Just a quick note from the library. While updating my research on adaptation planning and environmental policy, I found the same cast of characters that I thought to have disappeared upon the legit think tanks' pronouncement that the climate change science debate was over (in 2006). AEI (American Enterprise Institute), Heritage Foundation, and other associated right-wing spouts have again polluted the opinion sections of the peer-reviewed literature with their discredited shit. I have little hope that my (Republican) representatives and Senators know enough to completely ignore these purely political hack-jobs as they should. Really I could not believe the sceptics are b-a-a-a-c-k, obviously still funded somehow.
This appearance on the heels of the Senate bill (see previous post) finally clued me in to why we saw the upsurge of such stuff in 2003 (McCain-Lieberman bill appeared, and was defeated) and earlier peaks in deliberate disinformation meant to muddy the public discourse. Each disinformation peak corresponded to some meaningful international or U. S. political action to combat climate change, even as weak as these have been and continue to be. Please, if you hear any contrarian viewpoints, even those offered in jest, please stop laughing and debunk them from the unequivocal literature. For mother nature's sake, do NOT go off repeating them!
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