By Ted Leach and Chuck Henderson

Friday, May 9, 2008 

After science first confirmed the dangers of climate change, naysayers told the public that the Earth wasn’t warming. When the evidence became overwhelming, skeptics and deniers admitted it was getting hotter, but denied that human activity was to blame.

Now that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has concluded that humans — not sunspots, not 90,000-year orbital cycles — are the cause of recent climate change, skeptics have beaten a new retreat. The newest excuse for inaction: Climate change can’t be solved. The critics went straight from “it’s not happening” to “we can’t stop it; and even if we could, it will cost too much.”

The pessimists are wrong. The truth is we can win this fight — and we can win it while growing the economy, reducing consumer energy costs, bringing more high-paying jobs to New Hampshire’s North Country and protecting our four-season recreation industry.

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