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Considering the period of concern over global cooling (from last century), claims of "we've known this, but have pretended not to for a hundred years" are just historical revisionism. When you lie about facts in favor of pushing a "more important truth" you don't convince people. You just give people more reason to doubt other things you're claiming.

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The fact is that oil companies have been knowingly sabotaging the discourse and scientific process about this in a similar way that the tobacco companies kept 'having the debate' for as long as possible to not change their business model, externalities be damned.

To downplay this is the real historical revisionism and lie

Combined with the apocalyptic histrionics of "we've only got ten more years before it's too late forever, we have to do something now!"

And that something being banning lawn mowers...

"Just don't talk about nuclear power, it's yucky, we're way past that and on to renewables + unspecified future quantum leaps in battery technology + a complete, multi-decade revamp in how our grid operates, mkay?"

(Also known as the 'environmentalist' take on tackling climate change)

Huh what? It is never too late to do something and try to improve, sure, but it actually is practically already now too late to not crash the 2° goal.

I'd really be more empathetic to the ones who will need to inhabit this future and not turn this into ridicule, even if you won't be there then..

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