There are 4 types of people involved in Climate Change.
1. The Earth Scientists. These are the people who know what Climate Change is and will do. They do research. They get together and compile things like this:
https://www.ipcc.ch/They are the most trustworthy, not just because they do the actual research and know what they're talking about but because when they're in groups an individual's personal opinion doesn't matter. Only the data and science is important.
2. The well meaning activist. These are people that read what #1 has to say and believe them. They don't understand the science, they don't have the education or do the research. They just realize that the people most likely to be correct are those who study the problem.
3. The paid for deniers. These are the people who are invested in businesses that will be hurt if #1 is correct. These are the people who hire PR firms to try and come up with ways to deny there's a problem and try and convince you that there is no climate change or that climate change won't be so bad, or even that it's good for the environment. They are desperate to save their profits and the very real possibility that they could go to prison for their actions in hiding the truth. They include those who are bribed to lie in any way they can, to obfuscate the truth, to hope that they can bend public opinion to their side, despite the fact that 99% of the researchers are in group 1.
4. Well meaning but uninformed people who listen to #3. These are the people who's lives will be affected if #1 is right. Who realize that it means they'll have to drive their cars less, turn the heater off and wear a sweater, maybe even move out of their middle class neighborhood and into apartments because suburbia is a failure. Their lives are threatened by #1 so they will deny, deny, deny, and hold on to whatever bad science they can get their hands on which #3 hands out like drowning rats grasping straws.
