If history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce, maybe we’ll live to see the funny version. This one is the tragedy.

Here is an example of those “profoundly” respected voices, analyzing the stakes of ruining climate stability for ourselves and every succeeding generation: “Everybody who hates Trump wants him to stay in Paris. Everybody who respects him, trusts him, voted for him, wishes for him to succeed wants him to pull out.” This “profound” analysis of the greatest threat humanity faces comes from noted climate expert Grover Norquist.

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And so it goes, as it has gone and will continue to go. Climate is just a big political debate, with profoundly respectable voices on “both sides.”

No, no and no. There is only one side that deserves any respect at this this point — the side that has been documented from here to eternity by scientists who are actually trained in this field of inquiry, and the people who are desperately trying to get that information to policymakers in time, despite the media’s falling for every diversion dragged across its path. The other “side” is nothing more than craven, blind cynicism and greed.

And for all intents and purposes, the craven and the greedy have already won. Would you like to see an actual piece of good reporting on that? Here you go. Whether or not Trump “stays in” or “pulls out,” his administration has already abandoned science, abandoned reason, abandoned responsibility and abandoned you and all your descendants to needless disaster.