Denial Ain't A River In Egypt

The stupid, it burns, it burns.

Last November’s election was a referendum on whether we wanted a government based on (R)eality or (R)eligion. We’ve chosen badly, and instead of chemistry and physics, anything that doesn’t go our way will be credited to god’s wrath. The traditional religious solutions of prayer, and mass murder of those who are seen as the “other”, will take the place of building the things we’d need to leave our grandchildren a world in which they can live.

The demolition of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration is a big step towards enhancing our collective recto-cranial inversion. That which is measured improves. That which is ignored can be lied about, greatly facilitating god’s grifter’s in their chosen task. We will, of course, get past this end of the world hysteria, as we did in 1000 AD, 1998 (666 x 3!), 2000, and December 22nd of 2012.

And what will be left is a world in which whatever humans survive have lost roughly a quarter of their cognitive capability by 2100. The end of globalization will also be the end of oil and gas moving easily. There’s a lot of damp, dirty lignite coal still in the ground, and countries without cleaner options will be exhuming as much of it as they can, in order to maintain some sort of 20th century based “normal”.

If the millenarian delusions behind this disastrous course of action had any basis in reality firmer than Nostradamus (a Jew whose family was forced into Catholicism), the calendar of the Mayans (wiped out by Christians), or the latest “prophecies” of Qanon loonies (heretics, at best), I might be worried.

But the idea that everything that matters, in a fourteen billion year old universe made up of a hundred billion galaxies containing a hundred billion stars each, is explained by much edited writings of random desert tribes 1,600 years before we had either microscopes or telescopes … you can probably tell where I’m going with this.

So have a look at Just Have A Think, because the long feared nonlinearity climate scientists have been fretting over for the last decade appears to actually be right here, right now.