Outrageous statements are those folks' careers

January 21, 2016 11:41 AM

Warming to an Idea: "The obvious problem was that you weren't asking this guy to change his mind. You were asking him to give up the somewhat lucrative profession on which he had based the last 20+ years of his life and you were asking him to admit he'd been a fool."

Mark Evanier on climate change in particular and denialist culture in general.

posted by Flexagon (5 comments total)

From the first link:

>Slowly but surely, some Climate Change deniers are coming around.

It doesn't matter what they believe now. They've done their job and have been discarded.
New tools are being discovered or created or recruited.
posted by the Real Dan at 12:08 PM on January 21, 2016 [6 favorites]

It still amazes me that some of the most concisely intelligent commentary on the Internet comes from the writer of Groo the Wanderer*, producer of Garfield cartoons and creator considered most responsible for Scrappy Doo. And he does it without comments on his blog (although he does apparently read all his email and frequently responds to it in the blog, the poor soul).

*although his recent 'Groo Vs. Conan' mini-series was classic if only for its 'b-story' which required his artist/partner Sergio Aragones to depict HIMSELF as a raving lunatic.
posted by oneswellfoop at 12:28 PM on January 21, 2016 [2 favorites]

Most people, when "proven" wrong will change their narrative rather than their position.
"I never said that", "you misinterpreted/misrepresented my comments", "it's not that simple" etc.
The last denier I met - a liberal lawyer of all things - said "of course it's getting warmer, it's been getting warmer since the last ice age. Doesn't make it our fault."
I didn't wait to find out why CO2 was increasing.
It isn't going to end with a lot of folks changing their minds all of a sudden. Like me and you, they'll just die.
posted by Alter Cocker at 3:26 PM on January 21, 2016 [1 favorite]

It isn't going to end with a lot of folks changing their minds all of a sudden. Like me and you, they'll just die.

We're all gonna die.
posted by clawsoon at 4:52 PM on January 21, 2016

newsfromme.com? I thought it would be Squeaky-er.
posted by scruss at 5:30 AM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]