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yep, the older you are the better you see through this nonsense. first it was global cooling - fail, then global warming - fail, now climate change which is a mighty convenient catch-all term to be used to justify whatever fake solution is being proposed.

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Peterson et Al (2008) The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling Consensus

Abstract: There was no scientific consensus in the 1970s that the Earth was headed into an imminent ice age. Indeed, the possibility of anthropogenic warming dominated the peer-reviewed literature even then.

Source: https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/11584/1/2008bams2370%252E1...

> yep, the older you are the better you see through this nonsense.

older people by and large make up the largest proportion of victims to online scams.

young people are too poor to be worth scamming, take that boomer

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