Analogy: Climate change vs. impaired driving

[traininthedistance]

The idea is less crazy than it seems.  The common thread, of course, being that global climate systems and the human body have a certain amount of resilience/"buffer" that can absorb small to moderate amounts of shock in terms of GHG or booze or whatever without ill effects, but at a certain point you hit an inflection where the natural feedback systems get overwhelmed and any further stress will lead to genuine impairment.

This isn't necessarily meant as a defense of that Wiki-sourced drunk driving chart, of course (which I can't vouch for); just an explanation/defense of the underlying idea.

[traininthedistance]

But clouding things up with ideology and pseudo dogmatic tactics of name calling (deniers!) gets nothing done and only feeds alienation or smugness.

Like adopting the misleading Luntzian moniker "skeptics" is any better.