Personally I would find this politicized narrative surrounding climate change far more alarming if early predictions from global warming advocates, such as Dr. James Hansen and United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, had in any way been accurate. Fortunately, despite masquerading behind a pretense of 'concrete scientific backing', virtually all early predictions have proven to be wholly inaccurate. For an example, in his 1988 testimony to the US senate Hansen made one very bold prediction: if public policy in regards to carbon dioxide emissions 'continued as usual', with the same rate of annual increases as the late 80s, he predicted a "one celsuis degree increase in world's temperature within 30 years." Here we are now more than 30 years later, and although world carbon emissions have increased moderately, 'world temperatures have remained unchanged since 2000, apart from 2015-2016, when then the temperature rose slightly after a heavy El Nino, and then receded again.'
Similar predictions were forecast by the United Nations intergovernmental panel on Climate Change, which claimed temperatures increases twice as great as what actually occurred in the period up to 2000, with accelerating increases in the years since, when the temperatures remained fairly constant. Hansen also predicted exceptional warming in the Southeast and Midwest of the US (wrong), along with an assertion that hurricanes and tornadoes would somehow 'become stronger', a theory repeated by none other than American left's favorite weatherman, Senator Bernie Sanders. Of course none of this has come to fruition, at least according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
So here we are today: Hansen's predictions have all bombed and he has not recanted. His polyglot and multi-motivated echo chamber, including Dr. Michael Mann and his infamous "hockey stick" of sharply rising temperatures, have had their noses rubbed in the fiction of increasing world temperatures throughout this new millennium. The lessons of all this are clear, but most of our political and academic leaders are so far over-invested in defending against something that is not happening, they continue to call for the sacrifice of others, the deindustrialization of the West, the self-imposition of a holy economic torpor so, in the post-industrial silence we can all contemplate the pristine serenity of self-impoverishment (and the joys of Chinese world domination).