Campaign trails: Raese signs pledge opposing climate change legislation - The Herald Dispatch

RAESE SIGNS PLEDGE: West Virginia U.S. Senate candidate John Raese recently signed Americans for Prosperity's "No Climate Tax Pledge." Raese joins over 625 lawmakers and candidates on the federal, state and local levels pledging to "oppose legislation relating to climate change that includes a net increase in government revenue."

Sunspots are behind climate change, Johnson says - JSOnline

A global warming skeptic, Johnson said extreme weather phenomena were better explained by sunspots than an overload of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, as many scientists believe.

"I absolutely do not believe in the science of man-caused climate change," Johnson said. "It's not proven by any stretch of the imagination."

Johnson, in an interview last month, described believers in manmade causes of climate change as "crazy" and the theory as "lunacy."

"It's far more likely that it's just sunspot activity or just something in the geologic eons of time," he said.
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It's extreme and irresponsible, Feingold told a Journal Sentinel reporter last month, to completely dismiss man's role.

"Do you notice the heat lately, my friend?"

Abbott's climate doubts

OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott has reiterated his scepticism about climate science, suggesting the world has stopped warming despite a new report by Australia's leading scientists showing statistical evidence that temperatures have been rising for decades.

Scientists Release Evidence That The World Is Warming

But has a confluence of extreme weather (fire, floods, heatwaves, mud slides) and dogged science - sober, clear consensus statements such as that released yesterday by the Australian Academy of Science - finally outmanoeuvred the engineers of denial? Are we at a tipping point in terms of public comprehension of the climate crisis? In terms of campaign denialism, is the jig up?