The politicians who deny that global warming is a problem used to be the biggest obstacle to a solution. They’re not anymore. They have lost the argument.
When former Vice President Al Gore came back to Capitol Hill to testify last week, a few of the global-warming holdouts in Congress confronted him with their usual tactics. They took the actual uncertainties over climate change — how fast seas and temperatures will rise, how serious the effects will be — and tried to make them sound like uncertainty over whether human beings were making the planet hotter. But the skeptics didn’t get very far. In the last few months, this debate has shifted incredibly quickly.
As Representative Ed Whitfield, a Kentucky Republican (lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union: 90 out of 100), told Mr. Gore, “I think everyone recognizes — as you have said and the scientific community agrees — that there is global warming caused by human activity.”
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