DrCrowTStarwars said:

You do know that some of these global warming people predicted that ...

While I don't anywhere near share frievous's level of despair, I am frustrated by our country's increasing dismissal of science. Yes, of course scientists always keep an open mind and never claim proof beyond a doubt. That is a hallmark of science (and what keeps it moving forward). But the flippancy by which people are willing to reject - not retain an appropriate level of doubt, but flat out reject - current scientific state-of-the-art, simply because some talking head gets political brownie points in so doing, is a big step backwards for western society. I honestly don't think this level of discourse would have happened 40 years ago, when popular respect for science got us to the moon and back.

I'm beginning to think the only reason we don't also hear phrases like "these general relativity people", or "these evolution people", or "these black hole people", is that those topics don't currently threaten a certain political constituent. But since our cars don't get us close enough to lightspeed to experience timeshifts personally, and a black hole isn't currently charging through our living room, it's probably only a matter of time before people poo-poo those too. After all, science is just another religion, or so we're told.