Truth will out

Source: NOAA

From Open Mind, Tamino's climate blog:

The deniers lost.

Their credibility is so low that further efforts to deny the truth only make it more obvious. The only people who will buy their utter crap, are those who cannot be reasoned with.

For twelve years I’ve been blogging, mainly to prove how utterly wrong, how empty-headed, how gullible are the “arguments” from climate deniers. I followed others, yet more joined later, and together we did it. They got pwned.

Problem is: in the decades it took to accomplish this, our society, our governments, our world, has not faced the real problem. The problem they were trying so hard to deny all along. Yes, truth will out, but it can take its time getting its shoes on.

Deniers of the crisis of man-made climate change: you have done wrong. You have done evil. Foul deeds will rise, though all the earth o’erwhelm them, to men’s eyes.

Most people aren't convinced, emotionally, by numbers and statistics.  The steady rise in average global temperatures is visible on charts, in the data tables.  But it was only when it started to impact our everyday lives that ordinary people started to believe.  When 100-year floods start happening every couple of years, they notice.  When 100-year droughts happen often, everywhere, they notice.  When heatwaves start killing people in their thousands, they notice.

It's only going to get worse.  The level of CO₂ in the atmosphere keeps on rising, at an accelerating rate.  Global temperatures keep on rising.  Climate extremes are just going to get worse.  The politics of global warming are only going to get more fractious.  The Green New Deal, the 'Stop Adani' caravans—these are just the beginning.  The pressure to do something to reduce carbon, methane and nitrous oxide emissions isn't going to get less.  It's going to intensify.  No country not pulling its weight in this struggle will be allowed to get away with it.  The denialists have lost.