Not a single one of the cataclysmic climate predictions made over the last 50 years has been correct. Ice ages, famines, droughts, extinctions, exhaustion of natural resources...predictions that have all come and went without as much as a blip in change to our lives.

Does anyone really think we have only 12 years left to live before the world consumes itself in a destructive inferno of climate disasters? This was already supposed to happen multiple times, and each time, the 'science was settled'. We had 'consensus.'

If we had 12 years "science-settled" notice of say, a life-ending asteroid headed directly for Earth, you can bet there would be a lot more action in place to find a way to sway our untimely fate. (Perhaps assembling a
spacecraft designed by the lowest bidder that will hand deliver a nuclear payload directly to the asteroids surface?? )

If climate change is such an imminent threat, we should be relocating people away from the coasts, by force if necessary, no one should be allowed to buy any more beach front property, insurance companies would not be willing to insure anyone living in coastal lowlands. Where are the leaders on this?

The world's leaders should be making impassioned pleas on the Asian continent to immediately reform their filthy ways or else face severe consequences; after all, the fate of humanity rests on it and we are mere years away from extinction. Would we be willing to go to war with the East in order to save the world?

Instead the countries that are the cleanest and making the most efforts get patronizingly lectured to by people that are singing the same old song that we've been hearing for decades. For some reason these lecturers are afraid to call-out the most egregious offenders of climate and environmental filth: the Asian continent. While we in the West spare the ocean of a fraction of fraction of a percent of waste in the form of our formerly legal plastic straws, China dumps tens of thousands of tons of waste into it's waters.

Instead, activists and politicians make a bunch of noise about this cause, but no one is actually putting change into their personal livelihoods. Still consuming petroleum products, still purchasing products produced in those most polluting of countries, flying around the world in private jets to 'conferences' about ways to make the environment healthier, and on and on. Why is that? It's either the greatest threat to humanity and we have mere years left to live or it's not. Forgive me if I'm a bit skeptical when I see this.

It isn't "denial" or "believing". It's about skepticism.