Defending Climate Science Today‪.‬

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "DENIAL AIN'T just a river in Egypt" Mark Twain famously quipped. After almost a decade of delay in addressing the climate changes brought on by well-documented global warming, certain segments of American society are still in a state of denial, while others continue to have difficulty deciding what to do about steady changes in the earth's climate and the drastic effects they portend. This hesitation is abetted by the persistent efforts of climate-change contrarians to discredit climate science, despite an overwhelming body of evidence and peer-reviewed research that has identified anthropogenic greenhouse gases as the culprit. So how is it that a comparatively tiny community of trained scientists and a much larger community of nonscientists (unfortunately often identified as scientists) are able to persistently argue against the near-consensus, stating--incorrectly--that there's a substantial scientific controversy over the main issues, often dredging up long-discredited scientific arguments against climate science, and most recently attacking individual scientists and even science itself with arguments that reveal a pathetic misunderstanding of how it actually works?