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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 03:13 PM Jul 2012

Global Warming Denier George Will Blames Historic Heat Wave On ‘One Word: Summer’

Washington Post columnist George Will spent much of 2009 denying the overwhelming scientific consensus that man-made global climate change is a real and dangerous phenomenon, sometimes publishing objectively false information.


At one point, for example, Will claimed that “according to the University of Illinois’ Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.” The Arctic Climate Research Center almost immediately responded will real data contradicting Will’s claim, adding “[w]e do not know where George Will is getting his information.”


On ABC News’ This Week this morning, Will resumed his crusade against science, this time trying to blame the record heat wave spreading across America on an ordinary summer:

WILL: How do we explain the heat? One word: summer. I grew up in central Illinois in a house that had air conditioning. What is so unusual about this? . . . We’re having some hot weather. Get over it.



http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/07/08/512592/global-warming-denier-george-will-blames-historic-heat-wave-on-one-word-summer/


No wonder I'm watching Dexter right now and not
the morning news lie crap.

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Global Warming Denier George Will Blames Historic Heat Wave On ‘One Word: Summer’ (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Jul 2012 OP
George Will, fluff boy extraordinarie for Big Oil, Big Coal and Complacent Received Beltway "Wisdom" hatrack Jul 2012 #1

hatrack

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1. George Will, fluff boy extraordinarie for Big Oil, Big Coal and Complacent Received Beltway "Wisdom"
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 03:43 PM
Jul 2012

Apparently still drawing breath.

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