on the far right, the luddites, whatever you call them, mayor bloomberg is one of the most practical politicians in the world. he's trying to retro fit the subways, thinking about the future and this water level thing, congressman. >> absolutely. this has real-world impacts on ordinary people. as the professor just said, the ocean is now much hotter. as a result, it's much higher, and the arctic is melting, and that's changing the jet stream which would have ordinarily put this storm off to sea. so as a result there is an extreme weather tax now. it's going to be billions and billions of dollars, and while mitt romney is concerned about the koch brothers, the average american right now is worried about global warming, worried about climate change, worried about the impact on their family. >> who are these people, professor, who fight you? who are these people that write op-ed pieces in "the wall street journal" with such assurance that this is all bogus science? who -- are they phonies?