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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

I don't normally reply to the same post twice, but here goes:

I don't get how climate change got to be such a political issue. I don't know if we have done enough to actually cause the changes they say, and the science has to be very unpredictable, but so what? Almost all the changes are positive. We are better off with cleaner air and water, and we once thrived by driving innovation in the US (and we still do actually). Why not drive the new tech coming to address it?

All that said, I do believe the "we have 5 years to change or it'll be too late" stuff is ultimately harmful. First no one ever says what to change. But worse, there is a "oh well" aspect that comes from it. I mean the first time I heard it was 1990. Your boy Algore was saying it all through the 00's. Guess what? If they were right we are fucked.

And the thing is, no way the science can be that certain. The "test tube" is too big, too many variables.

IMO, climate change is political because a lot of lefties care about it and because conservatives (a) like to trigger the libs, and (b) keep business happy by promising to roll back government regulation, including environmental protections. No one is in favor of pollution.