I feel sorry for the "usual" opinion writers. Sid has so completely stolen the show from them by being so outlandish that no one is even provoked by them any more.
Now, Eugene attempts the outlandish here, with claims against unnamed "deniers" over stuff that is easily true; and straw man claims to how the rest of the world knows and "understands", which is even more ridiculous. 
It's sometimes hard to live in a country full of so many saps.
The issue should not be the unproductive ridicule of the few, for which it seems "our" opinion writers simply can't let go of, but, it might be the productive thoughts on what to do about it. What to do about the biggest burner of coal by a factor of 5, the biggest owner of combustion vehicles (they edged us in 2016), the fastest producer of combustion vehicles by a factor of 3, the biggest steel producer by a factor of 12, the "..." list goes on, and on. Does anyone "get it"?
"They" (China), say "they understand". And, we can do nothing about it.