Not having a Sunday paper, we get the Sunday comics on Saturday. I had sort of known that Scott Adams had joined the dark side, but didn’t realize until I saw today’s Sunday Dilbert strip to what extent he had. It not only denies climate change, it ridicules the people who study it. Since his strip has grown increasingly repetitive, I shall henceforth stop reading it.
I hadn’t read it with any regularity in years, but I would still check it occasionally. Up until a year or so ago when it came out what a nutcase he is.
I guess 30-ish years of minor fame and a little bit of pussy took his brain for a ride.
I’ve never read Dilbert and have no interest in Adams, but the Chapo Trap House Podcast had a segment on him a few weeks ago where they deconstructed an article about Adams and it was hilarious.
It’s long been my observation that while Scott Adams’ cartoons are funny and often perceptive – though to be fair he gets most of his ideas from reader contributions – his books where he attempts to be semi-serious are pretty much complete crap, except for the cartoon archives that he illustrates them with. It was only much more recently that I started becoming aware of what a nutbar he really is. Some of his latest pontifications and his obsession with hypnotism suggest either extreme eccentricity or early-onset dementia.
On climate change, he’s convinced himself that most scientists support AGW because there’s a great social and professional cost in doing otherwise. That’s right, Scott, there’s always a significant social and professional cost to being a moron who advocates crazy ideas completely unsupported by evidence, like, for example, you. And that’s nothing new, and rightly so. He also believes that both sides of the “debate” are equally credible, thus demonstrating that he not only isn’t a scientist as he readily admits, but that he doesn’t have the intellectual capacity to think like one. And he also claims that “slow-moving disasters” like climate change are things that we can easily fix (like by “scrubbing the atmosphere”) which is totally false, naive, utter claptrap, and ignores among other things tipping points and permanent global circulation changes and associated major regional climate changes, permanent impacts on the ecosystem, long-term feedbacks, permanent loss of polar ice, and sea level rise. The man has become a dangerous idiot.
The worst of the climate “deniers” are people like Al Gore, Michael Moore and Leonardo Dicaprio.
Al Gore owns several homes and his mansion in Tennessee uses as much fossil fuel (natural gas) in one month than most homes in the area use in a year. And don’t buy his “credit offsets” excuse. Burning lots of fossil fuel means burning fossil fuel, period.
Micheal Moore owns NINE homes according to his divorce papers. Way to protect the environment, Micheal!
Dicaprio flies in private jets all over the world and tells the rest of us to reduce our carbon foot print. Do as I say, not as I do.
And then there is President Barack “I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money” Obama pocketing millions in “speaking fees” and flying by private jet with a 14 vehicle escort to a Climate conference.
Haven’t these people heard of video conferencing?
These people are the real climate deniers.
(Mangosteen, you do know that “denier” is not a synonym for “hypocrite,” right?)
On Scott Adams, his comic strip and thought processes have pretty clearly jumped the shark. But I feel bad about that, because I have a personal, pre-internet memory of him being a nice guy. Back before the internet, in 1994, I started publishing a monthly newsletter for the business organization I was running. I was looking for ways to make it something that people would want to pick up, and I thought that if we could run Dilbert comic strips, that would appeal to people. But we had no budget for purchasing rights to republish.
So I wrote to Scott Adams (snail mail!) and explained our situation, asking if it would be okay if we ran one of his comic strips every month, even though we couldn’t pay for the privilege.
I quickly got a very nice personal response, granting permission. So 20+ years ago, Scott Adams was, at least in this instance, a nice guy.
We, it’s certainly a good thing that our current president believes in the value of simple living.
Wrong thread?
Scott Adams was a programmer for PTT - Pac Bell.
That shop was the inspiration for Dilbert - right down to the conflicting roles of what they called 'managers"
i did a stint there one summer - first thing out of anybody’s mouth: Scott Adams works HERE! We ARE Dilbert.
As i said: complete zoo.
The strip went downhill fast after Adams decided he could live off Dilbert proceeds - he fired his muse.
Only rarely a good idea
No, I never got around to look at the clever monkey in cubicle 1E68. odd thing.
What happened to Dilbert’s white shirt and upturned necktie? He looks like a hipster.
it’s a shame to see this as I used to think he was very funny. The Way of the Weasel was an awesome book.
it could be dementia - that is a thing that happens to people 
I’m reminded of when Johnny Hart started taking B.C. off the rails, and the strip had to be moved to the religion section of the newspaper. I hope a similar sea change doesn’t happen with Dilbert. I’ve been reading and relating to it for half of my working life.
This was my thought as well.
Today’s Dilbert was embarrassingly dumb.
And not even that, In the case of Al Gore his main point is that the well to do should at least be carbon neutral, that is like when rich people owning a big state with more people in it pay more for utilities or should be paying more to use green energy and when the change finally takes place, to pay more for the big proyects to sequester CO2 and other greenhouse gases. Likewise with many proponents of change that are not scientists, currently they pay more to reduce their carbon footprint. Their point is that we do not need to go back to the stone age as contrarians think proponents of change are about.
IMHO deniers out there do realize then that their idea of proponents of change as enemies of jobs, progress or modern civilization is poppycock, so they rely on red herrings like the one Mangosteen posted.
I’m sure Mr. Adams will be devastated.
As for the comic, Scott Adams just certified himself as a champion of ignorance. Scientists do not ignore models that contradict their views, their views were changed by more than just modelsand models are constantly checked with reality.
BC and Wizard of Id are actually back from the abyss, and while not up for any awards soon, are both readable and often funny. I am not sure what happened, but I clearly remember the painful religious era.
Scott Adams seems to have been driven mad by one of Catbert’s evil schemes.
Author Existence Failure happened.
Johnny Hart died.