[Lakegeezer]

Back when most people believed that the sun revolved around the earth, the conversation from the deniers must have been similar. It doesn't really matter what you believe. The climate is changing. The north pole has less ice than we've seen before, our springs in the lakes region are earlier, our falls later and we are seeing the northern boundary of some insects and plants creep north.

Change cannot be legitimately denied. The extent, impact and our ability to stop the change is where the discussion should be. When we have US senators pointing at a record DC snowstorm and saying there is no change happening, it shows that we are not dealing with reasonable parties who can rationally discuss the topic. The conservative point of view should not be held by buffoons. They must go.

The elephant in the room is carbon taxing. Those against it want to deny there is a problem, when instead, they should be asking the tough questions. Will reducing carbon emissions have any effect? How accurate are the predictive models? How can we cleanse the data we have so new models can be built? The answers to those questions are squishy.

Carbon taxing probably won't work, but that is no reason to walk away from the science. It makes more sense to help Texas and Virginia buy some snowplows. Dealing with the impact of change as it comes, whatever it might be, is the most reasonable approach, especially when we don't really know what will happen in 10 or 50 years. Predicting disaster and investing for the worst case is not reasonable.