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Climate Change is Making Us Stupid

Roger Pielke Jr. · 21 Aug 2026

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  1. Our reading

    The notion of climate change has collapsed discussions of complex environmental-social-political issues into a cartoonish characterization of climate change as an all-purpose causal agent.

    Their wordsThe notion of climate change has collapsed our discussions of complex environmental-social-political issues into a cartoonish characterization of "climate change" as an all-purpose causal agent responsible for just about everything that people don't like

  2. Our reading

    How people talk and think about climate change has become less intelligent.

    Their wordsHow we talk, and apparently think, about climate change has become stupider.

  3. Our reading

    The NASEM has defined "climate change" in a way that makes detection and attribution unnecessary or assumed.

    Their wordsThe NASEM has defined "climate change" in a way that makes detection (a la IPCC) unnecessary and attribution (a la IPCC) assumed away.

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