[spacetime_cmplx]

You could apply the same logic to anyone ringing the alarm bells about climate change (or alarm bells in general). Just because snake oil is usually unfalsifiable doesn't mean everything _currently_ unfalsified is snake oil.

[93po]

To be fair a large amount of the doomsaying around climate change has been proven to be hyperbole and wrong. The data around climate change is very real, but the most vocal people about it have been saying stuff like cities being underwater and ice caps melting and extreme weather like never before seen, and all in the timescale of 10-20 years. And this is going back to the 60s. We're now 60 years in the future and things are basically the same.

[spaceman_2020]

Climate change doesn't impact every part of the world equally. If the temperature rises a couple of degrees in the US Midwest, it's probably not going to be catastrohpic. If it rises a couple of degrees in Bangladesh, it's going to make the place unlivable.

Personally, living in a hot tropical country, I've experienced weather patterns becoming weirder and weirder, and generally trending towards way too hot. Last year, the summer was so long and dry and hot that I really felt that I can't physically live here any longer. And that's when I had the luxury of AC - something the vast majority of my country can't afford.

So yeah, it's easy to dismiss climate change if you live in a cold climate. It's much more real in warm, dry countries.