a lack of critical thinking

there are two kinds of denial in our climate

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I am sitting an airport, waiting to board, and listening to a man explain that global warming is all a lie, because, "when you see chunks fall off those glaciers? That has been happening for like, 75, or even 100 years!"

Actually, make that hundreds of thousands of years. And it is called sluffing or calving. And it has less than nothing to do with warming, or cooling, or ice growth, or loss. It has to do with the fact that the glacier is leaving a stable land area and over hanging the water. At that point the weight of the ice overcomes the strength of it, and pieces fall off.

It is hard to prove any fact to man that has an interest in not believing a fact. But the fact remains.