With one exception, none of the Republicans running for the Senate — including the 20 or so with a serious chance of winning — accept the scientific consensus that humans are largely responsible for global warming.
The candidates are not simply rejecting solutions, like putting a price on carbon, though these, too, are demonized. They are re-running the strategy of denial perfected by Mr. Cheney a decade ago, repudiating years of peer-reviewed findings about global warming and creating an alternative reality in which climate change is a hoax or conspiracy. ...NYT
Funny. Back in the old days marijuana used to be called "tea." "Old days" meaning the youth of the average tea partyer. Maybe they weren't associating themselves with the the Boston Tea Party after all. Maybe that was just a little white lie. Maybe they're still smokers. Maybe they smoke quite a lot of "tea." Certainly that would explain their willingness to embrace the kind of battiness this global warming denial presents.
