We’ve been down this road before but the 97% “consensus” is that there is at least some degree of man made climate change. Within that 97% there are many different schools of thought, models, and projected outcomes. There is still a lot we are learning about weather patterns and long term cooling and warming cycles.
There’s a school of thought now that the much cooler climate we got used to in the 50s-early 80s (when we first really started getting into more modern weather data collection) was actually a result of pollution and when we really started cleaning up the particulate matter the temp started rising.
Most of my life I have been bombarded by alarmist climate rhetoric and doomsday predictions that never materialize. I think it’s ludicrous to think we don’t have any impact, but I’m also a little skeptical that while the warming trend of the past 13,000 years has been overwhelmingly positive for humanity that another degree or two is all of a sudden going to be cataclysmic.
The other thing to consider is that the climate will inevitably change even if we do absolutely nothing to impact it. It’s not like what we’ve had the last hundred years is what it’s always been or always will be. It’s just a snapshot in an every evolving cycle.
When we had the Little Ice Age a few hundred years ago it made life in the northern latitudes pretty damn difficult. But people adapted and survived. I suspect we’ll run out of oil or replace it well before Florida is underwater. In the meantime we’ve gotta survive the threat of WWIII, the terrible state of our domestic food system, and the horrors of DOGE.
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