anyway, the reality is that transport by pipeline is safer overall. But they ignore that. Except some of the Native groups who have screamed about how horrific the pipeline will be on the environment... And then said actually it would be fine, so long as they were the ones who owned and controlled the pipeline.
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Several years ago they were telling us that eggs were essentially equivalent to tasty cyanide and would cut more years off your life than smoking cigarettes. Which, incidentally, was the healthiest thing you could possibly have been doing (nevermind the lung cancer)
The point in all this has nothing to do with the legitimacy of Climate Change (i'm not voicing a stance one way or the other here). The point is that people lie. People have agendas. People get things wrong. People make mistakes. It IS up to science to provide it's proof. And it is up to science to continue providing that proof for as long as the claim exists. And as far as I'm concerned you should ALWAYS question it when someone presents you with something of this magnitude.
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It's so awful and uninformed that one of my former teachers used it as an example not to believe everything you hear just because a famous person said it. He played it alongside other videos that had been lost to the void that had actual research and citations and results. Some were in favour of global warming, while others showed with their research way before "climate change" became the trendy thing to do that "Global Warming" was not accurate to describe the state of our planet. I doubt it was ironclad but it was definitely more well sourced than Al Gore rambling about how he used to have a river near his house or some shit. <- which won the Nobel Prize over a woman that literally smuggled Jewish people to safety and ended up imprisoned with all her limbs broken iirc.
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Several years ago they were telling us that eggs were essentially equivalent to tasty cyanide and would cut more years off your life than smoking cigarettes. Which, incidentally, was the healthiest thing you could possibly have been doing (nevermind the lung cancer)