Just Like Acid Rain.

       Have you ever heard of acid rain? It was back about 25 to 30 years ago when acid rain was destroying forests, lakes and streams in northeastern United States and eastern Canada. It finally took the government to force the coal and oil industries to stop pumping sulfur oxide and carbon monoxide into the air. The oil and coal industries fought the controls, but they worked.
       Acid rain is pretty much a thing of the past in America. So why is it that the oil and coal industries have been so successful at fighting the science of climate change and our contributions to it? They've managed to get many conservatives, especially conservative politicians to agree with them. They've got people believing it's a hoax in spite of the overwhelming evidence offered by the worlds climatologists and scientists of the warming of the planet caused mainly by human activity.
       I think the reason is that everybody could see the results of acid rain in the dying forests of the northeast along with the dead lakes and streams. But Global warming isn't so obvious. More storms and unusual weather patterns don't look like global warming. After all, it still gets cold in the winter, right? But not as cold around the world. Just because it isn't hot where you are, doesn't mean the world isn't getting warmer, causing severe weather and oceans warming and species disappearing. You need to wake up while you can still smell roses.