These folks look at stuff at this moment as if that is indicative of a trend. Geologic trends last tens of thousands of years. We are currently rising out of an ice in a long trend. We are in the middle of a solar minimum, and that will reverse.
Freakin’ people think just because it’s happening to them it’s never happened before. They are fools.
Sadly, I spend a great deal of effort trying to combat the nonsense that our kids, grand-kids, nephews and nieces have bought into. But its not just the youngsters who are influenced by leftist propaganda. As is demonstrated in this thread there are plenty of older folks who buy into the fear mongering as well.
One would presume that those old enough to witness the shift from the fear mongering over “man-made global cooling” to “man-made global warming” might have learned something from the spectacle. There is something in human nature which has caused people in ancient civilizations up to current civilizations to presume that man has control over natural processes which we do not fully understand. The Incas believed that by cutting out the hearts of young children and “sacrificing” the innocent that they could influence the climate. In our own illustrious past mostly women were burned at the stake after they were blamed for colder than normal weather that caused crop failure and famine.
The insanity continues today with abundant fuel being denied to elderly people living on pensions in Great Britain to the point that dozens die every winter from lack of heat in their tiny homes. And this is primarily because of increases in energy costs which are related to that government's obsession over theories that CO2 is causing “global warming”, “ocean acidification”, increased nasty weather in general, and any number of other unrelated problems. And as we have seen repeatedly on this forum, even people who are older and consider themselves conservatives often buy into this nonsense.
Where we live we are forced to put up with scores of “virtue signaling” people who have purchased expensive Teslas and “hybrids” and believe they are better than those of us who choose not to squander our money. And then we have those who endeavor to stymie any energy infrastructure improvements because they believe that will increase the cost of energy which they think is somehow helpful to the environment.
The nonsense we put up with because of propaganda put out by the left whose real intent is to eventually control every aspect of daily living is absolutely astounding. So I believe it is important to rebut the nonsense that even some here continue to spread. Yes the world has plenty of problems, but “ocean acidification” and “climate change” as presented by our leftist media are both complete BS theories which are not scientifically credible.