AEI President Christopher DeMuth issued a letter Friday saying his group will continue to challenge orthodox thinking on climate change: "The effort to anathematize opposing views is the standard recourse of the ideologue; one of AEI's highest purposes, here as in many other contentious areas, is to ensure that such efforts to do not succeed."
Oh. You mean like the effort that was made to silence critics of Bush's WMD claims and the Iraq war that you wholeheartedly supported? Pot. Kettle. Black. You neocons are history. Get used to it.
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There's Tim Ball who is once again whining about how nobody listens to him. Well, is it any wonder when he begins his article with this?
Global Warming, as we think we know it, doesn't exist.
Nice trick with the semantics there: "as we think we know it".
Who is this collective "we" that he's referring to?
Ball belongs to the same collective as other global warming deniers with connections to big oil.
Next.
Via Think Progress we learn that according to a National Journal insider's poll only 13% of Republicans polled in congress believe in man-made global warming.
Moreover, the number of Republicans who believe in human-induced global warming has actually dropped since April 2006, when the number was 23 percent.
Somewhere, some lobbyists are toasting to that revelation.
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Apparently, crusty columnist George Will does believe in global warming but that doesn't stop him from smearing so-called 'Climate Cassandras' and saying this:
We do not know the extent to which human activity caused this.
That's right George. Personally, I blame it all on farting cows and, in that spirit, I think India should be targeted as a source of environmental terrorism for allowing all of those cattle to roam freely without regard for the smog they are causing in Toronto.
And we do not know whether warming is necessarily dangerous.
That may attract the surfer types George but they're not exactly your target audience, are they?
I think George would get along well with our prime minister who thinks the Kyoto protocol is a 'socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth-producing nations'.
Yes, let's all worship money. Who cares if the world goes to hell in an uncomfortably heated handbasket?
Meanwhile, in Canada's parliament on Monday:
Members of Parliament voted Monday in favour of a motion from Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion that reaffirms Canada's support for the Kyoto Protocol.
Members of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government followed party orders and voted unanimously against it, but 161 MPs voted in favour and 115 against the motion.
Dion's non-binding motion, which was introduced Feb. 1, demands the government "honour the principles and targets of the Kyoto Protocol in their entirety," and calls on the Tories to create and publish a credible plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
"Credible" being the key word. Their so-called Clean Air Act is a farce.
Whoops! I almost forgot these guys. Don't ask them where their funding comes from though. They don't like that.
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