to rethink how they analyze other data-driven issues like climate change?  I'm not getting my hopes up.  But events like Hurricane Sandy show that there are other ways that reality can start to pierce the denialist bubble.  And as Democrats develop a new agenda for 2016, my guess is that climate change -- or at least a national renewable energy and energy efficiency policy -- will rise to the top.  At some point, reality prevails.  At least I hope it will.