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Why this new meme on social media is not just wrong, but belittling

Anthony Watts / 18 hours ago 

By Donna Laframboise, from her Facebook page

Among the Good Kind WUWT contributors Donna Laframboise admires are Jo Nova and her husband David Evans, who tout a hedge fund for climate contrarians

This photo is making the rounds at the moment. People I love and admire have posted it. Good people. Kind people. So I’m going to try to explain why it’s counter productive.

As a journalist I have followed the climate debate closely for a decade. When I research a topic, I dig deep. I assure you, it has never been the position of skeptics that ‘climate change isn’t real.’ That is a fundamental misrepresentation.

The climate has always changed. The last Ice Age was a mere 12,000 years ago. From this perspective, the claim that climate change is ‘caused by humans’ strikes skeptics as profoundly scientifically illiterate, a case of puny humanity exaggerating its importance on a planet whose climate was doing its own thing *billions* of years before humans even appeared.

The real question is: What portion of current climate change is caused by humanity?

Despite research costing billions, science cannot answer this question.