Obama Goes After ‘Lonely’ Climate Change Skeptics

President Obama went after climate change skeptics on Tuesday during his last State of the Union address.

Look, if anybody still wants to dispute the science around climate change, have at it. You’ll be pretty lonely, because you’ll be debating our military, most of America’s business leaders, the majority of the American people, almost the entire scientific community, and 200 nations around the world who agree it’s a problem and intend to solve it.

Obama continued:

Sixty years ago, when the Russians beat us into space, we didn’t deny Sputnik was up there. We didn’t argue about the science, or shrink our research and development budget. We built a space program almost overnight, and twelve years later, we were walking on the moon.

President Obama argued for more government investment in clean energy like wind power and solar.

Now we’ve got to accelerate the transition away from dirty energy. Rather than subsidize the past, we should invest in the future — especially in communities that rely on fossil fuels. That’s why I’m going to push to change the way we manage our oil and coal resources, so that they better reflect the costs they impose on taxpayers and our planet.

Obama also applauded the work that his administration has been able to accomplish, noting that, “we’ve cut our imports of foreign oil by nearly sixty percent and cut carbon pollution more than any other country on Earth.”