There's also a comprehensive list of >200 common science-y sounding myths and science-based responses at skepticalscience.com However, climate denial isn't actually about science, even though that's how it often seems. It's about solution aversion, and any excuse that will enable it. That's why...
I can understand climate denial from a, I don't believe the science, point of view. What I cant understand is refusal to support resilience of infrastructure. It's like madmen on top of a burning tower block arguing with the firemen about who started the fire & not evacuating the building ;-)
Yeah I was just talking to @lewan.bsky.social this AM & he said climate denialism make contradictory claims, but that doesn't bother them, because the fundamental coherence lies in commitment to not taking action. "You can't make me!" is the crux of it. And with so much $ & power....
I would argue instead of trying to find commonalities and then be a deplorables-whisperer it’s more effective (both faster and easier on your mental health) to call them weird and laugh at them. Make them feel socially awkward.
Exactly. It's one of those things I've said for years in other forums, that denying solutions makes you a denier. One of the things people deny the most is that individual action is an essential aspect of climate action, and I direct them to people like Hannah Ritchie. substack.com/@hannahritch...
Individuals aren't going to solve climate change, but they are an important part of the system that will get us there.
So much of the stuff I see is redolent of the teatch-the-controversy strategy employed by the Intelligent design crew.
Ooooh! Solution aversion is a great term. What an interesting way to reframe.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” - Upton Sinclair, 1934