If climate change deniers had been in the public eye at the dawn of the space age, they would have told U.S. President John F. Kennedy that the moon “was made of cheese,” President Obama told University of California-Irvine graduates at a commencement ceremony last week. He criticized legislators who avoid any commitment on climate change to avoid being “run out of town by a radical fringe that thinks climate science is a liberal plot.”
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