Tom Ellis
1 min readJan 18, 2024

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A good analysis of the “camps” into which opinions about the climate crisis currently fall, but I was annoyed from the outset when you used the phrase “believe in climate change.” This verb implies, falsely, that there is reasonable doubt about its existence, like “belief in ghosts” or “belief in extraterrestrial life.” But there is NO reasonable doubt among scientists and other thinking people that climate change is real, is accelerating, and is caused by a huge spike in global CO2 and methane emissions worldwide from our fossil fuel-based industrial civilization over the past century, sending the atmospheric carbon level to nearly twice the high point (280 ppm) of the long geological carbon cycle for which we have found direct, measured evidence in the 800,000-year old Earth bubbles of Antarctic ice cores. Today it is between 415 to 420 ppm—and that spike has occurred in a geological eyeblink! The ONLY reason a lot of Americans refuse to accept the reality of (not “believe in”!) global heating is that they are brainwashed 24/7 by corporate-funded media outlets like Fox “News” who have everything to gain from sowing denial by smearing real science as “Woke” propaganda! So please stop lying by calling the climate crisis a question of “belief.”

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Tom Ellis
Tom Ellis

Written by Tom Ellis

I am a retired English professor now living in Oregon, and a life-long environmental activist, Buddhist, and holistic philosopher.

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