Is Climate Change Real?

Is it true that climate change is created by human activity? 

Yes, there is a small minority of scientists that disagree, but the consensus is overwhelming -and we are not talking about scientists with a corporate (or other) agenda. We are talking about deduction worshipping academics. So, if someone among us is motivated to argue against them (and they do not have the requisite scientific pedigree themselves) then we have to question their underlying motivation -because it is clearly outside the rigorous fact crunching endeavors of academic science. 

What might these motivations be?

1) Distrust of the media that reports science. Journalists have their own commitment to truth, and though many are deeply compromised by the corporate "agenda" that supports much mainstream media, many are not -and they are reporting that human activity is affecting climate change. Fact is that they are all (mainstream and non-mainstream journalists) are pretty much reporting the same thing. As with all human endeavors, there are exceptions, but we have got to embrace the big picture otherwise we are picking and choosing what we want to believe based on our own values, which may include...

2) A love of our modern way of life. Some deniers say, "If there is no proof, then why compromise all the advances, conveniences and prosperity we enjoy by hampering the economic (that is, largely corporate) engine that supports them?  Because addressing climate change will certainly compromise the trajectory and goals of our economic leaders. Also, please do not ask me to stop eating meat, to drive less, fly less or use less plastic. I have earned these pleasures!". The question of proof, of course, is covered above. 

3) I am scared to death of the looming catastrophe and would rather look at the bright side! Fair enough, it's scary, but no reason to coddle delusions. There's plenty of reason for hope and we don't have to be afraid of change (in our energy and eating habits). We will all feel better as a result, in my opinion.

4) The 'establishment' is scaring everyone because when people are afraid they are easier to control. This motivation invites us to review point #1, above. But what does the corporate establishment really have to gain from action on climate change? Not much, frankly. They will be curtailed, which in my opinion is a welcome response to their run-away gluttony. And do they really need an insidious, global hoax with thousands and thousands of co-conspirators to gain control of the populace when they are already lulled into complacency with banal media, suger and drug addiction, greed and a basic distrust of intellectualism and the political system? Nope. Not necessary. What populist revolution are they needing to quell? 

I humbly invite my well-meaning "climate-denying" friends to ask which of the above motivations might be coloring their perception. I have. And I going with the scientists on this one. And I'm standing with Greta, Arlo and Henry in the hopes that their future is not blanketed with disaster.