climate change deniers and skeptics in the country. >> respect the trout. i'm not a denier. i won't put it that way, but ipt skeptical as to how much control we have over it. >> reporter: climate change experts say the skeptics are denying what's unfolding before their very eyes, and climate change is a hard sell around here. >> i just don't think that climate change is real. >> reporter: is there anything a scientist can show you -- >> if he was 500 years old and told me it's changed, i probably would believe him. in my lifetime, i didn't sigh any change. >> reporter: you would have to hear from a 500 years old scientist? >> right. >> reporter: one scientist described it as the ground zero of climate change in the united states, where the coastline is disappearing, in large part according to scientific studies