I saw a museum exhibit somewhere that correlated the rise in temperatures with the emergence of the Industrial Revolution. It showed a remarkable increase in the rate of warming since the Ice Age in that 200-year span, particularly the last 50 or so. Yet "educated" naysayers reject the notion that that increase is human-caused. Somehow that notion doesn't square with their evangelical Christian beliefs that man has "dominion" over the earth.
A few versions of that chart are available, including what I put into this post. The correlation is too stark to be deniable. As for whether naysayers are educated, not everyone who gets a good education put in front of them actually absorbs it. "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink." (Things would be so very different if the primacy of exploiting everything for profit hadn't spread worldwide.)
I saw a museum exhibit somewhere that correlated the rise in temperatures with the emergence of the Industrial Revolution. It showed a remarkable increase in the rate of warming since the Ice Age in that 200-year span, particularly the last 50 or so. Yet "educated" naysayers reject the notion that that increase is human-caused. Somehow that notion doesn't square with their evangelical Christian beliefs that man has "dominion" over the earth.
A few versions of that chart are available, including what I put into this post. The correlation is too stark to be deniable. As for whether naysayers are educated, not everyone who gets a good education put in front of them actually absorbs it. "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink." (Things would be so very different if the primacy of exploiting everything for profit hadn't spread worldwide.)