If You Think Climate Change Is A "Belief", I Believe You Are Full Of Shit

• A recent federal report confirms that world-wide climate change is a fact, is happening right now, and results from man-made elevations in levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

• Another federal military report points out that beyond the obvious tragedies of flooding, famine, drought and population displacement, these climate-change disasters pose increasing global security risks.

• A recent international governmental panel cited "overwhelming evidence of global warming" and said "nobody on the planet will be untouched."

Yet there's still moronic stuff like this:

Fox News pundit Charles Krauthammer compared "belief" in climate change to belief in rain dances, superstition and religious myth.  He claimed the climate change science was "unconvincing" and said he was "not impressed by [scientific] consensus."

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla), a supposed presidential hopeful, said a couple days ago, "I do not believe that human activity is causing these drastic changes to our climate."

A new Gallup poll found that one in four Americans are "solidly skeptical of global warming" and don't believe it to be a scientific fact.

That was enough for John Oliver of HBO's Last Week Tonight.  His comment on such beliefs and opinion polls:

"Who gives a shit?  You don't need people's opinion on a fact.  You might as well have a poll asking, 'Which number is bigger, 15 or 5?', or 'Do owls exist?', or 'Are there hats?'

"The debate on climate change ought not to be whether or not it exists, it's what we should do about it!  There's a mountain of research on this topic."

Most experts agree that 15 is, in fact, bigger than 5.  :)