Ignoring the Obvious

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The fossil soil at Greenland’s summit, locked beneath nearly two miles of ice, speaks plainly: polar ice sheets can retreat far and fast when the climate tips, and the coastlines of the future will trace that story in real time.

Whether that warning is heeded remains a decision for policy makers and citizens alike.

Eric Ralls
April 22, 2025
Greenland discovery stuns scientists: “Don’t buy a beach house” – Earth.com

I find it very telling that Ralls is presented with, and pontificates on, the fact that all Greenland’s ice melted at least once long before man contributed to climate change. Yet, he uses this data to conclude people are able to, and should, stop it from happening again.

And he is not the only one. Here are others who appear to intentionally ignore the obvious:

The Grist link even has this absurd quote:

Once you melt that Greenland ice sheet, it’s irreversible.

This is like some type of religion with the church members insisting they know the truth via faith. Faith in this context being defined as complete confidence in something without evidence or even in despite evidence to the contrary.

Reality is tough, really tough, but I can only explain this disconnect by willful ignorance.

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10 thoughts on “Ignoring the Obvious”

    • “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
      – Upton Sinclair

  2. Last I checked the planet was supposed to still be in the earlier parts of an interglaciation period … Meaning temperatures were going to get warmer no matter what.

    But what do I know. I’m not that kind of scientist. My stuff has to be able to be shown to work, today.

  4. “SCIENCE adjusts its’ views based on what’s observed; FAITH is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.”

    -Storm, Tim Minchin

  5. Let me reiterate myself once again. Climate changes-all by itself. You didn’t do it. And there is nothing you can stop doing enough to make a detectable change.

  6. Or maybe climate science and biology are to specialize to think about geology?
    As Greenland of today might have been 3-4,000 miles south, 400,000 years ago. Maybe down where England and France are?
    Pole shift, anyone?
    We know for a fact that Wooly mammoths in Alaska were frozen so fast the food in their stomachs was frozen also. It hadn’t rotted.
    As it should have if a creature that size was slowly frozen.
    All human climate change is agenda driven, bought and paid for lies.

  7. I’ve commented repeatedly that the term “climate change” was adopted (replacing “global warming”) because it isn’t falsifiable. Climate change has existed since the Earth acquired an atmosphere, and will continue to exist so long as that atmosphere exists. Ask any dinosaur.

    Apart from that, paleoclimate data (readily available on-line) is very clear: temperatures have varied dramatically throughout the entire time of record. For example, for Greenland we can refer to the GISP-2 data, which is temperature data of the past 50k years obtained from ice cores drilled out of the central Greenland ice sheet. The first 38k years or so of that are ice age, but then about 12k years ago you see a dramatic warmup leading to the current interglacial era. Within that period, temperatures vary up and down by 4 C or so. And looking at the past 10k years, we see that (a) current temperatures are at least 1 C below the average of that period, (b) in the days of Leif Eriksson’s journeys to Greenland it was about average, i.e., 1 C warmer than now, (c) in the days of C. Julius Caesar it was 1 C warmer still, (e) the “pre-industrial” reference point used by the warming cult (including the UN) was — most likely intentionally — taken to be 1850, which is within a fraction of a degree of the coldest of the past 8000 years.

    Or to put it in one sentence: science shows very clearly that anthropogenic climate change is utter fiction.

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