Thread by @SteB777

I need to re-iterate this simple fact, because the repeated denial of this easily defined fact is causing mass confusion in our society - leading to climate crisis denial - and a basic misunderstanding of what it is.

How can anyone, not understand something so simple?
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https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/1673976266456694786

I will repeat this basic concept, as it is so widely misunderstood.

The description of anthropogenic climate change ACC, caused by the human burning of fossil fuels and other activity, leading to the build up of CO2 and CH4 in the atmosphere is well established.
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As is the radiative forcing, this increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the greenhouse effect, leads to. It is the steady increase in greenhouse gases, which leads to this radiative forcing, and an increase in climate warming.

3/climate.mit.edu/explainers/rad…

This is all fairly uncontroversial physics, unless for ideological reasons, you chose to actively deny the well established physics, with false argument i.e. sophistry.
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In a rational society/civilization, the establishment of this certain scientific reality, and that it will lead to dangerous warming, unless these human emissions are drastically reduced - would have led to a huge reduction in emissions causing this warming.
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Unfortunately, our supposed leaders and governments have not acted in a rational and appropriate way, and emissions have been allowed to dramatically rise, creating a crisis, which wouldn't otherwise exist, if our leadership had responded rationally.
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This irrational denial, and the refusal to respond rationally is driven by the self and vested interest of the corporations and billionaires, profiting from fossil fuel burning, and the fossil fuel economy. They have massive power and control over our current system.
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It's not just that our leadership, governments, corporations and the corporate and billionaire controlled media have not responded rationally and appropriately over the last 30+ years. They continue to obstruct appropriate action and change.
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This is why it's a climate crisis, and part of a much bigger ecological crisis. It is only a crisis because of this irrational refusal to act appropriately, because of self and vested interests, and that these forces have such control over our governments and economic systems.
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Climate crisis deniers, often try to get clever and demand that you reference scientific papers that describe this as a crisis. Of course, they don't, because this irrational denial, leading to a crisis, is not studied by physical science.
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The challenge is how do establishment scientists and organizations, react to government leaders acting irrationally, when the whole premise upon which they operate, is that government act rationally, and respond appropriately to evidence?
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In other words, the crisis is entirely due to the irrational and inappropriate response from our system of governance, and those with the power and control of our societies. This is why the crisis is not described by physical science. Not that it isn't real.
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The climate crisis, and indeed the wider ecological crisis, is real and tangible. It's just that it is not based in physical science, but by the corrupt behaviour of people sworn to protect the public interest.
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I hope now, I have clearly defined what the climate crisis is, and that it is real and tangible, even if science can't describe it, because it results from the irrational and corrupt behaviour of the most powerful people in our societies, who hold the reins of power.
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