According to the Guardian, which prides itself on unbalanced climate coverage, “Dizzying pace of Biden’s climate action sounds death knell for era of denialism”. But at the risk of reanimating the corpse of denialisticismology, or whatever the increasingly long name for thinking for yourself has now become, isn’t this about the 43rd time we’ve been told the debate was finally over so shut up and pay up? And as with failed predictions of vanishing snow, don’t failed predictions of vanishing skepticism eventually become self-defeating to the point of self-parody? Pardon our prolonged, noisy, vulgar death rattle. But that’s denialosophy for you.
OK, to be fair the actual story only said “The Trump years may well have been the death rattle of influential denialism.” So you can dismiss any lingering doubts or questions as not being influential, or as being political rather than scientific, or huddle under that “may well” umbrella as cold water pours down on your claim. Although, speaking of political, there’s a “physician, heal thyself” issue here because the Grauniad said of Biden’s executive orders “The dizzying list of actions demonstrated the breadth and depth of the climate crisis.” But it doesn’t. It demonstrates the breadth and depth of the alarmists’ view of the crisis, and of the remedies they seek to impose.
Including delegitimizing dissent. According to John Schwartz on the New York Times’ “Climate Fwd.”, zombie denialistosity and the Capitol riots are linked: “For those of us who cover climate change for a living, the blatant lies about election fraud that fed the mob felt very familiar. A big part of our job is dealing with the disinformation that people and institutions spread to muddy the waters about climate change. There’s a long and sad history of efforts by industries and interest groups to reshape the discussion of climate science and undercut the overwhelming evidence that greenhouse gases produced by humans are leading us to global catastrophe.” Which is a rather tired conspiracy theory despite a dash of increasingly stale Orange Man Bad.
As for this famous “overwhelming evidence,” the Guardian seeks to surf a rising tide of oceans, storms and public outrage. “The American public’s concern over the climate crisis is at record levels, with even a majority of Republican voters supporting government intervention in the wake of a year of unprecedented wildfires and hurricanes that cost hundreds of lives and tens of billions of dollars.” As for the cost, don’t worry, we’re already there. “‘We are already spending the money, folks,’ Kerry, the former secretary of state who is now Biden’s climate envoy, said of the recent climate-fueled disasters. ‘It’s cheaper to deal with the crisis of climate than to ignore it. This is life or death, a challenge to the fibre of our society. The stakes on climate change couldn’t be any higher than they are now. Failure is literally not an option.’”
Fatuity, of course, is another story. Stay tuned for more uninfluential denialismocity.
Election fraud isn't a conspiracy theory, either. Numerous chain-of-custody problems have been documented for hundreds of thousands of ballots, in precisely those half-dozen cities that Biden had to win in swing states. Huge vote dumps in favour of Biden are in evidence in the public records - in the dead of night, after vote-counting has supposedly been halted in those half-dozen cities in swing states, and after observers had been told to go home.