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I used to worry

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.

>>bilsbi+(OP)
>but living through 30 years of catastrophic predictions not happening has made me question the messenger instead.

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.

>>peterp+y
Do you have an example or two that’s not open to interpretation?

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.

>>peterp+y
> There are catastrophic predictions actually happening, sure some of them were wrong but the planet is in a pretty fucked up state right now.

Can you be more specific?

>>peterp+y
Press X to Doubt

It couldn't be an attempt to make white people accept poverty by the big corps who sponsor politicians and control research grant monies ?

>>bilsbi+(OP)
You mean 30 years of listening to non-experts instead of experts. 30 years of listening to scientifically illiterate journalists who exaggerate and make stuff up to sell more papers or get more clicks, while refusing to listen to what scientists actually say.

Pretty much everything in that link is just random headlines, with zero connection to what the scientific consensus was in the listed years.