Climate Nuremburg
April 13, 2014 4:54 PM   Subscribe

In the spirit of the Landover Baptist Church, we now present Climate Nuremburg, dedicated to the proposition that climate change deniers should be tried for crimes against humanity.

"Part of being a science communicator is hoping a natural disaster kills as many members of the audience as possible, as soon as possible, with as much media exposure as possible. As a communicator myself, I’d like nothing better than for thousands of middle-class white people to die in an extreme weather event—preferably one with global warming’s fingerprints on it—live on cable news. Tomorrow."

"The hardest thing about communicating the deadliness of the climate problem is that it isn’t killing anyone. And just between us, let’s be honest: the average member of the public is a bit (how can I put it politely?) of a moron. It’s all well and good for the science to tell us global warming is a bigger threat than Fascism was, but Joe Q. Flyover doesn’t understand science. He wants evidence."
posted by Chocolate Pickle (13 comments total)

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Joe Q. Flyover

Thanks for using "Midwestern" as a code-word for "stupid."
posted by themanwho at 5:07 PM on April 13, 2014 [6 favorites]


The hardest thing about communicating the deadliness of the climate problem is that it isn’t killing anyone.

It's killing plenty of people. They're just in the developing and third worlds so nobody with any power to change anything gives a shit.
posted by Talez at 5:13 PM on April 13, 2014 [3 favorites]


Oh boy are conservatives trying that humor thing again?
posted by kmz at 5:14 PM on April 13, 2014 [2 favorites]


Er, not to quibble -- well okay I admit it entirely to quibble -- but Landover Baptist is a pitch-perfect satire on fundamentalist Christianity that works because it never breaks kayfabe, it's easily mistakable as a product of it instead of a hilarious reaction to it.

This either doesn't have a kayfabe, or it's actually a satire that pretends that climate change deniers should be tried for crimes against humanity, because it's making fun of people who actually think that? But arguably they are causing lasting harm by weakening our will to do something about how we're hurting the environment.
posted by JHarris at 5:17 PM on April 13, 2014 [1 favorite]


Landover Baptist:This site::Daily Show/Colbert Report:That failed Fox News satire show.

Unless the whole thing is a satire on how bad right-wingers are at satire.
posted by kmz at 5:26 PM on April 13, 2014 [1 favorite]


It's killing plenty of people. They're just in the developing and third worlds so nobody with any power to change anything gives a shit.

And, you know, France.
posted by Sys Rq at 5:30 PM on April 13, 2014 [1 favorite]


Thanks for using "Midwestern" as a code-word for "stupid."
I think that's sort of the joke (such as it is), there.

This thing seems symptomatic of a bit of a shift in the climate debate: it's become so utterly impossible to contradict the mountain of evidence for anthropogenic climate change that the argument has become more about tone. The claim (and variants of it can be heard on both sides) seems to be something along the lines of "we'd accept the science if only you would stop being such misanthropic elitists!" That's well and good as far as it goes, but one side seems to be defining "misanthropic elitism" as "providing documentary evidence".
posted by multics at 5:32 PM on April 13, 2014 [1 favorite]


Yeah, and I always knew New Jersey was a third-world country.
posted by localroger at 5:33 PM on April 13, 2014


After reading Brad's "About" page:

I'm impressed. Most of the Climate Deniers in the public eye have the Koch Brothers' hand so far up their asses you can see fingernails when they open their mouths - they don't know whether climate science is true or not, and they don't much care either. But you sir, I tip my hat to you. You are a True Climate Science Denier Believer. *Slowly backs out of the room and shuts the door quietly.*
posted by Salvor Hardin at 5:50 PM on April 13, 2014 [1 favorite]


So this is being put out by climate change deniers who want to portray those who believe in climate change as being equal to those would trivialize the holocaust? Is this supposed to support conservatives in their efforts to believe they are the real victims?

Because I can't get any other handle on this.
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 5:52 PM on April 13, 2014


This is poorly done. Booooo, bad post, booooo!
posted by benito.strauss at 6:00 PM on April 13, 2014


I love how "climate change deniers" just use this spaghetti mess of rationales that the earth hasn't warmed, that the warming has slowed or stopped, that more warming would be good, that it's warming but not caused by humans, that it's warming caused by humans but we can't do anything about it or doing anything would be really burdensome. Pick 1-3 of above.

You'd think the deniers would be eager to clarify what exactly it is they're denying, but somehow as long as the punchline is they get to keep driving their SUV out to their oversized house in the suburbs without any guilt, that's their argument!
posted by crayz at 6:05 PM on April 13, 2014


It's weird to see something I literally believe as true, presented as obvious, over-the-top satire. I guess this is what it's like to be a Republican.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 6:07 PM on April 13, 2014 [4 favorites]


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