SNOW was the subject of a discussion on climate change in the US Senate last February; it was nothing serious. To help make his case that people cannot be influencing the climate, Jim Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma, cited archaeology and scripture. Then he produced a snowball, and said, “I ask the chair, do you know what this is? It’s a snowball, just from outside here. It’s very, very cold out.” Glorying in his idiocy, Mr Inhofe, who was chairman of an important environmental committee at the time, then tossed the snowball at his Republican colleague.
With Washington currently under two feet of snow, this episode is worth remembering for two reasons. First, because the ignorance, wilful or otherwise, many Republicans display on global warming is not dissipating. The frontrunner for the GOP nomination, Donald Trump, claims global warming is a conspiracy cooked up by the Chinese to destroy American industry. His closest challenger, Ted Cruz, a senator from Texas, also says it is a hoax , but reckons the “liberal left” is to blame. Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon and former front-runner, had this to say: “There is no overwhelming science that the things...Continue reading
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