Well she is right. If that is honestly the biggest issue on your plate, then you are doing pretty good.

She agreed with him in the interview - she was just getting him to reaffirm it to the other folk they were debating with

welll if you are sitting on a bomb maybe, but considering climate change is a bomb we're all sitting on i think it's pretty urgent....

I think the magic word here is "urgent". Sure climate change is important, but it will take some years to have any considerable effect, and even when it does, it's not like we won't be able to live on Earth anymore, things will change, climates will change, but that's it, we will adapt as we have done all these centuries. So when you compare it to things such as wars, hunger, homeless people... you can't really claim climate change is our most urgent, number one priority now, can you?

That is basically speculation, what you mean is, with our current technology and knowledge, the longer we wait, the harder it will be. You don't know how things will turn out, you can't even claim climate change will bring a bad outcome, I am not saying it won't, what I am saying is we can't say for certain it will. On the other hand, you have problems that are happening right now and that are killing people. Don't get me wrong, I do find climate change important, mostly because it often goes with pollution, but what was asked was to claim that climate change is our number one priority right now, which I would say isn't.

Fellow anon. Peoples lives are cheap. The consequences of climate change is far more important to prioritize. Starvation is only as big of an issue as there is people who are starving. When the issue passes, so does the person.

However, climate change will affect our children and their grandchildren. Huge amounts of ice melts each day. The CO2 that is belching out into the atmosphere is in gigatons. The fact is that even though we've done all we can to cut emissions, the increase in people still means millions of gigatons of CO2 in the atmosphere. A portion of this CO2 is absorbed by the oceans, increasing its acidity, which in turn kills coral reefs, which results in less fish, which starves other fish, which in turn destabalizes an eco system that we rely on. Due to global warming, we are currently experiencing the latest of multiple mass extinction events, caused by ourselves.

The increase of temperature also has effects in the world. For one, the power and frequency of storms will increase. Also, my once lovely cold north didn't get any snow this year. That annoys me to no end. Long story short, there's no need to wait for its effects, they are already here, affecting us daily. Species get extinct due to starvation caused by us, causing extinction of another and another. Is it really more important to focus on the unfortunate few humans rather than trying to fix the mass extinction of important marine life that the planet needs for a healthy eco system?

Now, we're anons, we're not dicks. So stop being a dick.

Would you mind share some sources to your claims? I mean everybody is talking about this stuff but have you checked any of it?

Like for the last 18 years there has been nearly none increase in global temperature. All the predictions claim there would be like 2-3 K warming at the end of this century, meaning there should be about 0,4-0,6 K increase per 20 years. The measurements show about 0,1 top which is about the normal rate of natural climate change. So where is your Global warming?

You claim the ice is melting. Where did you get that from? Yes there has been slight decrease of ice on north pole, but on the other hand there is increase on the south pole. In fact in 2014 new record was set by most of the ice area ever recorded on south pole. So where is all that ice of yours disappearing?

Reason why you didnt have any snow in 2015 is big El Nino, so thats not consequence of your claimed man made Global warming. And there is much much more that is usually said and is not true.

Yes CO2 is greenhouse gas. Yes we produce CO2. But that doesnt mean we somehow affect the global climate in any significant way. Climate will probably do what it were doing for last 4b years. Our actions are much like farting against the wind. It will change speed of it for some extend sure, but wind will still blow however it wants...

... To check the temperature measurement google "giss surface temperature" and look at the graphs. It shows that global temperature is increasing at steady rate for tha last ~ 140 years. To check the ice level google "cryosphere today" and see that there is not really any change...

There's a theory that 6 degrees warming would cause a catastrophic chain reaction that could kill 90% of life on the planet. So yeah I'd say that takes precedense. link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11538-015-0126-0

Just pointing out that maybe, just maybe, she wasn't implying that there is no climate change or that climate change isn't an issue, but rather that there are more important short-term things to solve than climate change?