Climate change couch potatoes employ a variety of tactics to delay action. They sow fear, uncertainty, and doubt. They claim that dissent is being suppressed and that the evidence for climate change isn't clear.1 I don't know whether Talking Squid had climate change couch potatoes in mind when he illustrated how to change a clear trend
into a graph designed to sow confusion. but take a look at the graph above and the one below and ask yourself, "Doesn't this remind me of the obfuscation typical of climate change couch potatoes?" To quote the (sarcastic) conclusion:
into a graph designed to sow confusion. but take a look at the graph above and the one below and ask yourself, "Doesn't this remind me of the obfuscation typical of climate change couch potatoes?" To quote the (sarcastic) conclusion:
Evidence is your friend. More evidence means more cutoffs to choose from, more trends to analyse, more phases to count, more outliers to discover, and more confusion to sow. Be careful to disguise the fact that you and not the data are the source of the confusion.
1Recently, you've begun to hear a different approach. "Climate change? Yeah, it's happening alright, but it's too late to stop it, so we might as well go on living."
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