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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

New from Kathleen Stock: I am too dumb for climate change

Climate change discourse leaves me cold

Kathleen Stock
AUG 14 2026
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Inevitably, the usuals are using the fifth heatwave of the English summer to hammer home their preferred theories about the origins of about climate change. But I can't be bothored to attend, and it isn't just because of the brain fog. *I find it impossible to navigate such large-scale intellectual terrain, where the very nature of the problem is radically contested, let alone the solutions.*

Whether apocalyptic or deflationary, every point in this area seems to be delivered with identical confidence, in
equally technical language. So who do you trust? A popular way to negotiate the thicket seems to be to pick the political side you hate most, then lampoon everything its representatives say on the matter, and conclude the opposite must be right. Unfortunately, though, I dislike Right and Left equally for different reasons, so that doesn't much help.

Gooop @gooop.net · 16/08/2026

Great reading on this exact climate denial strategy: Merchants of Doubt

The cover of Merchants of Doubt by Napmi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway