Scientists Meet, Debate Climate Change

A new report set for release this Friday will detail the impact of global warming on the Earth. The report contains contributions from over 1,000 climate experts from around the world.

The report will not only detail the widely-known costs of global warming, but will also describe other costs such as the damage global warming will do to economies.

This will be an interesting opportunity to watch the miniscule-but-shrill contingent of global warming denialists circle their wagons and figure out what to do.

Do right-wing extremists care more about the economy than they do about maintaining their denial of global warming? It's an interesting question. If they care about economics, they will have to care about how vulnerable national and international economies are to ecological changes, and that would mean they'd be forced to admit the obvious — that global warming is a real and serious problem. But if they continue to deny the reality of climate change, then they do so at the expense of economics — which includes their own, personal wallets.
After all, one of the primary reasons denialists refuse to talk about the facts of global warming is because they believe responding to the issue will hurt the profits of corporations and economies.

The report will surely be interesting for many reasons. But the light it will shed on the shadowy, strange priorities of the head-in-the-sand global warming denialists will be revealing indeed.