Are Ceiling Fans the New WMDs?
By Carl Pope*
huffingtonpost.com
<<...As we enter what will, most likely, be the hottest summer in human history, former global-warming skeptics like Sir David Attenborough and The New Republic's Gregg Easterbrook have freely admitted that the argument is over. The latest defector from the deep-denial faction is Republican Party pollster, Frank Luntz, the spinmeister who, back in 2002, advised the White House that, as long as it pretended that the science on global warming was unresolved, it could forestall public demands for action.
Luntz has since admitted to the BBC that it's now obvious that global warming is real and that people are causing it. But, when asked about the Bush Administration's continued denials, he shrugs his shoulders and says, "I've got nothing to do with it now."...>>
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*Carl Pope was appointed Executive Director of the Sierra Club in 1992. A veteran leader in the environmental movement, Mr. Pope has been with the Sierra Club for nearly thirty years.
Mr. Pope is co-author -- along with Paul Rauber -- of Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress, which the New York Review of Books called "a splendidly fierce book."
He currently maintains a weblog called "Taking the Initiative" that regularly discusses environmental and political issues. |
