Climate Science Isn’t a Religion. It’s Physics. 🌎
Weather too hot? Weather too cold? Too much rain? Drought?
Climate deniers love to ridicule the science while ignoring the physics. But climate science isn’t about blaming every weather event on global warming. It’s about understanding the measurable physical processes connecting Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, ice, and ecosystems.
📊 10 FRAMES. FOLLOW THE PHYSICS. TEST THE CLAIMS.
This slideshow breaks down the science:
🌍 Human CO₂ emissions and rising atmospheric concentrations.
🔥 Greenhouse forcing and Earth’s growing energy imbalance.
🌊 Ocean warming, melting ice, and changing circulation.
🌀 Interconnected climate feedbacks that can amplify change.
🔬 Atmospheric carbon-14 and the physics of CO₂ radiative forcing.
🦋 The butterfly effect: how changes in interconnected systems can propagate far beyond their origin.
Natural variability is real. Climate has changed throughout Earth’s history. Neither fact explains away the measurable human contribution to today’s global warming.
The challenge to climate deniers is simple: If you dispute the science, engage with the evidence. Explain the physical mechanisms. Quantify your alternative explanation. Show your work.
Laughing emojis aren’t scientific evidence. Neither are unsupported claims about research funding.
CLAIMS AREN’T EVIDENCE. FOLLOW THE DATA.
MILLIONS → BILLIONS → TRILLIONS OF POSSIBLE FEEDBACK INTERACTIONS.
Feedback coupling is emerging. Understanding how these connections develop, interact, and amplify change is one of the major challenges in climate science.
Watch the Climate Physics Simplified Slideshow
[Intro]
Climate denier said…
(What’d he say?)
Climate denier said…
(Another day!)
Got a claim?
(Bring the proof!)
Got a theory?
(Show the truth!)
[Verse 1]
Weather too hot?
(It’s global warming!)
Weather too cold?
(Still global warming!)
Too much rain?
(It’s global warming!)
Drought again?
(It’s global warming!)
What’s the question?
(Doesn’t matter!)
Same old answer
(Noise and chatter!)
Calls it religion
(Calls science a creed)
But dodges the evidence
(He doesn’t want to read!)
[Refrain]
The climate denier said:
(Doi! I’m braindead)
No, no scientific literacy
(Out of touch… with reality)
I spend my days
(Finding lame ways)
Fighting the facts
(Coached by the quacks)
Watch me shout!
(And rant about)
No! No know!
[Verse 2]
All happened before
(That’s his refrain!)
Natural variability
(Blamed once again!)
Where’s your attribution?
(Show me the proof!)
He asks for evidence
(Then hides from the truth!)
Grant money conspiracy
(That’s his big story!)
Laughing emojis
(His claim to glory!)
But here’s a question
(Answer it straight!)
What does carbon-14
(Reveal about our fate?)
¹⁴C!
(Where’d it go?)
Fossil carbon!
(What do you know?)
Now here’s the formula
(Do the math!)
Five-point-three-five
(… the radiative forcing path!)
Delta F equals
(5.35 times the log!)
C over C-zero
(That’s the CO₂ job!)
[Refrain]
The climate denier said:
(Doi! I’m braindead)
No, no scientific literacy
(Out of touch… with reality)
I spend my days
(Finding lame ways)
Fighting the facts
(Coached by the quacks)
Watch me shout!
(And rant about)
No! No know!
Millions to billions
(Trillions in play!)
The butterfly effect
(Can carry change far away!)
No single starting point!
(No single end!)
No simple prediction
(Of how all systems blend!)
The network’s complex
(The science is clear!)
We study the pathways
(As the risks appear!)
But the denier says…
(It’s all a scam!)
With no quantitative evidence
(And no testable plan!)
Show your work!
(Show your work!)
State your hypothesis!
(Test what you assert!)
Natural variability?
(Quantify!)
Human attribution?
(Don’t deny!)
Evidence!
(Not conspiracy!)
Measurements!
(Not mockery!)
[Final Refrain]
The climate denier said:
(Doi! I’m braindead)
No, no scientific literacy
(Out of touch… with reality)
I spend my days
(Finding lame ways)
Fighting the facts
(Coached by the quacks)
Watch me shout!
(And rant about)
No! No know!
The climate denier said:
(Just look away!)
The evidence said:
(It’s measured every day!)
The climate denier said:
(It’s all been before!)
The science said:
(Explain what’s happening now!)
[Outro]
You want proof?
(Show your work!)
You want science?
(Test your claim!)
Laughing emojis
(Are really lame!)
Natural variability?
(Math. Let’s see…)
Human attribution?
(Your contribution)
No more slogans…
(No more smoke…)
Show your work!
Climate denier said…
(Then science led.)
About the Song
Climate denier said:
“Weather too hot? Global warming. Weather too cold? Global warming. Too much rain? Global warming. Drought? Global warming. What’s the question? Doesn’t matter. The answer’s the same. Global warming. To true believers in the global warming religion, everything is a sign.” IBD
I replied:
What? You need to stop following your pseudoscience gods and listen to scientists. This is what we actually say: Polar amplification → weakened equator-to-pole temperature gradients → reduced thermal contrast that helps drive and stabilize large-scale atmospheric circulation → accelerated Greenland and Arctic ice melt → freshwater input into the North Atlantic and reduced salinity/density of surface waters → disruption and potential weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) → reorganization of North Atlantic pressure fields and storm tracks → greater jet-stream waviness, slower progression, and amplified Rossby-wave behavior → more persistent blocking patterns, omega blocks, and meridional flow → stalled atmospheric rivers, prolonged heat domes, drought-flood swings, and other forms of hydroclimatic whiplash → destabilization of agriculture, infrastructure, ecosystems, and public health systems → accelerated land-ice loss and groundwater redistribution that shift mass across the planet → climate-driven mass redistribution sufficient to measurably alter Earth’s moment of inertia and contribute to changes in rotational dynamics, including a slight slowing of Earth’s rotation and changes in the length of day.
Of course, feedback coupling is not this simple. There is no single starting point, no final destination, and no clearly defined end to the network.
MILLIONS → BILLIONS → TRILLIONS
POSSIBLE FEEDBACK INTERACTIONS
FEEDBACK COUPLING IS EMERGING
We cannot yet predict precisely how all these interactions will propagate, combine, and amplify as they unfold.
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
A small perturbation can propagate through a complex network, producing consequences far beyond its point of origin.
Climate denier replied:
your cut and paste of the typical claims is still with zero proof of human attribution.
All that has happened before. And all the grant money goes to AGW witnesses none for natural variability which is much more likely attribution. But keep worshipping at the church of global warming. That’s where the grant money goes. 🤣
I responded:
No. Wrong answer. I’ve spent several decades researching climate science, and I’m the author of the work you’re dismissing without apparently reading it.
Let’s have a pop quiz to test your scientific literacy—and whether your laughing emojis can substitute for scientific evidence.
1. Explain atmospheric ¹⁴C concentrations. What do they reveal about the sources of rising atmospheric CO₂?
2. Apply your answer using the CO₂ radiative forcing formula:
ΔF = 5.35 × ln(C/C₀) [W/m²]
Explain what this equation tells us about the radiative forcing caused by rising atmospheric CO₂ concentrations.
If natural variability is your preferred explanation, demonstrate it with evidence and quantitative analysis. Assertions, conspiracy theories about research funding, and laughing emojis are not scientific arguments.
*Show your work.* (If you are totally ignorant, reply with your foolish emojis.)
From the album “Feedback Coupling“
