How do we know this?

Because no one mentioned a thing about it during last night’s debate!

A few months ago, I would have expected presidential debates to have included climate change pretty much in every iteration. It doesn’t matter if the overarching subject matter is national security, the economy, or any other topic; climate change figures importantly in every aspect of American national policy. But, in the intervening time, we’ve had the Paris agreement, we’ve had a general acknowledgement that climate change is real by a growing number of former skeptics, and recently, even Donald “It’s a Chinese Hoax” Trump told us that he never said it was a Chinese hoax.

So, it’s over! No need to discuss the most important issue of our times, even after the floodwaters caused by a devastating global warming enhanced hurricane are still receding in the American southeast, and bodies are still being found in the rubble in Haiti. Apparently, everyone, including Anderson Cooper (who did a TV special on how important climate change is a few years go) and the others at the debate, are have boarded the cliamte change train and are ready to move forward!

I’m so glad that people have finally come to their senses.

For more on climate change at last night’s debate, see: #KenBone becomes famous — and not for asking a non-#climate question fcl

• Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us by Maggie Koerth-Baker
• Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand by Haydn Washington and John Cook
• Deep Water: As Polar Ice Melts, Scientists Debate How High Our Oceans Will Rise (Kindle Single) by Daniel Grossman, TEDx Books (Kindle Single)
• Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America by Shawn Lawrence Otto
• Rising Sea Levels: An Introduction to Cause and Impact by Hunt Janin and Scott Mandia
• The Aviator (The Burning World), a novel by Gareth Renowden
• The Debunking Handbook by John Cook, Stephan Lewandowsky
• The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines by Michael Mann
• The Inquisition of Climate Science by James Lawrence Powell
• The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science- and Reality by Chris Mooney
• The Scientific Guide to Global Warming Skepticism John Cook
• Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum

Any other suggestions?