Getting Snowed →
It’s 2010. Are conservatives still making fun of An Inconvenient Truth? Even though it came out more than three years ago and isn’t even his most recent book on global warming? Or his second most recent book on global warming? Obviously, the answer is yes. And the culprits aren’t just the Sean Hannitys and Sarah Palins, whose jobs entail a certain amount of clownery. This is the level of discourse we have at the top of our legislative branch. When you’re James Inhofe, why engage in a reasonable debate when you can just have your grandkids build an igloo and stick Al Gore’s name on top of it? One thing should be clear throughout this silly display: Senators and news anchors who repeatedly confuse and conflate short-term weather fluctuations with long-term climate change are not instances of scientific education gone awry. More likely, such behavior may really be an indication of a problem so deep-seated that no amount of scientific education can fix it. Inhofe’s and Hannity’s willingness to suggest that a February snowstorm negates the record high temperatures of the last decade does not mean they are ignorant or misinformed. It means they are liars. (via Seed)
