It would be nice if we could have an honest debate about the issue of the environment for once, but those days are long gone, if they ever were here to begin with. For decades, the media has sensationalized apocalyptic predictions about the climate.

There's always a new ice age looming, or global warming. There never seems to be a consensus as to whether the earth is warming or cooling, so in recent decades, we've been conditioned to use the more ambiguous and comprehensive "climate change," which conveniently covers every possible weather calamity imaginable. Heat wave? Must be climate change. Cold front? It's gotta be climate change. Wildfires? Obviously, that's climate change, too. And, of course, climate change is blamed for pretty much every hurricane.