@Cyclone_Baroness:
I will never understand people who are Climate change is a hoax. You aren't a scientist! You gotta trust at least someone with some actual expertise.
The people claiming it's a huge hoax really aren't the problem. The problem is best summed up by Rand Paul, who was on CNN earlier talking about how he supported Trump's decision.
People like him have come around to accepting that human action has effected the enviorment to varrying degrees. The issue that they claim, though, is that the Earth has gone through drastic climate changes and cycles, and that this is just one of them.
It's completely ignoring the actual numbers. I believe it was Jake Tapper speaking to Paul(I was just listening to it in the background), and Jake asked him point blank, does he think the scientist are wrong. Rand responded with saying that because models on how the temperatures have risen have changed or weren't entirely accurate, that they can't be relied on at all. Jake tried to point out the issues with this, but he didn't tackle that one there. The conservative argument comes back to "They weren't 100% correct, therefore it can't be trusted".
It would be like checking your tire pressure, only to discover that your small, gas station bought pressure gauge is a few PSI off. And then deciding to just not fill your tire with air and see what happens.
Rand talked about how everyone is overexagerating, making it seem like armegedon is coming in 10,000 years and everyone shouldn't panic now. As Tapper then pointed out, it's not a far fetched thing. Raising the sea level will be catastrophic for millions of habitats and ecosystems. Not to mention the effect that has on coastal towns. Hell, the town I live in on Long Island has a dock for the ferry and floods nearly every year during hurricane season. And almost every time it happens, someones business gets flooded on mainstreet and it's months of problems for them between fixing everything, dealing with insurance, and then operating their business right afterward. That will happen to thousands more and only grow as the sea level does.
Rand mentioned that the issue is, as he said, "We don't know though in a year if it's gonna raise 5 feet or 5 inches. I need to see some proof" to which Tapper replied, "So do we just wait and find out?"
Other than debating the truthfulness of the models and science, they spoke of the cost factor, with Rand Paul stating that it made sense to not put money into this and instead save the "6 million jobs lost by overregulation". Ignoring the fact that green energy is a much more financially rewarding market, he tried to tie it back to restoring jobs to coal miners. Rand's answer to that, to finish the interview, was to ignore it and instead criticize the "scientist who don't even know what it's called anymore. Global warming, climate change, is it getting colder. They don't know". They went to commercial soon after, but it bugs me that Tapper didn't attack him on that. Because that is what I believe to be the greatest summary of the conservative argument against regulating these businesses. Because it still snows, global warming isn't real. Because they didn't see the beach become more engulfed by the water with each passing day, it's not happening. Because the phrase "Global Warming" became popularized, if it's called by another name by somebody else, all the science is wrong.
The fact is that while there will always be a segment of the population that can't stop and say "I don't understand the science behind this, let me learn how this works", there's a much bigger population that voted for Trump which believes that because they're not firsthand experiencing the effects of climate change, it's not happening.
No different than someone who gained coverage under the ACA complaining about Obamacare as a whole and saying to scrap it all because they don't think their boss should cover Debbie from accounting's birth control pills. Rather than discussion and negotiation, they say fuck it and scrap it all to prove a political point, even if it hurts everyone.