A Little Advice for Deniers

There's no shame in being ignorant. We are all of us, even the most learned, aware of but a fraction of the entire wealth of human understanding, and that knowledge base is itself a woefully inadequate, vanishingly small, infinitesimal fragment of what the universe has to teach us.

Not knowing every last fact about the climate and how we are changing it for the worse is not a crime, or even an urgent problem per se.

But here's the catch. Here's where you screwball deniers go terribly wrong all the time...

When the vast majority of people who do understand climate change explain the undeniable facts as they stand, and you start running your mouths and keyboards saying and posting all kinds of "contradictory," cherry-picked hogwash, instead of listening to and absorbing the lessons, you go from being forgivably uninformed to obnoxiously idiotic trolls.

That behavior is an urgent problem, because it's not innocent, understandable ignorance, it's premeditated science denial. Rather than opening your mind to what you were being told, you were gearing up for a pathetically inept tirade of illiterate, retaliatory blatherskite.

So the advice, in short, is for you to shut yer flappin' yaps, which race about in constant, mindless overdrive, and pay attention when the adults are talking.

It's that simple. And you're welcome.