There is some truth in those comments, but it's also true that climate change is real and we are accelerating it with our choices to burn more carbon based fuel

There is some truth in those comments, but it's also true that climate change is real and we are accelerating it with our choices to burn more carbon based fuels. It's basically undeniable at this stage, yet people whose lives are inconvenienced by it deny the truth. You cannot and should not use problems in certain papers as an excuse to deny the inexcusable.