President Barack Obama hammered the “lonely” conservatives who continue to deny the scientific consensus on climate change during Tuesday’s State of the Union address.
“If anybody still wants to dispute the science around climate change, have at it,” Obama said. “You will be pretty lonely, because he will be debating our military, most of America’s is this leaders, the majority of the entire scientific community, and 200 nations around the world who agree it is a problem, and intend to solve it.”
Obama also compared the scientific innovation needed to address the challenges of climate change to the flood of research that fueled the space race in the 1960s.
“Sixty years ago when the Russians beat us into space, we did not deny Sputnik was up there,” he said, drawing laughs from the audience. “We did not argue about the science or shrink our research and development budget. We built a space program almost overnight, and 12 years later we were walking on the moon.”
