Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Check Out the New Crop of GOP Climate Change Deniers
Just as people once denied the world is round, there are still people who either flat out deny the existence of climate change, or deny that it is human induced. Unfortunately, many Republican congressional and gubernatorial candidates are climate change deniers. Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Deirdre Murphy warns that climate change denial is just the beginning for what she calls "the new crop of extremist Republican Senate candidates."

Check out the quotes by the 2010 crop of Grand Ole Party candidates...
New York: Gillibrand challengers debate, one calls her ‘attractive’ - Capitol Confidential
...only DioGuardi said he believed humans are responsible for global warming
Cameron 'ran scared' from climate debate (OneNewsNow.com)
...Morano thinks Cameron's arrogance caught up with him.

"Cameron was given the standard Al Gore talking points, and he was repeating them. He was going on forums, and he was talking to reporters...all over the country, and no one [was] challenging him," the global warming skeptic notes. "So he's thinking, 'Wow, these talking points are really working. I understand the science; I've got it down. I'm going to start challenging people.'"

Marc Morano (GOP EPW)But once people began accepting his challenges, Morano says the environmentalists "wisely" advised the director to back out of them because he did not know what he was getting himself into. "So James Cameron ran scared," states the Climate Depot spokesman.
Interview: David Shukman, reporter : Scotsman.com
and a US spin doctor, he realised afresh how politically important the findings are. As part of the BBC coverage of Al Gore's Live Earth show, he had the unpopular job of explaining - between Razorlight and Genesis - that while greenhouse gases do affect climate change, the scale of that effect is simply not yet known.

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