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  Why Waste Time On Climate Change Deniers?

  Why do we continue to play this little game of trying to convince the deniers that the climate is changing as a result of human intervention?

  These deniers/sceptics are an underwhelming minority but the fact is that the more we prove that human induced climate change is real, the more these people are going to deny it. It's like a religion - they have "faith" that they are right. Do we really think the minority of deniers, albeit some in very powerful political or corporate positions, are going to change their mind? Of course they won't. In fact, they'll even go to the extent of paying someone to come up with their own science to prove to their supporters and those that sit on the fence that climate change is all very natural and nothing to do with humans.

  I actually think we'd be better off using our time to explain the non-scientific reason why everyone needs to take action...the decline in natural resources. We are simply running out of resources to help us live. Demand for resources such as fossil fuels, trees, agricultural land, residential land, land for waste landfill etc etc is far greater than the earth's ability to supply it. It is the fundamental rationale behind why we need to be more energy efficient, water efficient, waste efficient etc etc.

  You might find that the deniers find it hard to argue this logic as everyone understands the rationale behind this problem - it's high-school mathematics, not doctorate science. In other words, the deniers can't get away with telling fence sitters that this isn't a problem when everyone knows that it is. Well, everyone would know that it is if we stopped wasting our time trying to explain the climate change science. And because it hits an economic note (ie prices increase for resources that start running out), many of the deniers from an economic background start sitting up and taking notice.

  Of course, as it turns out, preaching the need to live more sustainably based on declining natural resources will ultimately address climate change as well ... you just don't need to tell the deniers and fence sitters that it will!

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  On A look at the non-experts speaking at Heartland Institute's denialist sideshow posted 9 months ago 23 Responses

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  It ain't drought - its permanent

  Drought implies that the meteorological and agricultural conditions that exist in places like California's Central Valley are temporary (maybe months, maybe years) and that there will be a return to "business as usual" when the drought stops. With climate change, maybe the drought like conditions many regions around the world are experiencing is permanent - it is the drought that should be considered "business as usual". Policies like the ones suggested in this article should therefore be permanent ones, not temporary ones that people only have to put up with until the drought finishes.

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  On As reservoirs fall, water prices should rise posted 9 months ago 3 Responses