1) It distorts the science.
2) It's completely apolitical.
3) It contradicts itself: is the apocalypse coming or should we all start local farmers markets?
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![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ED-Sa2CWsAY6ZcD.jpg)
Franzen claims that climate change will spin "completely out of control" if the planet heats to somwhere around 2°C.
This is flat-out wrong.
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![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ED-SqVMXkAAlUS_.jpg)
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![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ED-TE-OXUAMqk1O.jpg)
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![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ED-Td6RW4AAHAyh.jpg)
(Although I don't know why I'm surprised.)
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They project temperature across a confidence *range*.
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![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ED-T6AkXkAAXG-n.jpg)
(On that note, there's also a misspelling in this sentence, and someone concerned with clarity needs to tell Franzen that "brain" is not "mind.")
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![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ED-Uzi6XsAAZ2vz.jpg)
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It's an aesthetic choice.
It's a political choice.
10/n
They're just lazy and entitled.
(And selfish, too, also selfish.)
11/n
Those people imagine the apocalypse too.
They think about death, like, constantly.
But then they say to the god of death...
10/n
Just go read @amywestervelt, you'll get it.
popula.com/2019/08/19/the…
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You know else who cites ethonol subsidies to argue climate action is hopeless? Br*t Stephens.
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But of course he does!
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![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ED-X2-dW4AI-5D1.png)
slate.com/technology/201…
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As if a planet subjected to runaway global heating would have CSA veggie box delivery.
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Just because Franzen's a novelist who likes birds doesn't mean he deserves to write crap and have it published. Especially not in the @NewYorker.
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