This article, like most climate change articles (particularly on Medium) has a whole lot of rhetoric and very little information.

To what degree is mankind affecting climate change? Roughly what would the temperature rise look like if humans weren’t here? What is your solution to climate change and how much will it cost?

Climate activists love to talk about how more people need to believe in climate change, and yet offer very little factual information.

“Last month, scientists warned that we had only about 12 years to cut global emissions in half.” — I’m getting Dejavu for some reason? Oh, that's right.

2006 NASA scientist James Hansen says the world has a 10-year window of opportunity to take decisive action on global warming and avert catastrophe. See here.

2007 U.N. Scientists say only eight years left to avoid worst effects See here.

Now in 2019, we have 12 years left.

Well let’s assume that is indeed correct, (unlike a majority of the IPCC’s predictions and models), and we only have 12 years to change. What then?

And no, it’s not just about ending “climate denial” it’s about providing an actually viable solution to the problem, which at the moment, nobody has.

If there were market-based renewable energy that was relatively on par with current energies, companies would adopt it like wildfire, at the very least to make themselves look good. Corporate Social Responsibility and all that.

However, we don’t have a viable solution. There’s nuclear, which most environmentalists don’t want to use, and solar and wind, which are unreliable, inefficient and expensive.

Look at the “progressive” Germany, who went into energy poverty when trying to shift to more solar and wind. see here.

“Annual deadly heat waves and widespread famine, tens of millions of climate refugees, global coastal flooding, and disasters that will cost double the world’s present-day wealth.”

Can you prove any of this? Can you prove that sea level change is due to anthropogenic global warming? Or that there’ll be millions of climate reguees? In fact, deaths and costs due to natural disasters have been plummeting over the past few decades, as we’ve developed more infrastructure and defense mechanisms.

If your goal was to convince non-believers, you might want to rethink your tact.