97% agreement among the world community of thousands of climate scientists is settled enough science to justify political action.
Skeptics will always exist, as they should (science would stagnate without them), but we should not allow 3% to hold us hostage. If 97% are wrong, then oh well, all we did was clean up our environment while motivated by a slightly incorrect reason.
If I get testy about this issue, it's because the future habitability of our globe for our kids and grandkids and their offspring is at stake, and too many are content to dismiss it from a position of reflexive partisanship as a 16-year-old's science project or a globalist plot to somehow enslave us by making us by a mere 2% higher taxes or whatever.
The climate issue eclipses issues like taxation rates, healthcare, racism/sexism/whatever-ism, and everything that Donald Trump has or hasn't gotten up to over the past 3 years (because his presidency, too, shall pass in one way or another).
If we pump so much CO2 into our atmosphere that our planet becomes an analogue of Venus, then we won't have any of that to argue over anymore: because we'll all be dead.
And by "all," I don't mean literally all -- I am an optimist enough to think humanity will always find a way to carry on, in one form or another -- but millions and millions will die, let alone the damage to other species.
Not tomorrow, not in ten years, maybe not even in 50 or 100 years. But it's coming. And while 100 years seems far away from the standpoint of our short human lives, it is the blink of an eye in geologic terms.
