AFP: Obama pointman dismisses climate change skeptics

"I don't think the climate (change) deniers represent anything like a majority or even a very large minority," Stern insisted to reporters in a suburban Virginia hotel at the conclusion of a Major Economies Forum focused on energy policy and climate change.
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Stern however insisted in the United States there is "a significant basis of support and belief among the public for the proposition that climate change and global warming are significant threats, and that action needs to be taken."

After quoting the famous saying in US politics that "everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts," Stern said: "people who want to look at the facts and pretend they're not there are not in the long run going to do us any good."