"But the debate is settled.  Climate change is a fact[.]"  That's President Obama, in his most recent State of the Union address. This is an accurate statement of the climate change position.  It is the sentiment behind the condescension leftists think they are entitled to show toward skeptics, abusively labeled "deniers."  It was the attitude that "science guy" (meaning science entertainer) Bill Nye took toward Rep. Marsha Blackburn last Sunday. But like many leftist arguments, "climate change" is undefined.  It hovers in some kind of hyperspace above quotidian reality.  It never leaves a footprint that can be measured.  It isn't really an argument at all.  It is an attitude. But conservatives have to close with and defeat sentiments like this, because such statements can decide the fate of nations.  That is the role of polemics. Let's examine "climate change," the science of which is...(Read Full Post)