I grew up in the 60's & 70's & I remember all the experts & magazines telling us by the year 2000 The planet would "cool" off due to the "greenhouse" effect created by man made pollution to the point where we would have less area to grow food & shorter seasons to grow food to feed the incredible overpopulated planet & than we arrived at 2000 & ooops that didn't happen.
So they devised another method stealing our money, "global warming", well that wasn't working either ,so it's now "climate change" these greedy bastards have come up with. The question I would ask is this.
Who says that the temperature today is the base temperature for the planet? Maybe the earth needs to warm up 5, 10, or even 15 degrees to reach the optimum standard for habitability for all. I don't know , they don't know.
One other question why would the two biggest polluters (India & China ) be exempt for 5(?) years & the USA where we have done a major turn around towards a cleaner environment wouldn't be exempt?
It's complicated and nothing that you can really reason out with your own brain and eyes.
The science is not settled, but a majority of scientists side with man-made climate change. However, you can't really trust this because since climate change is a reality being pushed from the government, it is the new status quo and scientists that go against the status quo lose funding and may lose their jobs because they'll be mocked, slandered, and ostracized. (just like anti-vaxxers now. Suddenly if you are anit-vax [that's the new hipster term for what you are now rather than simply being someone that prefers to not have their kid stuck with something they don't know or understand] you're some monster, your child's a plague-vector, and youtube, reddit, and other places have comment sections full of these self-righteous people saying really vicious things about anti-vaxxers. You don't hear anti-vax people saying this stuff about vaxx people)
Climate change is a natural aspect of the planet. Climate is not
meant to remain the same and the worlds climate does not serve humanity. There was a period in European History called The Little Ice Age. For about two centuries the weather had cooled down significantly. This is medieval Europe, not millions of years ago. But you can assure yourself it wasn't caused by too many refrigerants in the air. Whether climate is changing or not is a straw man argument the media pushes. The real point of contention is whether or not mankind is a major player in that climate change.
Either way...yes, it is extortion. Industries have been created that are creating appliances and such that supposedly monitor emissions and supposedly help prevent the environment from tipping over into a catastrophe. It's similar to how some people like Alex Jones sell survival kits so that paranoid people can survive a political or nuclear apocalypse (something that's very plausible), but on a far larger scale since legislation will mandate that people
must buy these things...for the good of the planet, of course.
Al Gore was the first person to sensationalize this stuff. He was also very much tied to these industries, has profited from it, and will stand to profit immensely once these industries really get underway. The fact that how much is too much or too little seems a little to arbitrary. Who will decide and how can you verify, personally, that you're not being cheated? Plus, do you know what the legislation will actually say? They're saying that everyone will be held accountable, but is that actually true?
Also, you'll have to be very suspicious of why the sudden sentiment for the welfare of the environment when things like oil fracking, deforestation, and the like are being green-lit almost side-by-side with this climate change stuff.
In short. The real debate on the matter is not settled, it's just been steam-rolled. However, whether it is true or not, they are certainly lining up to squeeze every little billion they can from it. The Paranoia Industry now has people paying up communal insurance on the planet. Have fun.