I also came to believe that the people promoting this hoax didn't believe a word of the pap they put out, but...over time, I have come to conclude that in a weird form of mass hysteria in the "leadership" of this movement, they deluded themselves into thinking it was real.
Not the proles, of course. The believers in the levels below the leadership swallowed it hook, line, and sinker. But I have concluded that many at the top bought into their own BS.
As for the scientific community, sadly, I think much of the "support" in it was driven by money and jobs. If you didn't genuflect at the altar of climate change, you wouldn't get the research grants or jobs.
Worse, if you spoke out publicly against the fraud, your entire livelihood was at stake.
What a mess. What a sad state of affairs. All the money wasted that could have been put to better use. All the kids indoctrinated in schools, that heightened their anxiety about the future.
Bear with me-I know this seems unrelated, but I believe this is the unseen damage that this "Climate Change" hoax, which they have indoctrinated young kids from Kindergarten up for decades now, has caused.
I recently watched a movie called "Where The Wild Things Are" which was based on the famous children's book. It is about a seven or eight year old kid whose life is in such upheaval that he has to find escape in a fantasy world.
Now, I have never read the book, but I have seen it in bookstores and such so often that I wanted to see what it was about, and it was free to watch. I never finished it, because once it descended into the kid's fantasy, it became kind of silly and boring.
But, before he went into his fantasy world "where the wild things are", it showed what his life was like. His mother was divorced which uproots many kids, but his mother was dating men, which distressed him even more. He didn't have any friends, and his sister was at least six years older than him and not interested in him.
And when he was in grade school, the dweeby male teacher in some science class was talking about the Earth and the Sun, and this dweeb, talking to the kids, was saying this:
"...And the sun is the center of our solar system. It's the reason that all the planets are here. It, uh, its warmth gives the sunlight, makes our planet livable.
And of course the sun won't always be here to keep us warm. It, uh, like all things will die. And when it does, first it expands. Enveloping all the surrounding planets, including earth...before consuming rapidly. The sun, after all, is just fuel, burning ferociously. When it runs of fuel, well, it'll be gone. Well, after that the. solar system will go dark, permanently.
I'm sure by that time, the human race will have fallen to any numbers of calamities. War, pollution, global warming, tsunamies, earthquakes, meteors...Hey, who knows, right?"
This movie starts out trying to show why this kid, with all the uncertainty and turbulence in his eight year old life would retreat into fantasy. Every young child has things that can make any normal kid feel completely untethered and vulnerable, it is part of growing up.
But what made me angry watching this is that it is wholly deliberate on the part of adults in general, and "educators" in particular. Their young minds are just so pliable they cannot resist digging into their grey matter and manipulating them. This initial part of the movie showed that well-look at the kid's face in that screen capture above. And the kids sitting behind them.
As a kid, you don't have a comprehensive or full understanding of an abstract concept like "the future". When they are talking about the sun dying, expanding, and consuming the earth, or...the climate changing, with the Earth having a "fever" and all the trees and plants dying to be replace by desert...sometime in the "future"...to that kid the future could be before they are 12 years old.
It angered me to watch it. It is only a portrayal in a movie, but...to those kids listening to that voice of authority, it was very real and near.
This manipulation of kids is one of the unseen and largely unacknowledged aspects of this cruel hoax.