[bradfordarner]

How is it that everyone (82% Nationally) seems to agree that the most critical step forward (Funding Research in Renewable Energy) is a good thing BUT we spend all of our time arguing about whether or not global warming is happening??

This reminds me of a failing, early-stage start up. Rather than just getting to the grind and finding a way to make money, it is so easy to just spend time dreaming and argue about the way forward and spending your time ignoring complaining customers while I'm sitting around pondering how to change the world.

[VLM]

I like your idea of startup analogy.

I'd propose its more like you have two partners who hate each other viciously and spend all their time scheming for their dominance and submission of the other. Meanwhile there's programmers trying to ship a MVP. Now as long as the partners verbally argue constantly, they can't screw up what the programmers are trying to do. But if one partner gains total supremacy then they'll need something to do all day, someone to verbally spar with, like maybe the programmers. As long as they argue loudly progress can be made, but once the micromanagement boom falls, all progress will cease, in fact retrograde progress will begin regardless of who "wins".

[exclusiv]

I can explain that because it's an important data point that should be driving the positioning for the AGW crowd.

I personally think that AGW is overblown, the models and methodologies are suspect and I question human's impact on climate change. However, I can easily get behind renewables.

We shouldn't be dependent upon finite energy resources, many of which are largely controlled by dictatorships. Our investments in renewable clean energy can bring energy costs down for everyone, they're better for the environment (regardless of whether AGW is real, not debateable), and it could keep our money in our country instead of sending it overseas to non-Allied, terrorist supporting countries (hits pro-Trump, anti-AGW crowd). And oh, on the chance that the AGW crowd is right - we also saved humanity for the win! We've all aligned, some for different reasons.

This is the right positioning and the GW alarmists are shooting themselves in the foot because they aren't telling the right story that almost everyone can get behind.