Opinion | Is climate change really too hard to understand?

The world has always changed. Repeat ALWAYS CHANGED. We are coming out of an ice age. If you are coming out of an ice age does the world get colder or warmer? Is that to tough a question? Right now the only tool in the box is the hammer of “global warming “. Every thing we see gets pounded with it. None of the models have worked and predictions have failed. Measured temperatures are alter and adjusted, always upward, to fit the model and story. Members of the American Physical Society are barred from discussing global warming. Protocols for temperature data handling are violated. Formulas and data are kept secret related to earth’s temperature are guarded. Congress can’t even pry it out of NOAA hands. Nonscientific data is mixed with scientific data to get predetermined results. Scientists who insist on openness and transparency and question what is happening are shunned. So yes it is hard to understand.

Not really, I think its just hard to visualize. Climate is variable and affected by many things besides what we observe. For the most part the cause and effect is easy to understand but how it comes together is hard for a lot of people to visualize. For instance rising CO2 levels have increased ocean bleaching and acidification but a lot people can't visualize what that means for ecosystems, marine life or coastal habitat. Additionally, greenhouse gases have attributed to global warming which is melting the ice shelf and causing our oceans to thermally expand. Both of these factors are causing sea levels to rise and accelerate coastal/beach erosion. Which in turn is destroying numerous properties and displacing hundreds of species among other things. It's these connections people just can't visualize. Technology is also partly to blame, many policy makers rely on engineered solutions to fix things caused by climate change like droughts, floods, etc. In the end many people in urban communities can't (or won't) see how climate change affects them because they're cities are mostly insulated/isolated from these events. On the other hand you have communities like Cape Town with a severe water crisis. And all of sudden people can see what the effects of climate/precipitation. Basically, it's not a problem until it becomes one.