“Imagine you were about to walk into this building, and 97 percent of structural engineers said ‘Don’t go in, it’s about to fall down!’ Would you go in?” asked J. Marshall Sheperd during a recent panel discussion about climatic change held at Brenau’s Downtown Center. Sheperd is the past president of the American Meteorological Society and director of the Atmospheric Sciences Program at the University of Georgia. Together with Bill Coates Jr., pastor of First Baptist Church in Gainesville, and James W. Porter, professor of ecology at UGA, Sheperd was making it very clear that uncertainty about whether climatic change is happening or not has ended.