Bill McKibben compares the attack on climate science to OJ Simpson trial

A familiar face in the climate movement – and a major partner behind the TckTckTck campaign – Bill McKibben last week wrote a great in-depth article comparing the OJ Simpson trials in the 90′s to the current relentless attacks on climate science by entrenched fossil fuel and flat earth types. The analogy is drawn due to the way OJ’s trial lawyers – some of the best in the world – distracted attention from the obvious facts showing guilt, to the way those facts were gathered by law enforcement agencies.

“The Dream Team of lawyers assembled for Simpson’s defense had a problem: it was pretty clear their guy was guilty. Nicole Brown’s blood was all over his socks, and that was just the beginning. So Johnnie Cochran, Robert Shapiro, Alan Dershowitz, F. Lee Bailey, Robert Kardashian et al. decided to attack the process, arguing that it put Simpson’s guilt in doubt, and doubt, of course, was all they needed..”

“Similarly, the immense pile of evidence now proving the science of global warming beyond any reasonable doubt is in some ways a great boon for those who would like, for a variety of reasons, to deny that the biggest problem we’ve ever faced is actually a problem at all. If you have a three-page report, it won’t be overwhelming and it’s unlikely to have many mistakes. Three thousand pages (the length of the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)? That pretty much guarantees you’ll get something wrong.”

via: Huffington Post

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