2016 was third consecutive year of record global warmth
I&#x27;m dismayed that the very environment we all share somehow got politicized to death. I wonder what would have happened to the Ozone Hole if it too got politicized at the time, or the link between smoking and cancer if it got politicized. We trust our doctors; we trust our tech leaders; why don&#x27;t we trust our scientists and climatologists? (Is this, sort of, Gore&#x27;s fault, combined with a highly-polarizing media? I have to wonder.)<p>At this point I have almost no faith that until things get dire enough to cause even the most ignorant layperson to realize there&#x27;s a serious problem going on, that anything impactful will be done to stop it, and by then it may be too late due to runaway multiplicative effects (such as the thawing of permafrost methane in the Arctic, or the absence of snow cover resulting in less planet-surface reflectivity)