President Obama used his final State of the Union address Tuesday night to call out climate change deniers as an increasingly lonely group.
“Look, if anybody still wants to dispute the science around climate change, have at it,” he said Tuesday night. “You’ll be pretty lonely.”
Many scientists blame the increase in manmade greenhouse gas emissions for causing the Earth’s climate to warm, resulting in more severe weather, droughts and floods.
“But even if the planet wasn’t at stake; even if 2014 wasn’t the warmest year on record — until 2015 turned out even hotter — why would we want to pass up the chance for American businesses to produce and sell the energy of the future?” he asked.
The perch of the climate denier is lonely because “you’ll be debating our military, most of America’s business leaders, the majority of the American people, almost the entire scientific community, and 200 nations around the world who agree it’s a problem and intend to solve it,” Obama said.
Republicans argue that the most recent polling show that climate change isn’t a top issue for the U.S. consumer, despite the nearly 200 nations Obama described and increased focus by businesses.
