Tom Toles creates some of the best climate change and political cartoons Iāve seen. Heās a Pullitzer-Prize winning cartoonist who works for the Washington Post. After the ā1,000,000th email [in a day] complaining that [heās] not fair to the Republicansā following a recent cartoon of his (above), Toles wrote the following (a great post on global warming denial and Republicans)
The LA Times and Washington Post arenāt the only major media outlets that are starting to tear into the Republican party and other global warming deniers for their absolute rejection of science. USA Today, which I think has really turned things around in recent years and has some of the best climate change coverage of any major newspaper company, had an excellent editorial on the matter recently, one that compares climate science deniers to ābirthersā (the folks who didnāt and maybe still donāt believe that Obama was born in the United States).
The science is absolutely clear, climate change is happening (at an unprecedented speed) and this is caused by humans. However, for a long time, Republicans remained the only major political party in the world to deny these facts and deny any need to act. Actually, the Bush administration and other top Republicans finally admitted to this for awhile until the false scandal (or misunderstood scandal) known as climategate, unprecedented funding for anti-science studies and claims, and horrendous coverage of these topics in the media. Republicans and even some Democrats, funded by massive fossil fuel industries only interested in making another buck, fought climate change legislation tooth and nail and even fought its existence. They looked to dismantle any environmental policies and government agencies, actually.
