Climate hoax promoter Mark Hertsgaard: You know what the consensus is? It's that "man-made climate change is real, happening now and extremely dangerous"

Mark Hertsgaard: Climate Cranks Gin Up the Right Wing Noise Machine

The right-wing media machine is a large part of the reason why denial of climate change persists in the United States long after the rest of the world has acknowledged the problem. Over the past few days, I've gotten a close-up look at how the machine works, because I've been its target.

Last Tuesday, February 15, I went to Capitol Hill on a mission: to confront the climate cranks who still refuse to accept what virtually every major scientific organization in the world, starting with our own National Academy of Sciences, has concluded: man-made climate change is real, happening now and extremely dangerous.

I also wanted to highlight a fact I have often marveled at during my twenty years of writing about climate change in books and for leading publications around the world, including Vanity Fair, Time, The Nation and most recently Politico. That fact is: virtually every major political party in the world -- except for the Republicans in this country -- accepts this mainstream scientific conclusion.
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I take the right wing media machine's attacks as a badge of honor and a sign that we drew blood. I suspect they're trying to shut down the discussion about climate science and the impacts on our kids because they know it's a losing conversation for them.
...We need to keep the focus on the science and our kids; that seems to scare the hell out of the cranks. These people are bullies, and the only way to deal with bullies is to stand up to them.