Daily Kos: Cuccinelli goes teabagging

If your child is sick and you want to check for fever, you use a thermometer. You don't care what Rush Limbaugh says, or what Al Gore says, you care what that thermometer says. And if you want to be super careful, you might use more than one thermometer, or different kinds of thermometers, just in case that kid is dipping it in hot chocolate.

That's what two climatologists did when they wanted to check on the earth's past temperature. Just to be safe they used several different kinds of thermometers. Doesn't matter what Rush says, doesn't matter what Gore says, all that matters is what those thermometers say. And guess what they said? The earth has a fever, that fever is rising, and it's approaching delirium.

The work was so exquisitely done, and it's been so well supported by independent studies, that in any other nation the researchers involved would be up for major recognition. But not in teabagger America, where corporate rent-boys bought and paid for by fossil fuel johns drop to their knees on command to kiss some Koch. Which brings us to the latest gigolo, Ken Cuccineli...