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kozuh, meaningless .. bottom line is YOU, and more Americans than in most
advanced industrial countries still refuse to accept the best science we have ..

Indeed, it is precisely because the climate crisis is so profound that we need to encourage the American debate on the subject to move on, finally and for good, and start to focusing on how to build a bright green future as quickly as possible. The science, after all, is pretty unequivocal at this point. .. http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=167 .. Indeed, essentially the last remaining credible skeptic, Scientific American columnist Michael Shermer .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shermer .. announced this month that, despite his dislike for environmental groups

[D]ata trump politics, and a convergence of evidence from numerous sources has led me to make a cognitive
switch on the subject of anthropogenic climate change. ... Because of the complexity of the problem,
environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.

In other words, the debate is over. It's just over. Climate change is here, it's scarier than we thought, we're causing it, and (especially in combination with other large-scale environmental and social problems) it's going to demand radical innovation and major reforms.

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives//004469.html