but living through 30 years of catastrophic predictions not happening has made me question the messenger instead.
Some examples(1):
1989: Rising seas to ‘obliterate’ nations by 2000
2008: Al Gore warns of ice-free Arctic by 2013
(1) https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-poca...
Don’t get me wrong. I still think it’s an area of concern. I’m actually a raging environmentalist but I just think we should spend our limited political capital on air pollution, heavy metals, microplastics, and expanding national park access.
Have you seen what's been happening the last couple of years? There are catastrophic predictions actually happening, sure some of them were wrong but the planet is in a pretty fucked up state right now.
I’ve seen a lot of things blamed on climate that are debatable. Wild fires, hurricanes, freak high tides, etc.
If it’s a true crisis we shouldn’t be grasping at normal climate events and trying to argue they’re slightly worse.