global warming

Man I hate the heat, it hit about 80 today and that is too much, I am currently sitting in my computer room with an ice pack on my chair and it is still horribly uncomfortable, I may have to get a laptop again so I can avoid the upper floor of the house until temperatures reach the safe zone once more.

I think it's gonna be a hot summer.

One thing I never understood about global warming is, well there is a lot I don't understand, I cannot quote the science about it off the top of my head, I can't tell you why temperature shifts the way it does, I don't really know what El Nino is. I've read it before, I didn't retain it.

But I do know that when I choose to learn about it the sources are there, and those sources are vast, the evidence is everywhere and available in everything from dense scientific papers to friggin pop scientists dumbing it down for the rest of us. I believe, based on the evidence presented to me, that it is real, and anecdotally, well, it sure feels like it's been getting hotter here in Oregon over the last twenty five years.

The specific thing I don't understand tonight though is why people fight so hard to deny it, even to the point of refusing to back alternative sources of energy or reducing emissions. Let's say they are right, let's say the under 1% of reputable scientists have been unfairly maligned and correct this whole time, global warming isn't real and is made up by the Chinese as part of a trade war or some shit. What then?
Is reducing our reliance on fossil fuels going to hurt the country or the economy? Is preventing greenhouse gas emissions, most of which you don't really want to be breathing anyway somehow harmful? How about protecting the forests and oceans full of organisms which literally make the atmosphere we breath, well, breathable?

I just don't get what the end goal of the big international conspiracy is, even if global warming was a hoax(it's not) it looks like every possible consequence of the fight against it benefits the world.

I realize I am not the first person to ever make this argument, and I realize that at the higher levels of power those who are fighting against the above initiatives know full well that what they are fighting is real and of long term benefit, as do those who back them, which is of course the problem. Because those who back them are the traditional companies based on oil and coal, they know full well the harm they do and they don't care because there isn't a profit in caring.

I get that, what I don't get is why the people who don't have anything to gain from it have such a bug up their ass about it, if you don't work as a hilariously evil oil company executive or the politicians who love them, then what is the problem?

I got no answers there besides people being idiots, but I guess that isn't any surprise by this point either.

I'm going to bed, it's hot.