It happens at the end of every year.
Posted on 06/16/2015 10:02:24 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
In April 2009, as the political right was finding its voice in the tea party, South Carolina Republican Rep. Bob Inglis was making the case for a carbon tax. “I’m a conservative. I believe in accountability,” he said. “Global warming is not a matter of belief. It’s a matter of facts.” He added, “We don’t want to be a party of deniers.”
Most of his party disagreed. A year later, Inglis was trounced in a Republican primary, his staunchly conservative record proving insufficient to overcome this heretical deviation. On the surface, it may appear that little has changed in the intervening years. But cracks are appearing in the climate change deniers’ defenses. Today, the movement to seriously address global warming is gaining unlikely supporters, a potential preview of the tectonic shift to come.
Last month, six major oil and gas companies based in Europe, including BP and Royal Dutch Shell, wrote a letter officially endorsing an international price on carbon. “Climate change is a critical challenge for our world,” they declared. “The challenge is how to meet greater energy demand with less [carbon dioxide]. We stand ready to play our part.” In the short term, these companies stand to benefit from carbon pricing, which would shift demand away from coal. But even if their position is partially self-serving, it’s an important declaration, and one that deeply undercuts the climate change deniers’ arguments. Even oil companies, we can now say, believe climate change is real — and admit it’s something they are causing. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
In the June 8, 2010, primary election, Inglis finished second with 27 percent of the vote, well behind first-place finisher Gowdy's 39 percent. He was forced into a June 22 run-off election against Gowdy.[3] Although he had "racked up a reliably conservative record" during his six terms in the house,[4] Inglis had been criticized by his primary opponents for certain Congressional votes, including his support for the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (which earned him the nickname "Bailout Bob")[5] and his opposition to the Iraq War troop surge of 2007, and was portrayed as removed from the interests of the district.[3][6] Inglis had attacked Gowdy's conservatism and questioned his opponent's support for creating a costly lake in Union County, South Carolina.[3]
In the runoff, Gowdy defeated Inglis in a landslide, 71-29 percent.[7] Following his defeat in the Republican primary, Inglis criticized the Tea Party movement, which had supported his opponents' campaign, as well as the Republican Party for courting the movement, stating, "It's a dangerous strategy, to build conservatism on information and policies that are not credible."[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis
Of course vanden Heuvel does not mention science or any "global warming" facts. It's all about the politics.
Consider the fact that the author is probably the most liberal “journalist” in the media.
Vanden Heuvel is a communist agitarot and ex editor of The Nation, a far Left /Communist magazine.
What is she doing writing for the Post
It happens at the end of every year.
Wow. The Eco-Nazis routinely force companies to make sounds agreeing with their fascistic nonsense. Now they're pretending that government-coercion = Science.
Vanden Hateful has been a leftwing liar for decades. The fact that the ComPost published this crap from a editor at The Nation tells you all you need to know about their agenda.
The left conflates the expression “climate change” with “man-made climate change” for the same reason they confuse the distinction between “immigration” and “illegal immigration.”
the real problem for climate change is a dolt from Argentina pretending to speak the words coming from God proclaiming climate change is mankind’s problem
I consider the phrase “Climate Change Denier” a microagression and makes me want to flee to a ‘Safe Space’ place.
In other news, a gigantic snow pile in South Boston left over from last winters record snowfall is still melting.
http://www.whdh.com/story/29194928/snow-pile-in-south-boston-packed-with-dirt-and-trash
“Vanden Heuvel is a communist agitarot and ex editor of The Nation, a far Left /Communist magazine.”
Glad to see Latrina is still on her Marxist stool.
The arguments have not been undercut by corporations signing on.
Facts are funny like that.
The climate has been changing since long before man. The greatest climate change denier is the climate itself.
By the way We were never deniers of Climate Change.. We Doubted Global Warming!!! The Climate changes all the time!!
Just because a few big oil companies decided to turn sellout to play in a phony carbon trading market does not mean that our position is cracking.
Big Oil could care less about carbon taxes, they’ll just pass it on in higher prices. Large multinational corporations are part of the crony capitalist cabal in cahoots with Big Government.
What I meant to say is that the greatest "man made" climate change denier is the climate itself.
Perfectly stated, thank you.
If the Pope says that Climate Change is man-made then he has rendered himself fallible. Time to look for a new pope if you believe that he his is the pontiff, Otherwise his is the vicar for Gaia, Tyrant Sheldon Whitehouse or Algore on the Earth.
A lie is a lie is a lie.
Popular opinion doesn't change that fact that AGW is a pure scam. It exists to make the populace poor and dependent on the government.
it's amazing how shrill the Left is and how many shills they have to try and make everyone believe their horrific fairy story. Not that the consequences of Global Warming/Climate Change/Disruptification would be horrific. The draconian laws to steal our freedoms and money are.
“URGENT!!! Give up everything you have and your children's future just in case we are able to lower the temperature 1/1,000,000,000th of a degree over the next 100 years!”
~Your friendly power hungry government and lunatic Leftists that want to be some kind of half-baked heroes who “save the planet” in a video gamer sort of way.
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil”
~Isaiah 5:20
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