Rutland Herald: In a lecture at Middlebury College earlier this week, journalist David Goodman noted that on some factual questions there is little dispute. Everyone knows that the New York Jets defeated the New England Patriots on Sunday. Why is it that on the question of climate change, about which the facts are piling up all around us, as many as half of Americans don`t believe it is a serious problem? The reasons for popular resistance to the reality of climate change are many, but that …