How convenient of the climate alarmists to divorce themselves from Gore at this point. When he said these things, which really aren't that difficult to remember because they were so extreme and alarmist, the leftists were praising him for taking the point position in saving the planet. I don't recall a peep from the scientists whose research he was citing explaining that he may have overstated their predictions. Nobody in that camp seems to care if a proponent of climate change overstates the case, even if their proposed solutions are ridiculous and would result in the collapse of our economy, but if someone suggests that it might not be as bad as predicted, or God forbid that CO2 might have positive impacts as well, they go bananas.
It won't surprise me if a decade from now the most vociferous proponents of climate change will be divorcing themselves from the current cadre of politicians who are trying to use this "emergency" to advance their careers and jumping on the bandwagon of a new generation of alarmists. Of course, none of them will acknowledge the obvious parallels to Chicken Little.
Yeah, I guess there's some truth to your description of what amounts to human nature when it comes to "distancing", but I can't even remember the movie, so whatever was said there, or in his book, which I did not read, are in fact difficult for me to remember. I remember attending a showing with friends, and that's about it. I remember the friends I saw his movie with, the movie, I remember ice, and polar bears. I can't speak for the scientists. At this moment in time, both their recent assessments certainly conveyed urgency. I take them seriously. You don't.
I get the alarm, if a climate change skeptic is jaw dropped at the prospect of collapsing the economy over something that does not even exist. That would rank as an epic human failure, historic failure.
Or the UN and Trump administration assessments might be accurate.
As for the Green New Deal, AOC is a kid, she's idealistic, ambitious, driven. The scientists are stressing the urgency of the situation. The saying "something's gotta give" will probably apply here. We have a president who's on your side: "I don't believe it". Remember, he said science was all but in his genes, so he should know, right? I should be happy he's leading all the skeptic's, right? But the future might judge him a bit more harshly then the climate skeptics do, and it won't have anything to do with Russia or hush funds.
Something's gotta give. I wish I were 20, I want to see the future, regardless of what it will bring. But,I have a different prediction to yours. I foresee a time where climate skeptics find themselves saying "oh ****".
