I still see a frightening amount of parallels between the Climate issues and the Lead issues some fifty years back... Thirty years of well-funded pseudoscience against an overwhelming majority of actual science finally took the majority of lead out of consumer products but it was one hell of an uphill battle. This is part of the reason why you need less politicians with "Law" degrees (Read: Professional bullshitters) and more scientifically literate people in positions of power.
Al Gore seems to be a stain on the scientific community just by virtue of a passing association. Personally, I'm one of those people who thought Al Gore's best contribution to the world was Voicework for Futurama, so I'm not in Manbearpig territory, I'm just in a very deliberate state of objective rational.
It's been an historic consistency that when you find large sums of money funding a tiny portion of global opinion taking an opposing consensus toward an academic majority, that opinion has invariably been false and self-serving. Meanwhile, if you take a step back to unfuck yourself and ask what kind of repercussions are we dealing with in both cases, you find that the only time in which negative outcomes are guaranteed is by simply doing nothing.
Climate change could be revealed as a hoax tomorrow and I'd still not feel dumb for believing it had existed. The circumstances of such a debunking would determine in what regard I still hold the scientific community though; bumbling climate-scientist virgins still looking for the G-spot of methodology, unfamiliar with the techniques needed to truly validate information objectively? Or deliberate falsification of facts for their own end? Which circumstances makes a difference.
But because the movement against Climate change (Especially in the plebes who just ingest the propaganda) is much like Religion, the argument against Climate change is shooting from the hip at best, and pissing directly into gale-force winds at worst. I'll take being wrong and rational over being right and a lucky moron any day.
Okay, I've fulfilled the "Page a day" rule for Friday. For those unfamiliar, it's the rule that if you ever wish to have a career writing anything, you should write(And read) at least a page a day. Doesn't matter what.