I've followed the climate change fight for half of my adult life by now. As with my political beliefs, I've moved from the conservative 'it's a hoax' stance to the liberal 'it's a threat to all life' position in the late 90's and early 2000's. I regularly check up on the for and against arguments, although not in the detail Galaxiom does, and I have always found the 'anti-AGW' crowd's data and reporting to be fatally and fundamentally flawed as well as deliberately slanted. The one thing, however, that really, truly jumps out at me is that while the 'it's not real' crowd does push out a ton of articles, they're coming from an EXTREMELY tiny number of sources, most of which have obvious financial or political ties to entities with vested interests in 'proving' it's a non-issue.
Between those ties and the ridiculously tiny number of sources compared to all the reports indicating it to be a biosphere-threatening danger, I have to strongly disagree that it is 'not settled'. We're talking about roughly the same proportion of people who argue that vaccines are 'not settled', despite their proven effectiveness, and I don't see you arguing that vaccines aren't settled science. Honestly, all I see is a tiny crowd putting out a lot more sound than its size would suggest it capable of, a batch of political and corporate leaders buying into the idea because it increases their own wealth and power, and a crowd of gullible Americans buying into it because their leaders tell them to.
(And no, that's not really the slam it sounds like - I've seen a number of studies all showing that conservative natures and authoritarian tendencies go hand-in-hand. And by 'authoritarian tendencies' in this case, I very much mean 'I believe this because someone in a position of authority told it to me.' That's always been one of the great divides between liberals and conservatives throughout human history.)
As to politics, I'm disappointed you voted for Trump, no more, and everyone is allowed, after all, to vote how they want. What angers me is when I see you (or anyone else, really) accepting his most barbaric and anti-American actions such as instituting a policy of stripping children from parents specifically to scare immigrants away, or any other of his multitude of attacks on democratic norms. I really couldn't care less about Trump's womanizing and abrasiveness, other than remarking on the idiocy of all those 'Good Christians' declaring him to be anointed by God. What I'm against is his constant attacks on the foundations of democracy itself, his blatant racism, his glaringly obvious corruption, his constant sucking up to dictators and strongmen while attempting to destroy our closest alliances, and his sheer brutality in his attempts to Make America White Again. And it appalls and enrages me any time I see an educated person cheering on behavior such as tearing families apart and gassing women and children simply because, when all the propaganda is stripped away, they aren't white.
So my issue with you isn't that you voted for Trump; it's for your avowed support of even the most vile and destructive actions he's taken. I don't expect us to agree on, say, gun control or abortion rights, but I had, sadly, hoped we could agree that stealing children from their families and gassing non-combatants was wrong.
Also, don't take me for a conspiracy theorist. While the Illuminati, as you mentioned, make for wonderful antagonists in stories (btw, since you're something of a gamer, you should really try the Deus Ex games, possibly starting with the relatively recent Human Revolution), I don't for a moment believe they exist in real life. Rx_ is the local conspiracy theorist, not me.
Edit: And just to make it perfectly clear, the Illuminati were included as an example of just how ridiculous the anti-vaxxers can get. You should SEE the stuff one anti-vaxxer I know keeps sending me, and I don't even HAVE kids! Anyway, I in no way, shape, or form, believed that you think they are real.
