So, a group of scientists have concluded the recent European heat wave was made worse by human caused warming. Some, like myself, trust(I am not a climate scientist; I can only try my hardest to understand the reasoning offered to support the conclusions). Others apparently believe in a broad based conspiracy, in which hundreds of scientists, world wide, are engaged in a political effort to control mankind. Well, again, there is not much I can do to reason with people who believe is such ponderous conspiracies involving so many credentialed researchers acting in concert to fool the human race.
https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEJig5dMkOyXdgyrh7MIiHPQqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow4uzwCjCF3bsCMIrOrwM?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en
I have little patience for anti-conspiracy theorist prognostications.
This is Game's little nut. Conspiracies exist in some sense whenever anyone winks at anyone else with some little inside joke..... all it takes is a few people with a similar world view, or a specific interest to promote.
The present situation in science, in which it is popular, or somehow beneficial, to hop on the climate change political hackwagon, is nothing more than lazy convenience for most "believers", whose only common trait might be credulousity. Expert credulousity though it may be.
I think things are changing. I believe, despite some concerns about data collection and management, that our planetary atmosphere is warming, as most of the hackwagon crowd believes. I just don't think it is such a crisis that would justify doing all the wrong things politically all around the world.
You can't have a valid objection to people who notice what amounts to, essentially, a sociological or educational "consensus" to just characterize the valid observation as something it is not. There is not a /// need not be any//// kind of "vast rightwing conspiracy" or even "vast leftwing conspiracy" where your opponents gather in the dark of night by the millions to decide what tricks to pull politically in this world.
All you need is to get the view pushed by some bought-and-paid-for "community organizer groups". Well, maybe a few thousand like-minded believers pushing the cause. But a bunch of interested bureaucrats and do-gooder outfits can really get it cooking. Especially if someone with a huge wad of cash is backing a set of such groups. George Soros..... Bill Gates.....Oprah..... a few media owners....like this set....
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/may/31/new-york-billionaire-philanthropists
Nowadays, it's not just Hillary complaining about conspiracies to oppose her husband.... it's several prominent news organizations..... seeing Trump as some kind of threat to democracy.
yah, Trump might be an idiot. Certainly he is not on the CFR "good list". And he might be making deals with all kinds of governments around the world. But he has no organization like the progressives have had for over a hundred and fifty years with a distinct world view to push. He's just himself, being himself. And a lot of people are looking for something besides what we have had.....
what he has done, or tried to do, is more in the line of sticking up for what many Americans want, which is very different from a lot of politicians of the "Establishment" sort. I think he came up with his ideas by seeing a trend and deciding to ride it....a fairly significant number of people who want things to be done differently. Somehow.... Anyhow.
But so far I haven't seen how Trumpism is going to last longer than Trump.