Ack. Can poor Ken Buck make himself look any more weird to mainstream Colorado?
The Fort Collins Coloradoan reported that U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck continued with his flat-earther campaign strategy, referring to the overwhelming evidence and the global scientific community conclusion that human activity is heating up the planet.
In a public forum Buck lauded moon-howling Republican Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma for his stance on global warming. Buck said the senator "was the first person to stand up and say this global warming is the greatest hoax that has been perpetrated," the Coloradoan reported. "The evidence just keeps supporting his view, and more and more people's view, of what's going on."
No, it's not. The evidence that Buck and Inhofe say is crap comes from the Pentagon, NASA, Exxon Oil, MIT and, and, and. And the truth is, the picture looks consistently grimmer, not better.
Even Big Oil agrees that the human use of so much carbon fuel is driving global warming. HELLO? Big Oil. And Inhofe and Buck apparently now believe that Big Oil is in on a conspiracy with the United Nations and GreenPeace. And WHY does Inhofe believe that the whole world is conspiring to pull off a hoax about global warming? For grant money.
Ding dong. Nobody home, folks.
It seems Buck is falling back on the neo-con concept of telling any lie you wish and repeat as often as you can and sooner or later people will begin to believe it. But it's only because people want to believe it.
I would love to believe that I can go buy a giant SUV to haul all my pals to the slopes and back each weekend without giving a second thought to foreign-oil dependence, super-heating the planet and killing ourselves, or helping to launch cancer in those who live near the highways I motor on. It would be so much easier to just say, "Aaaah, screw it. It's just a hoax."
If it weren't for those damned, annoying facts.
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