Red flag: "mainstream media". Anything complaining about this is virtually certain to be way, way off track. There have been plenty of nonsense predictions fr

Red flag: "mainstream media". Anything complaining about this is virtually certain to be way, way off track. There have been plenty of nonsense predictions from *non-scientists*. Where have the climate scientists gotten it wrong, though? The only question is one of speed/size. And denying that change is harmful is another aspect of the problem. Sure, we have survived it. We "survived" the late Permian extinction event (believed to be about 8C)--but the majority of species did not and most of the Earth was basically uninhabited. In the other direction we don't have enough data to figure out what percent of species was lost in the snowball. Note that the worst-case estimates I have seen for warming are 14C. (6C from CO2 plus 8C from methane hydrates.) The methane hydrate numbers are uncertain enough they aren't even included in the IPCC estimates at all. As for having skin in the game--they're humans even if they aren't our direct descendants. The pathological belief is the denial of what's happening.