I wonder if the voters know all the health travesties put on them by our conservative leaders. Who is going to call these guys out?
Article exposes the false experts called into hearings:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/opinion/04krugman.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
"But it’s worth stepping back for a moment and thinking not just about the science here, but about the morality.
For years now, large numbers of prominent scientists have been warning, with increasing urgency, that if we continue with business as usual, the results will be very bad, perhaps catastrophic. They could be wrong. But if you’re going to assert that they are in fact wrong, you have a moral responsibility to approach the topic with high seriousness and an open mind. After all, if the scientists are right, you’ll be doing a great deal of damage.
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But it’s terrifying to realize that this kind of cynical careerism — for that’s what it is — has probably ensured that we won’t do anything about climate change until catastrophe is already upon us."
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