For some reason, they thought various Olympic athletes, e.g., a cross-country skier, knew more about "climate" than anyone else. Sen. Kennedy sets them straight.
Being in the environmental profession, I have been following this since the 1970's. There was a point in the late 1970's that a chunk of scientist who thought the climate was cooling so fast that an ice age was imminent.
50 years later, I have come to the conclusion of a few things in this area:
1. Mother Nature is infinitely more resilent than people give her credit for. Should we intentionally pollute? Of course, no. I have always supported good cost effective controls and practices that help preserve the environment. I am proud of my career, where many things I have enacted and sponsored at my facilities reduced emissions, waste, and treated water to the point fish were living in our effluent streams.
2. CLIMATE CHANGE ADVOCACY is a SCAM!!!!!- Look at the sponsors, and who are funding this operation. Socialist factions who are hell bent on 3rd world wealth redistribution. And destruction of heavy industries that historically have been or supported conservative values.
3. Notice that every aspect of the climate change scam reduces your freedoms and increases your reliance on a centralized government? Put that in the equation every time you hear news on this front.
4. Notice that in the 1990's that stealthly "Global Warming" became "Climate Change"? It became untenable that the data was more inconclusive than solid, taking account sample size, and the fact almost world wide that the reporting stations built mostly in the 1940's and 1950's were seeing heat sinks due to heat island effect of urban/suburban encroachment to those reporting stations that built back then, were in more rural settings.
5. One of my very favorite simple quips when encountering an enviro-whacko? Ask them how a thriving Viking settlement built a 1000 years ago survived and had a partially agrarian base?. And now that same area can only surive via modern means. Truth is, it was warmer in that time slot than now.