It was bound to happen, human nature being what it is. The Washington Post notes that amid the signs of extreme weather everywhere and scientific evidence piling up, that the climate change deniers in Washington, DC are melting away faster than ice on a too hot spring day in South Florida.
That's a bit of an exaggeration, in the context of time. The recent decades we lost by being overcome by the Fox News juggernaut and other radical right-wing blowhards have been decisive.
The questions being asked at the highest levels of the GOP have to do with creating wriggle-room for the deniers. The best they have come up with is: "I'm not a scientist." That's the Gov. Rick Scott line as it is for former Florida governor and presidential aspirant Jeb Bush.
The answer to that nonsense is if you have a sharp pain in the side of your chest near where your heart is, you don't have to be a doctor to make up your mind to see one immediately. And you don't have to go to medical school before agreeing with their opinion or getting a second opinion leading to surgery to save your life.
Leaders of the radical right figure that Americans are too dumb to understand that. Based on their evidence, ie. that voters can be easily manipulated, you can see their point about the average intelligence of the American voter.
Moreover, there has been no inclination by the American voter to hold the radical right accountable at the polls. That could change, once all the groundwater in California has been mined by Big Agriculture and suddenly the price for vegetables and meat doubles and triples in the grocery stores.
If the US Chamber of Commerce and, in Florida, the Associated Industries of Jack-Asses has anything to say about it, there will be no blame assessed and everyone who could have done something about climate change will be forgiven for their past denials. Isn't that what a Republican Jesus would do?
There is no denying it: climate change deniers are in retreat. Voters should be chasing them with proverbial axes.
There is no denying it: Climate-change deniers are in retreat.
Washington Post, April 6, 2015 by Dana Milbank
What began as a subtle shift away from the claim that man-made global warming is not a threat to the planet has lately turned into a stampede. The latest attempt to deny denial comes from the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, a powerful group that pushes for states to pass laws that are often drafted by industry. As my Post colleagues Tom Hamburger, Joby Warrick and Chris Mooney report, ALEC is not only insisting that it doesn’t deny climate change — it’s threatening to sue those who suggest otherwise.
Read more »That's a bit of an exaggeration, in the context of time. The recent decades we lost by being overcome by the Fox News juggernaut and other radical right-wing blowhards have been decisive.
The questions being asked at the highest levels of the GOP have to do with creating wriggle-room for the deniers. The best they have come up with is: "I'm not a scientist." That's the Gov. Rick Scott line as it is for former Florida governor and presidential aspirant Jeb Bush.
The answer to that nonsense is if you have a sharp pain in the side of your chest near where your heart is, you don't have to be a doctor to make up your mind to see one immediately. And you don't have to go to medical school before agreeing with their opinion or getting a second opinion leading to surgery to save your life.
Leaders of the radical right figure that Americans are too dumb to understand that. Based on their evidence, ie. that voters can be easily manipulated, you can see their point about the average intelligence of the American voter.
Moreover, there has been no inclination by the American voter to hold the radical right accountable at the polls. That could change, once all the groundwater in California has been mined by Big Agriculture and suddenly the price for vegetables and meat doubles and triples in the grocery stores.
If the US Chamber of Commerce and, in Florida, the Associated Industries of Jack-Asses has anything to say about it, there will be no blame assessed and everyone who could have done something about climate change will be forgiven for their past denials. Isn't that what a Republican Jesus would do?
There is no denying it: climate change deniers are in retreat. Voters should be chasing them with proverbial axes.
There is no denying it: Climate-change deniers are in retreat.
Washington Post, April 6, 2015 by Dana Milbank
What began as a subtle shift away from the claim that man-made global warming is not a threat to the planet has lately turned into a stampede. The latest attempt to deny denial comes from the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, a powerful group that pushes for states to pass laws that are often drafted by industry. As my Post colleagues Tom Hamburger, Joby Warrick and Chris Mooney report, ALEC is not only insisting that it doesn’t deny climate change — it’s threatening to sue those who suggest otherwise.
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