Arguing With Stupid People

DURING THE PAST FIFTY YEARS the North American bird population has declined by two billion, and nearly half of Europe's insect population has disappeared. Bees, butterflies, frogs, fireflies, among many other delicate bellwether species are facing precipitous decline, and impending extinction. Planet earth is undergoing the sixth mass extinction in natural history, only this time, it isn't natural, its human made, only natural to the extent that humanity is. Simultaneously, the world's oceans are rising, swallowing land throughout the world, as both polar ice caps and glaciers melt, each year is hotter than the previous, endless cycles of drought, out of control wildfires, and torrential rains and floods, extreme weather events, ravage the globe with alarming regularity. Scientists, using copious research, can now tell which events are caused by climate change, and to what extent they are exacerbated by it. All these various manifestations of carbon based climate change are well known to those paying attention. In North America, October is now a summer month, and spring begins in late February. Meanwhile, legions of moronic idiots, mostly American evangelical conservatives, motivated by arrogance, fantasy, and greed, spew inane alternative scenarios, without even the slightest knowledge of or support of scientific fact. It all doesn't matter; the Lord is coming soon. Man climate change deniers have deluded themselves into believing that since climate change is natural, and therefore human control, humanity cannot possibly have any impact on it, a purely absurd notion. As if natural occurring floods and wildfires preclude them from having human origins as well. Such fols consider it arrogant to believe that puny human activity can possibly effect the massive planet; in fact, they are the arrogant ones, for denying science because of their failure to understand it and refusal to accept it. An especially insane pseudo theory circulating among the alternative reality community is that climate change is caused by fluctuations in solar activity, as if any of these loonies had ever set foot in a chemistry, physics, or solar science classroom. we are assured by the actual solar scientific professionals that indeed there has been no measurable change in solar output. Mark Twain said it best, as he often did: "Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level, and beat you with experience."