Please explain how climate change is making humanity's average intelligence drop.
Many people are being convinced that the natural variations in the Earth's climate are actually being caused by minor greenhouse gases like CO2 (ignoring the much larger contributors like water vapor, because the best climate models can't model H2O for shit) and persuaded to reduce their standards of living greatly (unlike their rich overlords) along with ceding control.of their lives to politicians and billionaires. Thereby making the population stupider...
One of the real underlying problems is that kids are not taught in schools how computer models work. They think that computer models are a form of proof. They are not. They are a way of applying well-proven principles to a typical problem quickly. As a proof, they are at best a circular argument: this model, which is programmed to calculate x as a function of y, "clearly demonstrates" that x is a function of y.
In a system that is not well-understood, they generate nonsense.
Also, the computer models that work typically only generate accurate results within a specific range of conditions. In the 80's, doing aerodynamic modeling, you had to use different computer models at subsonic versus supersonic speeds, and they typically stopped working accurately above certain angles of attack. I know they now have models that will go from subsonic to supersonic speeds, fairly accurately, and that was the work of an entire generation of engineers.