Climate change.
Just this, quickly. As I see it there are several major parts to the climate issue.
1. Modeling what is happening and what is causeing it to happen.
2. Knowing what is causeing it to happen, what is the list of actions that can be taken to effect this change. By geographic and cultural area. In the short term and long term goals.
3. What changes are already in process and what effect are they having/will they have.
4. What methods have resulted in instigating these kind of cultural/economic changes? What methods might be most efficient in inacting these kinds of changes.
5. What are the future models of how these changes (both as they are already in effect and adding further measures), geared to the geocultural areas, will subvert and alter those cultures and their economics.
You are well versed in 1. As I see it 2. is already in progress to a greater or lesser extent worldwide and for various reasons which may not have anything to do with climate change. The 'mass population' needs to know and understand more about 3. than they need to be continuely educated about 1. All political decisions purposed by governments need to held up to 4. All governments need to continuely look at and evaluate 5 and THIS needs to be understood as the real conversation people are having, now and forever.
There are two very different 'realities' concerning climate change and two conversations. Each side is getting confused, as you and I do, about what conversation we are having. On top of that, people in different conversations are demeaning, insulting, labeling and threatening those they are not discussing the issues with.
So. It does not matter to the average person if climate change is real or not or what the latest data is expressing and neither they nor the politicians are having that discussion. This is the conversation scientists and ecoalarmists are having.
What matters is what they hear the people screaming and wailing about what these average people have done to the world and how they must turn everything off right this minute or they are going to burn (or drown or starve) in the world they don't deserve to live in. That is the conversation they are having.
No matter how many facts and charts and models are presented, the average man is just looking for some way to a) not feel so paralized with guilt (hense denying it is human caused) b) trust that an action will help mitigate this effect (hense their rejection of politically based tax and cap since no one in their right mind trusts politicians) c) know that changes will not be forced on them, but will allow for their acceptance and integration into the life they value.
That is the conversation everyone really needs to be having. Not what the projected model of what we can expect is, definitly not who is to blame, not how to punish ourselves, but rather how can we effect that model in cooperation with each other and in what myraid ways and how will this change the life we live and our children's lives in ways each culture can value.
Humans change and adapt. But they always resist change and especially forced change. Humans resist invasion. Humans evolve and create new cultures and tribes. But they resist having their culture stripped from them. Usually violently. They delight in new inventions and ways of doing things that they create. They resist new inventions and new ways of doing things that they perceive as alien.
If the objective is for global awareness of climate change and active programs to mitigate or reverse these effects, it would be good to remember these things before we start the conversation. I think it helps to acknowledge all the thousands of things we have done already done, all the millions of steps communities all over the world have and are taking towards a more ecoaware existance. To take stock of how those millions of steps have actually effected change.