[bett3513]

I disagree, I live in Southeast Australia and have never seen so many people accept climate change as real as this past summer.

If it takes a slight misunderstanding about weather relating to climate change to get immediate action, isn’t that a good thing?

[aksss]

"If it takes [mistruth] to get [policy change I want], isn't that a good thing?" vs. education and truth? Where does that slippery slope end?

[bett3513]

It ends that it isn’t a complete mistruth, just a small hyperbole. The massive bushfires we’re still experiencing are real, the hail storms that followed were real and the 40+ days in hazardous air quality since 1 Dec are also real. As is the past 20 years of drought my country has experienced.

These events were definitively contributed to by climate change, perhaps not direct cause and effect as some assume, but there is more than just correlation.

[manfredo]

> If it takes a slight misunderstanding about weather relating to climate change to get immediate action, isn’t that a good thing?

Probably not, since people will point out that this call to action is based in falsehood and the credibility of the movement will be compromised.