Climate Change Has Doubled The Frequency Of Ocean Heatwaves

[LibertyBell]

28 minutes ago, donsutherland1 said:

There are several suboptimal reactions that have occurred (based largely on policy changes, Social Media activity of those within or aligned with the current Administration):

1. A small number increasingly accept the evidence for climate change, but they have little clout.

2. Some choose to impose the artificial constraint of "helplessness." From there standpoint, there's nothing that can be done. Thus, they find comfort in maintaining a business as usual course.

3. Others continue to reject scientific understanding of climate change. Part of this group rejects the scientific basis outright. Others take a more sophisticated approach in their denialism by consistently downplaying its impacts, amplifying uncertainties far beyond the narrow areas in which they exist, and pointing to forcings to be discovered/determined later that are natural. Some disguise their denialism with caveats, essentially stating/writing: "Anthropogenic climate change is real but..." What follows the conjunction is a defense of the status quo, doing nothing, discrediting climate scientists, etc. 

I see a lot of this.  Based on leaked info, people in the current administration acknowledge climate change but think it's too late to do anything substantive about it.  They come from the fossil fuel industry, so as long as they profit in the short term, they dont care about the long term damage being caused.

And I see the argument about climate change being natural and not being caused by humans all the time.  What they dont understand is that the timescales involved in whats happening now are much much quicker.  Also, just because something that happened previously and was "natural" doesn't mean that was a good thing- mass extinctions are "natural" too (and the current one is human-caused.)