I’ve been writing and reading about climate change for close to a decade now. I look at climate blogs every day. I comment on blogs (where I’m allowed to–the Klimate Kultists tend to ban folks like me, sometimes even before I ever say a thing. Yes, that’s you, ATTP.)
It’s not just me, of course. Thousands of interested citizens, politicians, other journalists, lobbyists, NGOs and corporate types follow the climate debate almost obsessively. We know the lingo, the nuance. We know our Dunning Kruger from our Overton Window. We have our touchstones–when someone insults one of them, whether it’s Michael Mann or Steve McIntyre, we are quick on the draw with a quiver full of comebacks.
So it’s nice to remember once in a while that while there may be thousands of us participating in the debate, we are the fringe. No matter which side we take, we are weird by definition just for being so over-involved.
A website called Fusion just put it all into perspective, showing Google search results for both climate change and… the NFL. Here’s what they found:
Interest over time
| Date | climate change | nfl |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, September 24, 2015 | 1 | 25 |
| Friday, September 25, 2015 | 1 | 27 |
| Saturday, September 26, 2015 | 0 | 18 |
| Sunday, September 27, 2015 | 0 | 100 |
| Monday, September 28, 2015 | 0 | 46 |
| Tuesday, September 29, 2015 | 0 | 33 |
| Wednesday, September 30, 2015 | 0 | 19 |
| Thursday, October 1, 2015 | 0 | 24 |
| Friday, October 2, 2015 | 0 | 28 |
| Saturday, October 3, 2015 | 0 | 18 |
| Sunday, October 4, 2015 | 0 | 97 |
| Monday, October 5, 2015 | 0 | 49 |
| Tuesday, October 6, 2015 | 0 | 32 |
| Wednesday, October 7, 2015 | 0 | 19 |
| Thursday, October 8, 2015 | 0 | 23 |
| Friday, October 9, 2015 | 0 | 24 |
| Saturday, October 10, 2015 | 0 | 17 |
| Sunday, October 11, 2015 | 0 | 89 |
| Monday, October 12, 2015 | 0 | 45 |
| Tuesday, October 13, 2015 | 0 | 31 |
| Wednesday, October 14, 2015 | 1 | 17 |
| Thursday, October 15, 2015 | 1 | 22 |
| Friday, October 16, 2015 | 0 | 24 |
| Saturday, October 17, 2015 | 0 | 16 |
| Sunday, October 18, 2015 | 0 | 83 |
| Monday, October 19, 2015 | 0 | 44 |
| Tuesday, October 20, 2015 | ||
| Wednesday, October 21, 2015 | ||
| Thursday, October 22, 2015 | ||
| Friday, October 23, 2015 |
The Lukewarmer's Way 
I think the words “climate change” aren’t searched for because the general public is educated, they know the world is warming a lot and we are all going to die soon as giant hurricanes and floods sweep us to live in drought stricken areas where starving polar bears and Syrian refugees roam. So why bother to look up such a depressing subject?
Trust me, NFL has no interest outside the USA. The rest of the world plays football with a spherical ball.
When did rugby change so dramatically?
.Americans are not interested in climate change…You can argue that they should be (and I’ll agree)….
Er… Climate Change (nee Global Warming) made a number of predictions that the world would start becoming dangerously hot, and that the weather would go ‘weird’. None of these things have happened. So why should anyone – Americans or anyone else, be interested in a failed theory any more?
> ban folks like me, sometimes even before I ever say a thing. Yes, that’s you, ATTP
It seems odd to me that you’ve allowed this to stand, uncorrected, in your post, even though ATTP has provided links proving its falseness, and you’ve accepted its falsity.
To take an obviously entirely hypothetical example – were anyone to wonder if what you say can be relied upon, they might look upon this as a counter example.
I adjusted the comment in the comments where the conversation took place. Given that he continues to post a link to a comment that I told him I didn’t make months ago, I’m not inclined to do much else.
What I see on that thread Ken Rice is the usual word games you like to play. You told Tom to go away and he agreed to do so. What he said seemed to be making sense. You just didn’t like the IPCC conclusions Tom was discussing.
However, you can be far nastier than that. Far more pernicious is your practice of deleting relevant comments to skew the record to an outcome you like.
> I still think you manufactured that comment.
But you defended yourself to me via email on the grounds that the IP address of that comment geolocates to not-your-location. However, it even more strongly geolocates to not-ATTPs-location. So you are now obliged to accept that ATTP didn’t write it, if you follow your own logic.
I’m struggling to understand why I should be accepting dicta when neither you nor ATTP have shown any sign of doing so.
You’ve got a comment on your website with my name attached to it that I didn’t write and you say I need to accept that ATTP didn’t write it.
ATTP has been throwing a link to that comment in my face and God knows where else.
And I have to accept something? Tell you what–you deep six the comment and ATTP accepts I didn’t write it. Then I’ll accept that ATTP didn’t.
PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE TROLL!
William Connolley instructing anyone on anything to do with manners or veracity is incredibly funny.