Science these days is all about funding research. . yes, funding research from the government. There are limited jobs for scientists in the corporate world . . .
How else does one get funding these days is through perceived crises and funding research about it. .
However,
The earth has been warming slowly since the last ice age,
The thermometer is at max 200 years old. . . amazingly
A volcanic eruption puts more bad stuff into the atmosphere in one eruption than what you can personally prevent if you devoted your entire life to preventing bad stuff
The earth can only support X million of humans before going beyond the tipping point.
The tipping point is an unknown event after which the population will dramatically decline back to a more sustainable level
If for any reason the world runs out of oil, there will be mass starvation. .
So panicking early is better than being led to the extinction event like a dinosaur. .
YMMV
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