Really, Jan? Republicans do not believe that climate is changing?

Recently I took my Science Topics class to listen to 9th Congressional District Representative Jan Schakowsky who spoke at Niles North High School in Skokie, IL.  Although in agreement with her campaign platform and siding with her on most issues, I wanted to ask Jan an important question.  "Why have climate change bills stalled in Congress?"  I was hoping that she could provide the inside scoop since she spends her days and sometimes nights there hashing things out behind the scenes of America.  However her succinct response was "Republicans do not believe that climate is changing."  Really, Jan?  You have got to be kidding me.  Saying that someone does not believe that climate is changing in 2010 is just as silly as saying that Republicans still believe in a geocentric solar system.  How much data do we need to provide to the Republicans to convince them that climate is changing.  Even my Science Topics students can interpret the climate data presented on graphs, and math just may be one of their weakest subjects.  Facts are facts and just because the Sun appears to be revolving around the earth, no one seems to disagree that the Sun is at the center of our solar system.  Unless hundreds of scientists have conspired to create data that intimates climate change, the fact that carbon dioxide is currently higher than it has ever been on our planet is undeniably clear.  Since temperature and carbon dioxide levels are directly proportional and always have been on our planet, I think we have a problem.  The biggest problem is that Democrats like Jan can even contemplate accepting that "Republicans do not believe that climate is changing."  Climate change bills will never pass with complacent Democrats too lazy to challenge the ignorant and untruthful excuses of the Republicans.  Why is the United States the only developed nation who is not a member of the Kyoto Protocol designed to combat global warming and which was ratified by over one hundred and thirty five countries?  Please don't blame it on the Republicans, Jan.  Something is seriously wrong, and its worse than the climate.