Funny Moments

Blame the farting mammals
Eco-Business gets its fair share of loony comments from climate change denialists on our stories. Here are a few that got us a bit hot under the collar this year.

In response to our article that predicted that the 2-degrees Celsius global warming horizon would be overshot, Dale Allen wrote:

"Cannot wait for the increase, I live in Canada and a 2-degree C increase would be welcome. It’s not like it has not been above that in the past, several thousand years ago before mankind thought they knew it all we had tropical rainforests in northern Canada. Guess we can blame that on the farting of large mammals."

For our roundup of the top 5 carbon and climate stories of 2016, Duane A. Fisher suggested that only the weak-minded fall for the climate change "hoax." Their comments are made all the more believable by their generous — but totally random — use of capital letters.

"Man Made Climate Changers continue the Hoax, Propaganda to Enslave the world under a Carbon Tax Scheme Ripp off! Only the weak minded are falling for this. Unfortunately a lot of the Brain-washed Morons are in leadership positions. The educated know that the Sun is the Culprit and not carbon."

In the comment thread of the same story, this gem from another American, Frank H., is the classic rallying cry of the denialist:

"Climate change is bullshit."