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Interesting how a few people look at the graphs witch spike quite strong (much more than just a.few percent) and indicate that this is absolutely normal and has nothing to do with climate change.

Make out of it whatever you like, science tells us that climate change will erode our infrastructure and it will cost more than not doing anything.

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Climate change denial has fluently shifted from outright refusal to accept the reality of an impending catastrophic change in climate - to refusing to accept human origins of the change.

It now goes along the lines of “weather has always fluctuated dramatically since the ancient times and this is no different” without skipping a beat or admitting to pushing a counter-productive agenda for the last 20 years.

I’ve already seen people move on to “okay humans probably caused it but the economic models of the impact of climate change are wrong”

I wouldn't call myself a denier, but I've gone from accepting the science to mostly hoping it is in fact wrong because it doesn't look like humanity will be letting off the metaphorical accelerator pedal (not this year, maybe one of the next few years will see an actual decrease in carbon emissions?). What else is there but to hope it isn't so bad?

Stratospheric aerosol injection

I do think of it as humanity's half-assed solution and probably our best hope.

It costs only 3-5% of global GDP until 2050 to fix this. People are just being cheap as always.

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