If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.
Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.
It's not merely that conservatives are better at selling their product, or that they happen to have an easier-and undoubtedly simpler-ideological product to sell. It's that they know what they are selling. Liberals in general and Obama in particular cannot say the same.

