Global warming is caused by climate skepticism

Another liberal meme.

The message here is that natural disasters wouldn't occur if we didn't have a government that doesn't "believe" in science. What I love about liberal memes is how much wrong they can cram into a little image macro. Let's count the ways.

1. Science is not a belief system. One might believe in Christianity, or true love, or leprechauns, but science is a process of sorting out objective truth from the soup of human subjectivity. We don't believe in science; we apply it to the problems at hand. We on the right tend to be skeptical of climate science because of its perversion by government funding and liberal orthodoxy in academia. No one on the right says they "don't believe in science." We are the science defenders, and studies confirm that conservatives are more science literate than liberals. We just happen to know that science, like all human endeavors, is subject to corruption and we seek to defend its purity. There is a word we use for viewing science as a belief system rather than an analytical tool: scientism. Those who create & share memes like this tip their hands.
2. What government doesn't "believe" in science? The obvious implication here is that this is Trump's fault because he is a climate non-believer for pulling us out of the Paris accord. Well, okay, he's been president for about half a year. Probably not enough time for his evil policies to destroy the Earth, right. But Obama was president for nearly a decade before. In fact, 16 of the last 24 years the government was run by so-called climate believers. So why did the world go to hell under their watch?
3. It assumes the government can do anything about climate change, even if it wanted to. The great paradox of big government is that whatever problem it tries to fix it makes worse. Not only that, but the science believers are completely incapable of stating how much we should attenuate our economy to stop global warming. For all we know (and we skeptics suspect), we could knock the entire global economy back to the stone age and the earth would continue to warm, as it has done for the ten thousand years or so since the last glacial era. Liberals don't actually believe the government can stop climate change because they don't promote solutions that might actually work; they only want to destroy a capitalist society where some people do better than others. Because if we were serious about cooling the earth, we could probably do it. Paint the deserts white, seed clouds, launch a massive solar shield; anything to reduce the amount of sunlight that is converted to heat. But, of course, they don't really care about the problem of warming, who is causing it, or how to solve it. This is political warfare in disguise.
4. The big one is that it assumes global warming is caused by climate change skepticism. The lefties have themselves in a comfortable safe space on this issue. If you pushed them, they would immediately retreat to the position of, "of course we know that climate change is caused by emissions, not climate denial, because blah blah blah..." Yet, they still act as if it was caused by mere skepticism itself. The reality is abstracted away so that skepticism is equated with worldly sin. If pushed on the issue they can pretend it's not a religion long enough to make the annoying sinner go away so they can go back to playing climate crusader. This makes sense if you understand how the left is organized. By and large, leftists don't set their own agenda; they are guided by propaganda. Liberal elites are the most hypocritical carbon abusers on the planet. They don't the issue to be too literal about emissions. That is, they don't want their attack dogs turning back on them. So they steer their underlings not to obsess over emissions as much as beliefs. Climate change is not a matter of scientific debate or even an ideological battle so much as religious warfare.

While you're praying for Houston and Florida and the other places, let's not forget the one group that needs it most. Pray for liberals. Perhaps only divine intervention can save them.