Wow. That quote of Watson sounds like a modification of something attributed to Goebbels.
'If you repeat a lie enough it becomes the truth' or words to that effect.
The main driver of climate change is the Sun. The sheer ignorance of anyone who states 'we've had the warmest winter since records began. Therefore we have global warming' is depressing. There have been over forty scare narratives by the media in the last fifty years. Global cooling to global warming to climate change. Peak oil, peak population, mass starvation, various doombug scenarios, yah de yah. Michael Moore made a fortune out of scary predictions which all proved false.
We'd need 4.5 billion years of climate records to make reasonable predictions and these false prophets of doom are asking us to believe their less than 200 years of climate change records gives an accurate answer. They then confuse correlation with causality and extrapolate in a completely unscientific way. Follow the money which buys their 'research'
We've had ice ages lasting 100,000 years. We've had desert temperatures in Northern Europe, all long before industrialisation.
I'd give my full support however to the need to look at reducing pollution and toxic waste and moving in an increasingly sustainable direction. Manipulating children to deliver a distorted message is counterproductive.
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