Completely consistent. What can you say about someone that doesn’t care about their own children?
Unless you’ve been living underground or have a vested interest in turning a blind eye to reality, you know that climate change has sent temperatures soaring to dangerous levels around the planet this summer.
Two global climate organizations on Thursday confirmed that July is on track to be the single hottest month on record. It is also likely the hottest monthlong stretch in 120,000 years. Nearly 200 million people — 60% of the U.S. population — are currently under an extreme heat or flood advisory.
But as usual, Republican climate deniers are quick to dismiss the dire impacts.
“There is a very scientific word for this: It’s called summer,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) told HuffPost when asked about the heat on Thursday. “It’s no hotter right now than it’s ever been. I’ve been in this heat all my life in July and August as a football coach. This world’s not heating up, come on.”
Tuberville coached college football before entering politics and has no apparent scientific background. Yet the lack of knowledge in the field doesn’t keep him from confidently pooh-poohing the work of thousands of scientists around the world. Last month, as much of the U.S. Northeast was blanketed in thick smoke from Canadian wildfires, Tuberville deployed a similar response: “We’ve had fires for all of our life, come on.”
It’s clear some or most of deniers have little idea of what’s going on or how one would find that out.
Something like a lack of imagination involved, whatever their background.
Anyone over 15 and under 90 who doesn’t know at this point has chosen not to know, & the only way they can do that is to know but refuse to admit it. Whether that constitutes lying to themselves or others (usually both) psychotherapy is called for.
I wonder if it would be constructive for them to invent an experiment or set of experiments that would convince them there is such a thing that they deny. Of course they could check into various histories of science. Blackbody radiation is not hard to demonstrate, nor is thermal opacity of various gases.