Dear John Oliver: Did you really just hold a climate change debate with the number of scientists vs. deniers in accurate proportions? I think I love you, and your new show.
Since cool, rational discussion has utterly failed to produce meaningful policy action on addressing climate change, I am all for blatantly mocking the absurdity of framing climate change as a debatable topic. But, to be truly fair, I wish each side had been given proportional time within the debate structure. After the introduction, they get about a minute for the debate, so that’s just under 2 seconds for the deniers to make their point, and 58 seconds for the scientists.
Here’s my take on the recent IPCC climate change report and the US National Assessment. For a more lighthearted approach, did you know that Stargate: Atlantis used real atmospheric science in their climate change episode?
https://gizmodo.com/the-west-gets-drier-while-the-east-gets-wetter-1572514805
