Science is not a single entity with a single voice. Many scientists have been warning us, for over a century, that a massive shift to industrialization would have bad, terrible, catastrophic (depending on which scientist you read) consequences, and that we should modify the way we use fossil fuels, the waste of resources. the way we keep multiplying and devastating ecosystems.
The reason governments have failed to respond, and that industries have, on the contrary, bought large piles of disinformation on the subject and pressured governments into inaction - is
not that they didn't know the exact proportions of natural to man-made change. If that had been the reason, they would have sponsored more studies, rather than suppressing the ones already done; they would have invested in mitigating the predicted changes, instead of economic growth.
It's that they
did know and didn't want us to care.
At the same time they are telling us that the poles are shifting and have been all along but they don't articulate what this shift is doing to our cllimate.
I'm sure the ones who know this science are writing it up in journals, so you can find out. They don't call you up personally to relate their latest findings, and the popular media don't present a lot of the boring stuff - they like volcanoes and dinosaur bones. It doesn't matter: you can't affect the poles anyway.
You can presume anything you like - if you try hard enough.
But if you look at a river covered in oil or at a sky dark grey with coal smoke, a little voice in your head has to be saying: "this is not good." Every time you buy a plastic bottle of water that's been shipped across an ocean, or hear an air force jet scream over your head, you
know: this is not good.
Do you then go into the booth and vote for the candidate who's dedicated to improving your environment, or the one who promised to cut your taxes?
I have hope in the upcoming generations, hopefully they will be less influenced by what the current generations see as the status quo. Hopefully, they will be able to create a new future for everyone and everything.
They'll cope with whatever we leave them, however they can.