I am tired of reading the same rubbish spouted by climate denialists wherever a news agency publishes a story on climate change and then leaves it open for comment.
The pattern is always the same: some idiot unthinkingly repeats a long-discredited item from their list of sciencey-sounding fallacies, using as much appeal to authority as they can shoe-horn in, usually whilst really trying to sound as though they know their stuff (they always fail) and often in CAPS!!!!!!!!!. Then some well-meaning person who understands the science will patiently try and explain to them why they are wrong and supply them with the evidence that proves it. But it never works, because the denialist canard cannot be argued with logic as it stems from illogic, greed and wishful thinking. The ignorant fool will just go off to another comment thread, their Opinion unsullied by truth, and continue to spout the same tired lines.
Such people are not interested in genuine debate; they are trolling – nothing more nothing less. It is time the moderators of such fora started treating them as such and denied them their soap box.
They may be ignorant in their folly, unaware of how the astroturf organisations they so gullibly follow were set up by Big Oil and Big Coal to orchestrate their performances, but they are none-the-less willing mouthpieces for such dishonest groups.
It isn’t censorship: no-one is denying these people their right to believe such dangerous rubbish, nor to set up their own forum where they can reinforce each other’s ideologies to their heart’s content, but it is time the mainstream press grabbed their editorial balls in each hand and made a stand. It is time they made repeating such rubbish against the house rules and started deleting them when they turn up.
We have tried to argue and but their fingers are in their ears. The science is in, it is not up for debate any longer, it is time such views were accorded the respect they deserve and kicked into touch.
