re: Global warming. Can it get any more pathetic?

"dems can use the Rs position to bludgeon them."

The Dems are almost gleeful in attacking "deniers," calling them names and so forth, and they have been quite effective in their PR battles. All is fair, I suppose. What I REALLY wish the GOP could do is pivot on this issue to where we really should be: how MUCH of warming is caused by man's CO2 emissions? how much can we do to counter it? what are the costs of doing so, both in $ and in other externalities? And of course, what avg. temperature are we actually trying to achieve? The answers to these questions are hazy to non-existent right now and I think it would be a policy disaster to spend untold billions to combat CO2 before scientists can answer these questions with some degree of certainty. "Doing nothing" or "proceeding cautiously" can make a lot of sense when you don't really know what you're doing; alas, this narrative is more difficult to communicate than showing a picutre of a cute polar bear on a melting piece of ice.