With one exception, none of the Republicans running for the Senate — including the 20 or so with a serious chance of winning — accept the scientific consensus that humans are largely responsible for global warming.

The State that achieved new levels of ignorance in recent School Board revisions of curriculum to make sure that fact did not intrude into our kids’ education has bounded upwards on the monitor of how far it would go to protect residents from this modern age. Contesting universal science as grounds for public protections is a new low in use of the taxpayers’ dollarcents.

The Ocean Project, which consists of over one thousand aquariums, zoos, museums and conservation organizations, has designated June 8th “World Oceans Day.” This day, which earned official recognition from the United Nations General Assembly as the result of a resolution passed in December 2008, is a new celebrated day, and, as oil continues to gush at perhaps 100,000 barrels a day into the Gulf of Mexico (which connects to the Atlantic Ocean), this day carries even more significance.

Right now, the climate change doubters and deniers have the momentum. That will change over time, partly because it always does and partly because there are some facts over which there can be no doubt.

A British newspaper published an article on ties between denier groups and Exxon Mobil. Not exactly news.