Every single Republican Senate hopeful is against climate change action

Science is our best method for figuring out reality. It provides us with a method to rigorously test our ideas to find out if they are right or wrong. We can discard bad ideas, keep good ones, and that way get ever-closer to being able to understand what the Universe is actually trying to tell us. Scientists are necessarily conservative when it comes to consensus. It takes years, decades, of testing ideas to build an agreement on what's what. At first, many will argue against it, but eventually, as evidence piles up, the scientists will come to terms with the new idea, and use it as the default position. When it comes to global warming, that consensus has been built. The vast majority -- and I do mean vast -- of climate scientists agree that the Earth is warming, and while evidence is still coming in, most of these scientists ...