> Climate change is going to suck, but I focus on the fact that we've been fighting against really horrifically bad reasoning skills. Climate change is really b

> Climate change is going to suck, but I focus on the fact that we've been fighting against really horrifically bad reasoning skills. Climate change is really basic chemistry... The reality is worse than this. Most people that strongly believe in climate change are also ignorant of basic chemistry, promulgating solutions that betray their lack of understanding of e.g. the laws of thermodynamics. On top of this, most people's understanding of chemistry is at the naive level of basic lab chemistry. When you need to scale chemistry, especially at planetary scales, it plays by a completely different set of rules and we largely pretend these rules don't exist because 1) they are too complex for most people to understand and 2) they are inconvenient for those selling easy solutions. I am a climate doomer of sorts, having working on climate off and on for decades, but not because the problem cannot be mitigated in theory. Currently, both "sides" are delusional about the science and economics of regulating the climate. The public discourse is almost entirely soundbites from people disinterested in the science while trying to smuggle in unrelated ideological agendas, regardless of the side they claim to represent. As long as scientifically literate perspectives are considered a fringe take, progress on this matter will be limited and in many cases coincidental. I don't see this changing anytime soon.