I have a new tool when talking to deniers. I just use one word. RISK! Risk as a concept is well educated in American society.. EX-Smokers reduce their RISK of lung cancer for every year they are an EX-Smoker... So, if we talk about climate change and RISK it becomes very easy to bridge the topics... such as the RISK of invasive species spreading into new areas. http://www.fs.fed.us/ccrc/topi...

This thread is going the same direction as our society at large. You can't become emotionally intelligent in a vacuum, but our technological capabilities are increasing the air gap between opposing views. i sit back and smile as News Junkies (substitute Opinionistas ) work to influence their audiences. They appear oblivious to the corner that their groups have congregated into. Shouting louder and feeding uniquely palatable crap to their followers is standard practice. The saddest thing is to see these Opinistas wonder aloud why the world can't see things in the same way. LMAO because it beats crying.