The "dumbing down" of Carly Fiorina - Joe Romm

Last year, Energy Secretary and Nobel laureate Steven Chu, who ran a major national laboratory in California, warned that if we keep on our current path of unrestricted greenhouse gas emissions, it could be devastating to California's climate: "You’re looking at a scenario where there’s no more agriculture in California."

No worries for Carly, though. She has a bigger concern than her state's future -- her own political future. She wanted an endorsement in her GOP primary contest from the leading anti-climate dis-informer in the Senate, James Inhofe, Boxer's bête noire on the Environment and Public Works Committee and a man once described by the Washington Post as “the last flat-earther.” When she won Inhofe's backing, Fiorina was asked whether she believes in global warming. Her reply: "I think we should have the courage to examine the science on an ongoing basis."