GOP will never acknowledge global warming is a threat to our planet. I listen to talk radio most of the day and into the night and the nay sayers are very adept at quoting big name scientist both in this country and in Canada to bolster their point of view. They are also very good at pointing to the current heavy snowfall in the northeast to prove their point. In their view, weather is simply undergoing periodic cyclic change which can be proven by past events as shown in tree rings. They even pooh-pooh the plight of the Kiribiri Islanders as "mass hysteria" brought on by the hype from environmentalists and climate scientists from certain institutions of higher learning. Naw....the climate deniers have cast their beliefs in concrete and nay-say scientific evidence. According to them, another Noah will rise again to save the animals.