Even if we somehow manage through great effort to prevent the worst effects from climate change, these morons will just take that as proof that it was all a hoax.

There's no winning with those people.

He’s probably not even real. Likely just a bot meant to push public opinion to not take climate change seriously.

Yup. Dudes that live in their little small towns and think they can just intuit, via “common sense”, how the whole rest of the world works; from physics to systemic racism and all stops in between.

You are a bunch of overconfident dumbasses who can’t admit you don’t know something.

The problem is billionaires who fund propaganda that deflect blame off of themselves and to plastic bags and straws.

We could literally kill one billionaire and them not using a private jet alone it would offset enough carbon for everyone on the entire planet for a year or so.

Honestly people being like him being scammed into believing bullshit is a result of big industrials controlling the media. That's where you need some stringent new laws with penalty's that have teeth. Manipulating public opinion to believe in scientific nonsense should be punishable and also after decades later. I see big oil corporations being broken up and using the money to fund some more education of scientific principles to common folks so they are able to make an informed decision at the polls. Also introduce ranked choice voting to reduce dependency of politicians on Corp donations.

This is actually a pretty normal conversation for anyone on the internet, including those of us who hold PhDs.

It's so unusual to have somebody about bullshit in your area and then realize wait a minute this person's never even pursued a degree. In anything