I wish the political discussion wasn't framed around climate change, but instead was just framed around reducing pollution, improving energy independence and (e

I wish the political discussion wasn't framed around climate change, but instead was just framed around reducing pollution, improving energy independence and (eventually) improving efficiency. That is easier for the public to understand, a much more palatable claim (instead of a "the sky is falling" An Inconvenient Truth-type claim), and difficult for anyone to oppose ideologically. Any time there is a change in models or predictions discussed in the news regarding climate science, you see conservatives mocking it and at the same time almost praising oil drilling and fracking. It is just so bizarre. And I imagine all this politicization has to have a negative consequences for the field (not to mention the planet and the things living on it).