Essay by Eric Worrall
In alarmist fantasy land, climate skeptics have accepted climate models, and now focus on spreading despair.
Too late to save the planet? Why this climate crisis myth is so prevalent – and problematic
Jun 19, 2023
Douglas Broom
Senior Writer, Forum Agenda
- The idea that it’s too late to halt the climate crisis has been gaining ground recently.
- It’s become the most popular cry of former climate change sceptics, say researchers.
- But it’s also the view of many people who want to help, but are overwhelmed by the challenge.
- While the world has been given ‘a final warning’, scientists say there is still time for action, but myths like these are stalling mitigation efforts.
The world has been given a “final warning” about the climate emergency. The United Nations says action is needed “on all fronts – everything, everywhere, all at once”. So why do so many people think nothing can be done to halt climate change?
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‘It’s too late’ – a dominant climate myth
And yet, researchers have found that increasing numbers of people say that it’s too late to save the planet. In fact, it’s become the leading climate myth globally, outpacing arguments that the science is wrong or that rising temperatures are not due to human activity.
A study by academics from the UK, Ireland and the United States found the argument that “it’s too late” had become the dominant climate myth among climate sceptics over the past 10 years and said it was holding back climate action.
Researchers believe critics changed tack because evidence of human-caused climate change has become overwhelming. “Science denial has become untenable,” John Cook, a study author and research fellow at Monash University told Forbes magazine.
“So inevitably, opponents of climate action are strategically shifting to misinformation targeting climate solutions in order to delay climate policy,” he added. “My gut instinct was that science myths were much more prevalent than they actually are, when our analysis found they were a relatively small proportion of climate misinformation.”
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Read more: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/06/too-late-climate-crisis-myth/
I suspect what we’re seeing is actually the growth of quiet climate skepticism.
Climate predictions are garbage. Not only has global warming failed to occur at the predicted rate, there is also a complete absence of evidence that global warming presents an actual problem.
As I’ve repeatedly mentioned, our monkey ancestors spread from the tropics to the high arctic during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, all the way up to Greenland, because 5C+ of global warming turned most of the Earth into a paradise for our warmth loving primate ancestors.
If our monkey ancestors managed to thrive in a much warmer world, there is no doubt we could figure it out.
There are only so many failed end of the world, end of snow and ice free arctic predictions people can accept, before they start taking the latest prognostication with a big grain of salt.
So how do you deflect criticism for your personal lack of climate zeal, if you don’t want to get into a big argument about why climate disaster predictions are a crock of proverbial?
One solution is to say “it’s too late, so why should I bother?”. Believers cannot challenge this assertion – they half believe it themselves – so they leave you alone to your “misery” – you poor thing, you don’t bother recycling anymore because you don’t see the point.
It’s not difficult to trace why people have suddenly become more skeptical. All the lies told during the Covid lockdown, only to discover once the lockdowns were lifted, that what we were dealing with was bad flu?
In the wake of the Covid lies and exaggerations, why should anyone take any government funded scientific claims seriously?
So no, we haven’t abandoned criticising climate models. Most models are running implausibly hot, they’re obviously wrong.
But watching the dying climate alarmism movement flailing about, fabricating nonsensical straw man claims about climate skeptics, trying to blame everything for their own failure other than their personal incompetence, its an entertaining spectacle as we wait for the rising fake AI crisis to take center stage.