Skeptics continue to mock the idea of climate change despite 2013 'best evidence'

Measuring the summer Arctic melt

Marsha Hunt---In spite of the polar weather sweeping much of the world and the extreme temperatures, fires, earthquakes and other activities identified with climate change, many people still deny the earth's atmosphere is changing, forcing the governments to develop inertia over making recommended changes.  So what is the present evidence and what do people need to know to understand that local weather anecdotes are not the same as rigorous science and that the consequences of doing nothing far outweigh the policies of corporations whose money-making notions interfere with the knowledge and changes we need.

Although there have been many articles and reports supporting scientific evidence of climate change, a significant faction of folks continue to mock the ideas, rattling their verbal swords on social media sites and trivializing the problem that is creating major problems around the world.

And while Al Gore initiated the efforts to bring the attention of the world to the anticipated problems observed by scientists decades ago, and has been mocked for those efforts, nevertheless the facts, as unfolding and substantiated by scientific research across the world, the climate is changing; and the impact of this is enormous, experts remind us. The criticisms against Gore have also been printed many times, but according to those who have followed his pronouncements over the years and reviewed the accusations, his main premise of the threat of climate change to the world's welfare has been found to be true much of the time.

Even the naysayers of the early Gore pronouncements, like former President George W. Bush, now agree there is indeed something to the urgent need to change direction and reexamine priorities when it comes to climate change, such as reducing pollutants that are said to be behind much of the problems.

Remarks by present naysayers indicate certainly that there are many people who have firmly decided the notions of climate change as being man-made are not true and simply part of backdoor politicians aligned with scientists to make money on the issue, while others, like Palin, make remarks that often poke fun at the ideas of it altogether.

Palin's remarks in 2013 reflect the rightwing notions that some say stand in the way of the changes needed to combat climate change.  She said, "I've been hearing all this hootin' and hollarin' from the liberals about how CO2 is going up to levels we haven't seen in 5 million years," Palin told Fox and Friends' host Gretchen Carlson. "But the truth is, life was pretty good millions of years ago. "There were plenty of plants and animals back then, and they did just fine in the heat. And as Earth starts to warm up, all our old friends will start coming back. The polar bears might die off, but think of all the dinosaurs we're gonna get!"

While some folks look at the polar weather and maintain that means the earth is actually getting colder and proving scientists wrong, the science has observed repeatedly the term "climate change" refers to the extremes in both directions, of hot and cold weather patterns; and that the overall direction of the earth's temperature is actually going up.

The most useful information for the world economies has less to do with the topics of immigration and economic reform than what scientists say is responsible for what might be particularly devastating, and has been for many already, and that's the consequences of climate change that include more hurricanes, typhoons, tornadoes and weather conditions that can negatively impact millions.  2013 reflected the greatest evidence yet of the negative impact of climate change, according to science experts.  And these conditions require large outlays of money and manpower to overcome or control, something which will become even more difficult in the future.