I get the strong passions in this conversation, but I don't think name-calling helps anyone.

It’s not going to convince anyone, I know. It’s just I get tired of dealing with small brain nonsense like this. Wind and solar are cheaper power, and from friends looking for tenure I know that any “doing it for funding” is imaginary. If they haven’t been convinced by now, no logical argument could ever possibly convince them. I could use an argument in pure mathematics, and they would say there is no evidence for any of my axioms. They keep asking for evidence and debate, but they are simply lying. I’m just returning the same level of respect.

You have a choice:

1) Say "you're so dumb" and everyone flags you, so you have little impact on the conversation

2) Don't say "you're so dumb", and enough people will vouch for you that your comments are visible

If strong emotions were facts, I suppose you'd win this argument.

Let's see what you think in ~10 years when the newest, focus-group tested climate crisis de jour is being pushed after "climate change" is quietly disproven and stops being sexy.

I studied meteorology in university, and I’ve read a lot of papers in climatology and adjacent fields. Please come back and talk to me once you understand atmospheric radiation, the Madden-Julian Oscillation, ENSO, the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, how isotopes can serve as proxy data, general circulation models and how they are modified for climate, economic models of ecosystem services, and how tropical storms cause economic damage. I’ll wait.

If anything your wallet is lighter because of the push for "green" technologies, which are usually much more expensive than "dirty" ones. Just compare price of Tesla vs ICE car. Not to mention things like "carbon tax" (already partially implemented in the EU)