Remember what Teddy Roosevelt did. Yes, he took on what he saw as the excesses in the economy, but he also stood against the excesses in politics. He didn't want to unleash a lot of nationalist, populistic reaction. He wanted to try to figure out how to get back into that balance that has served America so well over our entire nationhood.
What we have to do is go on the offensive. [The science on climate change] has been maligned and misinterpreted, and we need to fight back. . . [P]eople [need to] stop being moved by these talk show [hosts] and start looking for the facts themselves.