It’s easy to blame everything on climate change, and anyone who isn’t dialled into this narrative is labelled a denier. The climate is changing; everyone knows that, but it is constantly changing, and there’s nothing we can do to stop it.

Politicians never miss an opportunity to scare the public into believing the world is about to end unless we change our lives, but there is little evidence to support a climate emergency. Climatologists who are not on the government payroll will tell you the planet is warming up because we’re still coming out of the last ice age, and it will get a lot warmer regardless of how much we cut back on fossil fuels. They are looking at the bigger picture, yet we’re prepared to risk our very existence on the evidence gathered since records began. That was only a hundred and forty years ago; we need to go back millions of years to even begin to understand how the planet has evolved and predict the future.

Common sense needs to kick in at some point, and the public need to hear the arguments on both sides rather than governments shutting down anyone who disagrees with their narrative. That’s how we learn and can make informed decisions instead of running around like proverbial headless chickens.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2966

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOP_Publishing

1 hour ago, drpaladin said:

Unfortunately, since scientists depend on grants both public and private to fund their studies and research and access to those are heavily weighted toward those who adhere to the current narratives in vogue, any citation claiming X percent of scientists believe anything is virtually worthless.

Can you give any sources with evidence, direct or indirect, for your claim?

You have a "dr" in your nick, do you have a PhD or have you ever made a scientific publication?

I am not trying to anger you or anyone else. I find making such a statement without any supporting evidence very dangerous. People like us (assumption here, sorry if assuming that you are LGBTQ+ is incorrect) are very quickly at the receiving end of statements made without any supporting evidence like "all homos are pedophiles."

The Midwest is also home to the New Madrid earthquake fault, one of the  potentially very dangerous faults in the United States.  I have felt tremors from the fault, and I am between 200 and 300 miles (322 - 483 km) distant from that fault.