Quote Originally Posted by crazyfists View Post
It said this in a news report today I read about the drought:

Scientists say the likelihood of droughts occurring is becoming higher due to climate change, driven by greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels and other human activities.

Now I just think it's interesting that people normally listen to the experts but not when they don't agree with it. So most business leaders (experts on business) in the UK said Brexit was economic suicide to which people who wanted leave said was scaremongering. Now we can see it wasn't, the rest of the deals we can sign up with the world won't cover what we've lost and our growth forecast is second worst only to Russia. When you get really ill through accident or disease then you go to the experts in that field, the hospital, consultants and GPS. When you have an insect infestation you go to the experts rentokill. Same for a complex plumbing issue or electrical fault. Why are some people so quick to discredit the experts on the climate, doesn't make sense.

Yeah, much good food for thought there!

Alas, m'sen I have given up all hope of us (collectively) ever stopping serious climate change.

I think the big problem is that the contest is so unfair:
In the green corner - scientists, some reasonable folk, a few well-meaning liberals/radicals
In the black corner - the automobile industrial mega-armies, the oil super-mega powers, all-powerful religious fundamentalists & ultra conservatives, etc

I think the climate change issue is much like two other huge controversies of the last century:

(1) Does smoking cause cancer and other serious diseases?
Science: yes.
The mighty tobacco industry & allies: no, there's no evidence.

(2) Have we arrived at the current "life on earth" species via the process of Darwinian Evolution?
Science: yes.
Religious fundamentalists: no, there's no evidence. Everything was created out of thin air.