Am I being optimistic in thinking that at some point the American public may flip on climate change and denying it exists will become very unpopular?
Where I live we've set multiple temperature records in the last few weeks and may break a record for latest first snowfall ever. Even if correlating the weather outside with global climate conditions is a flawed metric, people have to figure out what's going on at some point... right?
It'll happen - it's bound to. Progress tends to happen that way, if you look at any of the previously divisive issues.
The problem (and please don't misread this) is that when it's about eg. gay marriage or drug enforcement, it's "only" some people's lives being ruined. That's temporary and localized. When it's about climate change, it's about the long term fate of the entire planet. There's no "rolling back the tape".
It's already too late now. And the US just elected somebody who is ready to undo the past 8 years of its own progress on climate change.
The good news is, Greenland's pretty big and mostly uninhabited.
Where I live we've set multiple temperature records in the last few weeks and may break a record for latest first snowfall ever. Even if correlating the weather outside with global climate conditions is a flawed metric, people have to figure out what's going on at some point... right?