I am hereby comparing Rick Santorum and US Senator James Inhofe to lizards. I hope this reference to reptiles is not offensive to them, their families, nor their supporters. It’s not personal. It should be taken in good-fun. Feel free to compare
Using a global warming denier talking point that is completely backwards, GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry compared “climate skeptics” to Galileo recently. To anyone who knows anything about climate science or Galileo, Rick Perry was completely off on this analogy, and actually has it backwards.
Love this piece by Chris Mooney of Desmog Blog on Rick Perry’s ridiculous assumption that climate science deniers are like Galileo (I’ve written similar replies in the comments of our posts several times over the years), so reposting it in full here:
We’ve been featuring Mark Hertsgaard’s new book (which we’ll soon be giving away), HOT: Living Through the Next 50 Years on Earth, and activism on here lately (including his video interviews with infamous Senator Inhofe and oil lobbyists). Now, he’s got a new piece out in Politico that is clearly worth and so I thought
Our Sun is experiencing the most prolonged period of minimal sunspot activity in nearly a century. The puzzling absence of these spots, whose build-up commonly signals the occurrence of large solar storms and flares, has space scientists and solar physicists searching for explanations.
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