The Right-Wing Cooling Scam

GOP leader Michael Steele admits he knows nothing about climate change, confuses it with “weather” and yet talks about ‘global cooling’ to the public.

From ThinkProgress:

Earlier this year, Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele ridiculed the notion that the Earth is warming, arguing instead that the world is actually “cooling,” citing the supposed examples of Iceland and Greenland:

STEELE: We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I am using my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process. [???] Greenland, which is now covered in ice, it was once called Greenland for a reason, right? Iceland, which is now green. Oh I love this. Like we know what this planet is all about. How long have we been here? How long? Not very long.

“I’m embarrassed for the Republicans,” one Discover Magazine blogger wrote of Steele’s comments. Yesterday, a reporter from the local Fox Tampa affiliate asked Steele how he knows the Earth is cooling. “I don’t!” Steele exclaimed:

Q: Global warming, you say the earth is cooling. Michael how do you know for sure?

A: STEELE: I don’t! I don’t! But apparently neither does anybody else! Ok? I don’t. All i know is every morning I come on, I turn on channel 13 and I’ll see what the weather man tells me okay?

This is what Republican politicians do:  Make stuff up. Steele sounds particularly confused and nonsensical. (This is the GOP’s leader, along with entertainer Rush Limbaugh, another moron). I don’t expect everyone to know what climate change is, but the least that Republicans could do, if they don’t have a clue what something is, is shut up about it. At least don’t talk to the public about it like you know what it is and tell everyone the opposite of well-known scientific data is true.   That’s called a lie. The earth is not cooling; this has been debunked on many science websites and it’s a purely political claim that has no basis in fact. The last decade was the warmest in recorded history. That Republican politicians tell us deliberate lies about something as important as climate change and then joke about their  ignorance should make even Republicans reconsider supporting them.