cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20782694
I posted on Facebook about hurricane Helene hitting Asheville North Carolina and how climate change resulted in one of the most severe storms and disasters we have ever seen in American history. This public school teacher in Florida proceeded to message me privately to tell me that climate change is fake, and how I need to get real because climate change supposedly had nothing to do with Western North Carolina looking like the setting for the next season of Fallout TV series. There's no other way to put it, honestly. I have seen so many pictures and videos of the damage, it is simply astonishing. I have never seen something so gruesome and horrific in my whole life...
It's honestly crazy that there are teachers, who are responsible for educating other people, and this is the kind of stuff that they are telling people.
I had a chemistry professor who used our class time to teach us about how the greenhouse effect is a lie made up by Al Gore to sell more Carbon Credits. And he, a god-fearing, former Exxon-Mobil career petroleum chemist, who was Chair of the university Chemistry Department, decided to avail we Gen Chem students of this terrible liberal misinformation. I lost a lot of respect that day. I hate you, "professor" Earl F. Pearson. Line your pockets in hell.