[jbattle]

I've said this before, and I'll say it again. But I know exactly how the next 20 years will play out. Climate change skeptic/deniers will go through the following evolution in the message:

- The climate isn't changing in any meaningful way

- The climate is changing, but not because of people

- Sure the climate is changing because of people's actions, but changing our ways is too expensive, we'll just have to adapt

- Of course everyone always believed we should have done something about climate change, but liberals stood in the way of the solutions we suggested (something invented about public vs private solutions)

[dTal]

"Liberals" have stood in the way, in their own way. Any kind of bold technological approach immediately runs afoul of "environmentalists", who are powerless to stop the existing destruction of ecosystems but will protest till the cows come home about anything new. They would sooner see the Great Barrier Reef die of acidification than a single new nuclear plant.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

[Thimothy]

Dude, you are 20 years ahead of your time.

[dTal]

If this is a compliment, then I demur.

If it's sarcasm, you probably consider my thinking sloppy and I'd like to know why.

If it's just a joke, then hah hah and forget I replied.

Text can be such an ambiguous medium!