I think folk tend to use what they choose?
If politics had not seen 'votes' in being 'green' then science would not be so enmeshed with it since the late 80's.
Folk surely know what politicians are like and the way they utilise that which brings them popularity (and shy away from that which may cost them support)
If science had it's way we would be poorer today by a long chalk but be working towards saving our Children /grandchildren future quality of life.
This 'cost' will not be sanctioned by any political party as ,5 years later, they'd be out of office.
Science is not bound by such and ,year on year, brings us further confirmations that their initial position on AGW is correct and ,if anything , undercooked (as we do not have a proper handle on the complexities of climate feedbacks?).
In time certain political 'flavours' will back away from the science as it will demand (the longer we leave it) more and more Govt. monies to help offset the worse consequences of AGW (check out the Republican party in the U.S.).
Humans deal with perceivable threats (and not long term problems) as we find on such threads. You will find folk who believe in the issues AGW will bring us have a horrible wish for a catastrophe, that can be shown to be AGW driven, to 'open the eyes' of deniers as to the horrors to come so we can move ,as one, towards mitigating such. I believe this is driven by the understanding that a slow 'drip ,drip' threat will not spark our survival instincts as we cannot perceive any threat in our day to day living (I mean look at the clamour a little snow [perceived threat] brings when it arrives compared to a 6 month , below average rainfall, that brings water shortages?)
Sadly , my understanding of climate and it's workings tends towards the 'Lovelokian view' of climate shift. By the time the 'catastrophe' occurs it'll be global and for good.
If we cannot see the Arctic as our 'Canary in the coal mine' or the droughts/wildfires in Russia or Pakistan's floods as anything other than 'natural variability' at play (or our run of floods over the last 10 yrs, or last years/this years grain price hikes due to adverse climate over swathes of the planet and the inflation it drives)
Anyhoo's I'm becoming content in my position of 'nobody will do a thing until too late' and enjoy the horrid things the septic's currently engage in knowing that their most vocal proponents will be the first against the wall come the climate snap (as folk realise what these folk have cost humanity). A certain Bavarian deliberately cost the planet 6 million lives and will be remembered through history as the worst that humanity can spawn......what of those costing us Billions of avoidable deaths?
Koyaanisqatsi
ko.yaa.nis.katsi (from the Hopi language), n. 1. crazy life. 2. life in turmoil. 3. life disintegrating. 4. life out of balance. 5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.
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