The more real climate change becomes, the more fanciful and fantastic the deniers conspiracies get. There's a classic 70 year old book on this as a nice introduction
In climate change's case, they say "it doesn't exist" and then it happens. It's the same social mechanisms regardless.
They used to just call scientists alarmists, then fraudsters, and now that it's happening there's witchcraft, shadowy cabals, secret weapons, global conspiracies ... this isn't a self-correcting epistemology, it just goes further off the rails.
Check out how wildly complicated covid conspiracies have gotten now that their global government never came, people didn't all drop dead from the vaccine, and everything mostly returned to normal. They're spinning rube goldberg towers of fantastic tales to stay in their delusions.
There's no denying in the 4bn+ years of Earth, the climate has changed multiple times. Is it changing drastically, today, due to human influence? That's a bigger claim and with good arguments on both sides.
Have we forgotten the Climate controversy emails from 2009?
kristopolous|2 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails
In climate change's case, they say "it doesn't exist" and then it happens. It's the same social mechanisms regardless.
They used to just call scientists alarmists, then fraudsters, and now that it's happening there's witchcraft, shadowy cabals, secret weapons, global conspiracies ... this isn't a self-correcting epistemology, it just goes further off the rails.
Check out how wildly complicated covid conspiracies have gotten now that their global government never came, people didn't all drop dead from the vaccine, and everything mostly returned to normal. They're spinning rube goldberg towers of fantastic tales to stay in their delusions.
piuantiderp|2 years ago
Have we forgotten the Climate controversy emails from 2009?
da02|2 years ago
Do you take anything else besides the vaccine against covid? How do you deal with friends who are anti-covid-vaccine/pro-vitamin?
samstave|2 years ago
honeybadger1|2 years ago