For the people who are convinced by the half-truths of Praeger U or other climate deniers, for those so attached to a particular side of a political aisle that they have denied the findings of climate science out of habit of disagreeing,

Denial of the impact of human activity on the climate has tremendous moral significance.

Heaven, Hell, Purgatory; Judgment; Karma; your legacy; how your loved ones think about you when it becomes clear to them that climate science wasn’t a joke; your moral compass; sleepin’ easy; feeling good about yourself; earning trust–

All the big tickets are at stake in this issue. So be sure that you are certain that all that wretched smog really is benign; that it could not possibly affect our planet’s temperature and weather patterns. Be certain that previous super-volcanic eruptions didn’t wipe out nearly all life on Earth by spewing similar fumes at a lower rate. Be certain that humans couldn’t possibly affect the climate–just because the climate has changed without human intervention in the past. Be certain that shortwave radiation from the sun doesn’t make it past the greenhouse gas layer; or that it doesn’t get radiated back from Earth in the form of longwave radiation; or that it doesn’t then get absorbed by the greenhouse gas layer, causing heat to be retained for a matter of time, and forming a crucial capacity for our planet to not go into a deep freeze everytime the sun dips below the horizon, but also forming a layer that could bake us all if it were to accumulate beyond the level that permits our (currently decreasingly) comfortable “Goldilocks” zone.