Monday, November 01, 2010

Climate hawks bedwetters make global warming denial into campaign issue | Grist
The 2010 campaign season has seen a horde of climate zombies shuffling towards Washington, D.C. -- hundreds of Republican candidates who question the threat of greenhouse pollution as a scientific conspiracy or hoax. A few Democrats have fought back against the Tea Party anti-science wave, making the argument that people who choose oil propaganda over scientific fact might not be the best leaders for this nation. Surveying the races, the Wonk Room has found climate hawks taking a stand for sanity against the climate zombies from coast to coast, including Gov. Deval Patrick (D-Mass.), Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), and Rep. Dan Maffei (D-N.Y.), taking it to their challengers in debates, press conferences, and campaign ads:

1 comment:

Mrs. EntryReqrd said...

Tom, the followers of the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming movement are indeed "climate bed wetters" and not climate hawks as you clearly point out.

The leaders of the CAGW movement are however not hawks nor bed wetters but jackals or hyenas that prey enmasse on the the weak and are brought to a frenzy when the smell of money or political influence is waft into the air.