How Inhofe turns balloon animals into ‘news’ | Grist

The professional deniers are at it again. Every chance they get, the people who are paid to spread doubt and confusion about climate change take some minor report or news event, fill it with hot air and twist it up like a balloon animal, then try to persuade everyone that it is alive and kicking -- that it "proves" that the planet isn't warming or human activities aren't the big reason why.

This time, the professional deniers are seizing on a report [PDF] from the Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general (IG).
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Step three. Inhofe's former communications director, Marc Morano, who runs a climate denier website, trumpets the false charges, conservative outlets pick up the drum beat, and mainstream news organizations like The Washington Post and Politico quote Inhofe's specious charges. Headlines announce that EPA "cut corners" and "needed more data before ruling." Other journalists begin weighing in on the "wide-reaching political implications."
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Eric Pooley is the deputy editor of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. He has also served as managing editor of Fortune, editor of Time Europe, and national editor, chief political correspondent, and White House correspondent for Time.

By the way, warmists love to describe climate realists as "seizing" on things, as an evil pirate might do!  They themselves love to "tackle" things, as a heroic football player might do!