Megatons of energy, in the form of heat from our sun, are added to our atmosphere's collective energies every day. Some of that heat radiates into space, and some is trapped by our atmosphere. More heat will be trapped by the system as more carbon dioxide is added to the system. If we trap too much heat our climate will undergo catastrophic change.
Each of those facts can be demonstrated using physics and chemistry. Or one could just look at the planet Venus.
The only question is whether or not we’ve added enough carbon.
By way of fossil fuel consumption we humans add millions of tons of carbon dioxide to our atmosphere every day, and most scientists studying our climate think those additions are too much and are currently causing that change.
Yet today they are mostly ignored here in the United States, or scoffed at. Climate change denial has become one of the main beams propping up an entire culture of anti-science and anti-government thinking.
Why? Why cultivate that denial when it will potentially mean such damage?
Profit.
It’s hard to make money on fossil fuels after people realize the damage they’re doing. Getting that realization is the trick, and for me these angles have been successful.
It’s also hard to argue against the sun, or against the greed of humans.