Are climate change denialists all drunk all the time?
Increasingly, as I read threads relating to climate change the responses from denialists have become shriller and shriller, words are slurred, offers to fight becoming more common, vomiting on the floor not out of the question.
And hesitatingly offering a quiet rebuttal of some nonsense quickly gets you arguing with the town drunk/village idiot in the corner of the bar. "Greenland. Used to be ... Wotsis? green, thass it. Greenland useta be green. Didn't know that didya, Mr smarty ecofascist"?
You say "Um, well, no, it didn't, the icecap is very thick and was there at least 119,000 years before the Vikings".
"Rubbish, green, all over, cows everywhere. Anyway climate is always .... Hey Fred, what is it climate is always doing? Changing, that's it. Always changing. Them geologists, smart fellows, had to explain to Mr Fat Gore that climate changes. Didn't know apparently. Nor that alarmist Hansen fellow."
You reply "Uh, actually everyone did know that ..."
"No they didn't. Thought it was all new. Coulda told them - remember a hot year when I was a boy. Very hot. There you are ... And them fellows somewhere who were cooking the books. Ha ha, get it, cooking the books, they admitted they had hidden the fact that isn't getting warm, getting cold in fact, much colder than that Midlevel warm period. Couldn't tell because they had crook computers, and they'd stuck all their therm ..., thermo ... thermomometers over steam vents in NY. You know, those vents that blew Marilyn's skirt up, hee hee hee. Funny place to put a therm ... thermo....., oh, never mind, know what I'd like to have put ... never mind. Snort, slurp, burp, where was I? Oh yes, there's snow outside in't there? Not goin' to get snow if things are gettin' warm are ya, stands to reason. Cold enough to play ice hockey like they did in the ice age in the 1970s 'cept they broke all the hockey sticks them scientist fellows. "
"Anyway, CO2 is good for you, makes plants grow. Breathe it in and out, we do, like this ... See, like a food, isn't it, breath. Be trying to stop me breathing next, that Marxist Obama."
"Just wanna take over the world you lot, Hitler youth, like that funny English fellow said. Take over the world and kill everybody. Gonna have them panels, death panels, kill everone off who doesn't believe their lies."
"Shoutin, who's shoutin? You lookin at me?"
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