July 8, 2015 6:01 AM

Dear global climate change deniers: Here's your sign

I just want to highlight this illuminating infographic by James Powell in which, based on more than 2000 peer-reviewed publications, he counts the number of authors from November, 2012 to December, 2013 who explicitly deny global warming (that is, who propose a fundamentally different reason for temperature rise than anthropogenic CO2). The number is exactly one. In addition Powell also has helpful links to the abstracts and main text bodies of the relevant papers. It’s worth noting how many authors agree with the basic fact of global warming - more than nine thousand. And that’s just in a single year. Now I understand as well as anyone else that consensus does not imply truth but I find it odd how there aren’t even a handful of scientists who deny global warming presumably because the global warming mafia threatens to throttle them if they do. It’s not like we are seeing a 70-30% split, or even a 90-10% split. No, the split is more like 99.99-0.01%.

Before anyone sets off to claiming that global climate change is just so much junk science, a Liberal plot to force us to throw away our incandescent light bulbs and with it our freedom, how about we ponder the above graphic for a moment? Just sit with it…and then try to explain why global climate change can be a hoax when 2259 out of 2260 peer reviewed articles explicitly proceed from the supposition that it’s real, demonstrable, and provable.

Go ahead…I’ll wait….

Truth is, you can deny global climate change all you want. You’re certainly free to your opinions; what you’re not free to are your own facts. The beautiful thing about science is that it doesn’t give a damn about opinions. It’s doesn’t care whether you believe in something or not or even what you think about it. All science cares about is what’s provable, demonstrable, and real. In this case, what’s provable, demonstrable, and real is that global climate change exists. It’s a man-made phenomenon created through our own irresponsibility and poor stewardship. Ignoring the truth can only harm our interests, as well as those of future generations.

So what’s it going to be? Do we continue to ignore scientific reality? Or do we wake up to what we’re collectively doing to the only home we have, try to fix what we can, and try to preserve as much as possible in order that we may pass along a livable planet to our children and grandchildren?

Don’t take too long to decide. We’re running out of time.

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