Sometimes, the best and the brightest and most well-intentioned of us are fuckin’ idiots.

For today, here’s looking at you, Jimmy Dore, and Joe Rogan too.

In this video, JD is promoting a story that claims to reveal new evidence that climate change generally, and warming in particular, is no big deal and fake news.

A story, by the way, which was published in the Bezos-owned Washington Post–I wonder what he might have to gain, hmm?, from pushing this narrative.

Here’s what got left out.

As you can see in their chart, it used to be a whole lot hotter. In dinosaur times.

But that’s more or less irrelevant to the human condition, because …

… the entire genus Homo is less than 3 million years old.

So for the entire history of humanity, things have, on average, been cooling dramatically.

Until this civilization fiasco reared its ugly head, and the red line begins to spike upwards again with equal drama.

For our purposes as humans who would like a habitable planet for our kind, this is not the good news you paint it as.

We as proudly civilized sapients are, still, a disaster for ourselves and all the rest of the mammals.

Not just because things really are getting hotter from our emissions, but for a couple thousand other reasons besides, including the plastic that lives in your brain, and mine, and in the brains of our beloved puppies and kitties and polar bears.

Society beyond the tribal level sucks and is continuing to suck ever harder.

One way or another, I remain perfectly convinced that the most likely thing is that it will suck itself to death.

Maybe the nukes will start falling. Maybe the machines we built will take over. Maybe we cook ourselves to death. I don’t know and no one knows.

But this “new evidence” is no cause for optimism about any of those scenarios.

I don’t think your grandchildren will be flying around in space like they promised on the Star Treks, and it’s even less likely that the egalitarian moneyless meritocracy shows like this promise will ever be a thing.

Bladerunner.

Neuromancer.

Maybe at best, the world of Fallout.

Each of these is far more likely an outcome than the ever-advancing march of progress and blue Joy.