Stewart’s nitpicking on climate change just boosts the risk | The Salt Lake Tribune
His begins with a straw man — climate has changed naturally in the past, so the Earth has "no ideal temperature." Climate scientists never claimed any such thing. Instead, they warn that Earth’s ecosystems and human civilizations are now adapted to a certain narrow temperature range, and rapid, sustained temperature change can make it difficult to adapt.Flashback: The idiocy of crowds or, rather, the idiocy of (crowded) debates | ThinkProgress
[Philip Stott] But I just want you to have one image, and it’s a very serious scientific image, I want you to think of the world… I want you to think of the world from inner Siberia, to Greenland, then to Singapore, and then come to the Arab states and to Sahara. What, ladies and gentlemen, is the temperature range I have just covered. It is from minus 20 degrees C, to nearly 50 degrees C, a range of 70 degrees C, in which humanity has adapted and learnt to live. [APPLAUSE] We are talking about, ignoring the extremes that Oliver said, a prediction of 2 to 3 degrees C, what a funk! [LAUGHTER, [APPLAUSE]
I’m very serious, what a funk! Humanity lives successfully from Greenland to Singapore to Saudi Arabia. 70 degrees C...
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