Bill McKibben, OJ Simpson, and Climate Change
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Source: activerain.com
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Faced with massive evidence against their client, OJ's lawyers teased out the doubt they needed by attacking law enforcement's process and the individual players involved in the investigation. And, for a seemingly counter-intuitive reason, it worked:
"If anything, they were actually helped by the mountain of evidence. If a haystack gets big enough, the odds only increase that there will be a few needles hidden inside."
And, of course, the climate science haystack has its needles. Which is why, according to Bill McKibben, climate-concerned citizens need to help climate-concerned scientists with social and political activism.
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