Yeah, right, climate change is unproven. We, the world, have 12 years left, they say.

[Mark Thibodeau]

Well Mark, I don't mean to disappoint you! :-)

I am a leftish-liberal, and am by no means a "climate change denier".
I feel that there are so many ways in which our species has messed/is
messing with our planet's ecosystems in irreversible, catastrophic
ways.

However... I just don't know. Lately, I can't help but feel that there
HAS been a not so honest, one-sided sort of alarmism tailor made
specifically to put folks just like me into a state of panicking dread
about the whole thing. And to find the "failed predictions", I didn't
get them from some right-wing think-tank white papers or shitty
articles on shitty far right rags that pretend to be intellectually
solid. All I had to do was look back on the archive of my own (very
left-liberal, if also raucous and foul-mouthed) newsletter, the Daily
Dirt, circa 1999-2006, where I unquestioningly printed those
predictions with full credulity and the requisite amplification of
doom-mood. So there's even an added element of GUILT on my part for
having helped vector into the info-sphere some information that would
perhaps more accurately (and generously) be described as "erroneous
propaganda" (giving them the benefit of the doubt), no matter how
noble the cause.

So forgive me if these "we've got twelve years to save the world"
memes don't have the same affect on me as they did when I first
started hearing them 20-something years ago.

Jerky

On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 3:13 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> interesting from you....
>
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 3:11 PM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I used to hold the same opinions as you regarding climate change. But
>> then I went back to roughly the turn of the millennium and started
>> looking at the predictions all the climate change experts were making
>> for the short term - meaning 2010, 2015, 2020, 2025, in that range -
>> including the "conservative" ones... and I gotta say, there was an
>> AWFUL lot of fear-mongering extremism about stuff, and not too many of
>> those predictions have come to pass. So I definitely think there IS
>> something to the idea that computer modeling leaves a lot to be
>> desired in terms of its predictive capabilities.
>>
>> I guess I'm just... I'm not as doomsday-sure as I used to be, let's
>> put it that way.
>>
>> Jerky
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 2:11 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >  ..... And people don't like my political tone or most opinions.....I say FREEZE OUT alll climate change deniers. (get it?, haha)
>> >
>> > https://twitter.com/Evan_Rosenfeld/status/1092788963566211072