# Scott Adams, full blown climate denier.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-full-blown-climate-denier/786554
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 13, 2017, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-full-blown-climate-denier/786554 "2017-05-13T21:23:12Z")
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### Author:  [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2017, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-full-blown-climate-denier/786554/1 "2017-05-13T21:23:12Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2017, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-full-blown-climate-denier/786554/2 "2017-05-13T21:40:59Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-full-blown-climate-denier/786554/3 "2017-05-13T21:55:05Z")
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](https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-94-the-brian-johnstown-massacre-32617).
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### Author:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2017, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-full-blown-climate-denier/786554/4 "2017-05-13T22:09:32Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2017, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-full-blown-climate-denier/786554/5 "2017-05-14T01:22:40Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2017, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-full-blown-climate-denier/786554/6 "2017-05-14T01:53:33Z")
( **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.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-full-blown-climate-denier/786554/7 "2017-05-14T02:38:36Z")
> [@Mangosteen](#):
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> 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.
We, it’s certainly a good thing that our _current_ president believes in the value of simple living.
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### Author:  [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2017, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-full-blown-climate-denier/786554/8 "2017-05-14T04:34:38Z")
> [@Mangosteen](#):
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> The worst of the climate “deniers” are people like Al Gore, Michael Moore and Leonardo Dicaprio.
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> 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.
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> Micheal Moore owns NINE homes according to his divorce papers. Way to protect the environment, Micheal!
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Haven’t these people heard of video conferencing?
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> These people are the real climate deniers.
Wrong thread?
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### Author:  [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2017, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-full-blown-climate-denier/786554/9 "2017-05-14T04:59:28Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2017, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-full-blown-climate-denier/786554/10 "2017-05-14T10:26:12Z")
What happened to Dilbert’s white shirt and upturned necktie? He looks like a hipster.
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### Author:  [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2017, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-full-blown-climate-denier/786554/11 "2017-05-14T12:44:28Z")
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 ☹
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### Author:  [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2017, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-full-blown-climate-denier/786554/12 "2017-05-14T13:05:34Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2017, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-full-blown-climate-denier/786554/13 "2017-05-14T13:36:33Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#):
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> 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.
This was my thought as well.
Today’s Dilbert was embarrassingly dumb.
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### Author:  [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-full-blown-climate-denier/786554/14 "2017-05-14T14:14:09Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#):
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> ( **Mangosteen** , you do know that “denier” is not a synonym for “hypocrite,” right?)
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.
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### Author:  [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2017, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-full-blown-climate-denier/786554/15 "2017-05-14T14:32:28Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#):
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> Since his strip has grown increasingly repetitive, I shall henceforth stop reading it.
I’m sure Mr. Adams will be devastated.
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### Author:  [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2017, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-full-blown-climate-denier/786554/16 "2017-05-14T14:33:01Z")
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 models](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ6Z04VJDco)and models are constantly checked with reality.
> **[Why trust climate models? It’s a matter of simple science](https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/09/why-trust-climate-models-its-a-matter-of-simple-science/)**
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> How climate scientists test, test again, and use their simulation tools.
> [@](#):
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> One surprisingly common misconception about climate models is that they’re just exercises in curve-fitting. The global average temperature record is fed into the model, which matches that trend and spits out a simulation just like it. In this (mistaken) view, having a model that compares well with reality is a necessary outcome of the process. This doesn’t demonstrate that climate models can be trusted to usefully project future trends, but this line of thinking is mistaken for several reasons.
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> There’s obviously more to a climate model than a graph of global average temperature. Some parameterizations—those stand-ins for processes that occur at scales finer than a grid cell—are tuned to match observations. After all, they are attempts to describe a process in terms of its large-scale results. But successful parameterizations aren’t used as a gauge of how well the model is reproducing reality. “Obviously, since these factors are tuned for, they don’t count as a model success. However, the model evaluations span a much wider and deeper set of observations, and when you do historical or paleoclimate simulations, none of the data you are interested in has been tuned for,” Schmidt told Ars.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-full-blown-climate-denier/786554/17 "2017-05-14T14:43:59Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> What happened to Dilbert’s white shirt and upturned necktie? He looks like a hipster.
[Business Dorky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_(character)#Physical_appearance)
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> In the strip published October 13, 2014,[9] \*\*Dilbert announced to Dogbert that his company had a new dress code, [“Business Dorky”](http://dilbert.com/strip/2014-10-13). \*\*Dilbert’s white shirt and striped tie were replaced with a red polo shirt and a badge on a lanyard. Subsequent strips published Monday through Saturday show all of the company employees wearing this same outfit, with the polo shirts varying in color between blue, green, yellow, red, orange, and purple. The Sunday strips continued to show the characters in their original outfits, until November 9, 2014.
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### Author:  [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2017, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-full-blown-climate-denier/786554/18 "2017-05-14T16:10:07Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#):
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> 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.
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.
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### Author:  [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2017, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-full-blown-climate-denier/786554/19 "2017-05-14T16:16:54Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#):
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> 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.
Author Existence Failure happened.
> **[B.C. - TV Tropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicStrip/BC)**
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> B.C. is an American newspaper comic strip created in 1958 by Johnny Hart. It focuses on a small band of cavemen, led by one named B.C. Others in the strip include Peter, Clumsy Carp, Curls, Thor, Wiley, Grog, the Fat Broad and the Cute Chick ( …
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> Initially, B.C. was a gag-a-day strip. After Hart became a born-again Christian in 1977, the strip gradually began adding more and more of Hart’s religious and political beliefs until most strips were Christian-themed. Some newspapers refused to print certain strips that were deemed overly proselytizing. After Hart’s death in 2007, it reverted to a mostly gag-a-day strip maintained by daughter Perri Hart and grandson Mason Mastroianni.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2017, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-full-blown-climate-denier/786554/20 "2017-05-14T16:17:46Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#):
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> 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.
Johnny Hart died.
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