And yet the climate change deniers will find a way. I don’t see why this has to be made into such a political issue when we have hard numbers and objective facts to back up the claim that we are causing global warming, it’s clearly observable. The situation gets worse every passing year and we’re still trying to appease the “doubters”. Concrete and drastic measures need to be taken, it is high time.
There wasn't any doubt for decades. Normal thinking people understand cause and effect. Understand basic science of greenhouse effect. Understand if energy is not reflected to space it is stored and that you can't do that forever with impunity.
It's fun to be able to know if the cause is man made, or just bad luck (happening naturally), but what is more important either way is what can we do to reverse or mitigate the negative impact of the changes to the climate?<p>Now I don't think there's many left who deny that the climate is changing at all. But I think there are still some who aren't sure the changes to the climate will have a negative impact on humanity. I think this aspect I don't often hear discussed, after all, the climate changing could be good, or it could be bad, or it could be a mix of those in different places or different use cases.<p>And once we start to agree that some of the changes will be bad, it also becomes important to discuss what could be done to mitigate the negative effects?<p>The actual cause being man-made isn't that important, except possibly as a way to understand how to remediate the change. Like if we stopped all CO2 emissions would it really help?<p>Off course, this is where things will get political, because any policy to attempt to mitigate the negative effects (current or predicted) will inevitably affect someone's bottom line (their money). So expect a lot of push back from the people who'd lose money, and a lot of promotion from the people who would make money. That political dance will make it really hard to figure out which are the actually good solutions and which aren't.<p>Edit: It's true, beyond just financials, policies could also have an impact on people's lifestyles and life affordances and conveniences, that will also play a lot in the political dance.
Groups and people who oppose climate change apparently do so because their livelihood depends on fossil fuel being produced and sold without much restriction.<p>Then, there's too much money to be made from the effects of climate change. It's already a booming business. Supplying water and air purifying systems, sheltering, organizing future population movements, securing the affluent from the needy masses, etc.<p>While the naïve worry about saving the planet, most people just think about saving their own arses. And for the moment, they are winning.
One group of scientists, who can't imagine that their self invented model could be wrong, can't imagine any other reasons than man made changes for the results of their model simulation.<p>How you get from that to "removes almost all doubt" is beyond me. Such hyperbole does more damage than good.<p>I don't know anything about those scientists, I don't know anything about their model and their assumptions, so I am sorry, but for me it doesn't remove "almost all doubt".
I'm going to get down voted for not sensationalizing climate change like the doomers want... even though I do believe it is happening..<p>But what's interesting is that the average temperature right now is estimated to be among the coolest the Earth has ever been.<p><a href="https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hottest-earths-ever-been" rel="nofollow">https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hotte...</a><p>Just because something is happening doesn't automatically make it a scary big deal.