Something I should say more often

[MadMojoMonkey]

Can't really blame people shouting from the rooftops for not being heard, IMO.

There are some really epic science communicators out there.
(Niel DeGrasse Tyson, Sean Carrol, Bill Nye, etc., and dozens of excellent YouTube channels.)

I think the greater issue isn't great science communicators, but the media not putting them center stage very much.
Which is probably because ratings.
Which is probably because "the people" don't care about science, only technology.

I.e. people don't care about theoretical advancements or the minutia of how data is acquired and analyzed. They care about the impact on their lives. That opens the door for people to scam them into whatever they want. The impact on your life of climate change is significant and unpleasant. It's not a new microwave, it's a mandate for a new standard of self-discipline. People don't want new self-discipline, and so they look for flaws in the science. But they don't know science, so they'll listen to anyone who sounds like they know science that tells them they don't have to have new self-discipline.

[wufwugy]

The impact on your life of climate change is significant and unpleasant.

What is that impact?

(Niel DeGrasse Tyson, Sean Carrol, Bill Nye, etc., and dozens of excellent YouTube channels.)

I like Sean Carrol, haven't seen him say anything misinforming.

[MadMojoMonkey]

What is that impact?

Everything suggested on the consumer level is drop in the ocean stuff - i.e. BS.
I mean, it's good to conserve energy, but it's not the consumer level where the impact is, it's the industrial level.
The cost of big industry going green is significant, and that's about as much as we know, because we have to know the legal standards in order to speculate the cost of change.

Ultimately, the impact on consumers is going to be paying more for all goods and services, such that companies can afford to do business in a manner that doesn't pollute at catastrophic levels.

You'd know better than I what it does economically for those costs to increase.