How long to you think before climate change deniers are completely marginalized?

Seriously. This is not a troll question or an academic exercise.

I think we can agree that there are no more true climate change skeptics, those who think they can prove it's not happening or that it doesn't matter. Sure there are unknowns but the fact that it is happening, that humans are causing it and that it will have a major impact is no longer in dispute.

Considering Mr. Obama's clear intent to push new policy, how long do you think it will be before we have a tipping point in public opinion? If you think we won't reach a tipping point soon or that it doesn't matter, how can any policy initiative succeed, let alone survive?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/22/science/earth/seeking-clues-about-sea-level-from-fossil-
beaches.html?partner=EXCITE&ei=5043

“At every point, as our knowledge increases,” Dr. Raymo said, “we’ve always discovered that the climate system is more sensitive than we thought it could be, not less.”
Let’s not forget who started this.

Environmentalists simply took to heart the results brought to us by scientific observation, as this new scientific data confirmed the obvious. The next step, as a concerned and moral citizen, was to spread this information and warn of the consequences of ignoring the early warning that science has given us.

They were immediately vilified, discredited and demonized in every way possible, from accused of being Communists bent on destroying the God Given Free Market American Way of Life to Dope Smoking Hippy Degenerate Atheist Anarchists whose real wish is to exterminate Gaia’s Human Infestation.

What have reactionary conservatives done for us in the last 50 years except for enable the delay of environmental and equal rights progress by an entire generation, enable the creation an entire media-propaganda industry to inculcate and foment ignorance and hatred, enable three massive capitol destroying bubbles in the last three decades enabling an
enabling another a massive transfer of wealth from the middle and least protected classes to the already wealthy top 2?that we having seen in nearly 100 years?
Now, I’m not concerned for my own welfare, as I realized decades ago that real progress in time to make a difference on major environmental problems is likely hopeless. What I fear is that when fanatical reactionaries come to realize that their time has come and gone that they will lash out, as they did to Lincoln, the Kennedy’s, MLK, Dr. Tiller and myriad others. Who knows what they are capable of.
Who is more dangerous, one who states his intentions clearly and stands for his convictions, as for example Mr. Obama did on Monday - or one who coats his lies with the sugary syrup of obfuscatory disingenuous pseudoscientific gobbledygook and presents them in the conciliatory language of reasoned debate, where really there is no honest debate and hasn’t been for decades.
The right does not now and has never wanted an honest debate. They would lose and they know it. And so they do stealth warfare that continues to this day.

So do I think that fanatical reactionaries should be marginalized? These people will never change, they cannot be reasoned with. The damage they have done is incalculable.

What do you think and how should we proceed? We’ll just have to wait for the tipping point?
I
guess we’ll know by the end of this presidential term.
It's healthy to have an honest debate.

A carbon tax redistributed to consumers would both accelerate the conversion to non-polluting sources (I'm all for nuclear, specifically the thorium molten salt reactor) and protect consumers and the economy from price shocks. And the tax would be self limiting as fossil fuel use diminished over time.

The problem with regulatory schemes is not that they are inherently wrong, but that they are gamed.
We don't need to starve the beast, that only enables the corporatists through privatization. We need to fix the government and eliminate corruption by abolishing unlimited contributions and the entire revolving door lobby industry, and establish total public funding of truly free, fair and open elections.

What we have now in the US may be the least worst in the world, but it is still a sham run by corporate interests.

Reactionary conservatives and anti-environmentalists are one in the same. Climate change may be the number one threat to the our world, but it is just one symptom of a larger problem.