Poll: Should Deniers Be Allowed To Post In E&E?

[SorellaLaBefana]

119. That would seem most appropriate

for at this juncture to deny the evidence for fossil fuel fueled climate change is quite analogous to being (as our probable new Secretary of Health describes himself) a "vaccine skeptic"—a similarly delusional cult belief.

Vaccination (and before it variolation) has saved millions from an early grave, whilst the fossil fuel industry has directly put hundreds of thousands in the ground, and indirectly quite likely millions more. As the climate crisis unfolds tens (if not hundreds) of millions may well perish.

My understanding is that the first thought that fossil fuel might possibly impact the climate of the world was raised at the end of the 19th century by the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius. By mid-Twentieth century true concerns were being raised...
https://www.livescience.com/humans-first-warned-about-climate-change