• Skeptics claimed that the Al Gore meeting was a coincidence and that he merely happened to be in the same room as Donald Trump.

• Skeptics asserted that Al Gore just happens all the time.

• But new, more powerful storms of cognitive dissonance are occurring on both sides of the issue simultaneously.

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• Is it a sea change? Or just misleading atmospherics?

• One thing is certain: A cold front of climate deniers has settled in at the Trump administration and will continue to spew gratuitous carbon dioxide into the debate.

• The strongest claim from the skeptics was that Donald Trump’s opinions change all the time, unrelated to any actual facts, and that we should just adapt to this, rather than take any steps to try to prevent it.