Bobert:

I'm with you, to a point. Life skills are worth transmitting, but whose duty is it to do the transmitting? As the poet sez:

"Life is hard, it's even harder when you're dumb." Not to say that poor and ignorant equates to dumb but y'gotta admit there's a tendency. As attributed to Dorothy Parker: "You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think."

Teribus et al:

As far as global warming and who's to blame. There is a lot of chest beating on both sides of the issue. One thing I've picked up over the years, the media don't know sh*t, they bleat the latest dire warning to suit the distribution numbers of their publications.

Real science takes time and as the physicist Richard Feynman said: "I know how hard it is to know something."