text: There are four main parts of the issue to consider. First, climate change is the central obsession of the environmental left and its sock puppets in the Democratic Party in Congress. Churchill once defined a fanatic as someone who can't change their mind and won't change the subject. The issue of climate change is mired in monomania both as to the nature of the problem and the range of possible responses to climate change, of any dimension, for whatever cause. For the climate fanatics, change is always catastrophic, immediate, caused solely by humans, and can only be addressed by hugeand hugely expensivereductions in fossil fuel energy use.