Rick Santorum, Shaman of the Anti-Intellectuals

[marmar]

from Grist:



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“There is no such thing as global warming,” he told Glenn Beck on Fox News in June 2011.

“It’s just an excuse for more government control of your life and I’ve never been for any scheme or even accepted the junk science behind the whole narrative,” he told Rush Limbaugh that some month.

He went further at an event in Colorado on Feb. 6:

(Climate change is) an absolute travesty of scientific research that was motivated by those who, in my opinion, saw this as an opportunity to create a panic and a crisis for government to be able to step in and even more greatly control your life. … I for one never bought the hoax. I for one understand just from science that there are one hundred factors that influence the climate. To suggest that one minor factor of which man’s contribution is a minor factor in the minor factor is the determining ingredient in the sauce that affects the entire global warming and cooling is just absurd on its face. And yet we have politicians running to the ramparts — unfortunately politicians who happen to be running for the Republican nomination for president — who bought into man-made global warming and bought into cap-and-trade.

Note that Santorum doesn’t take the common GOP route of arguing that the science is inconclusive, or even just denying that climate change is actually happening. He takes the extreme Inhofe-ian view that the whole issue is fabricated for nefarious purposes. Science journalist Chris Mooney unpacks the implications: “In using the word ‘hoax,’ Santorum is apparently endorsing the global warming conspiracy theory … that a shady international group of scientists, NGOs, and leftwingers (especially European ones) are out to hamstring economies to advance a red, or at least pink, agenda of global governance. To do this, they need a covert issue to scare everyone into the kinds of changes they demand — hence the bugaboo of global warming.” .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://grist.org/election-2012/crazy-talk-rick-santorum-out-denies-the-climate-deniers-and-spins-eco-conspiracy-theories/

[rustydog]

1. Go Rick! Go man on dog!!! you want Government out of our lives!

Except if you happen to be a woman, take contraceptives and are gay...

[joeybee12]

2. My prayer: Dear God, please let the Repuke base be stupid enough

to nominate this jackass. Amen.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. You gotta admit, Santorum has a lot of spunk

Rich, frothy spunk.

[Brother Buzz]

5. I hate spunk.

[Scootaloo]

4. Must we denigrate shaman?

What'd they ever do to warrant a comparison to Shitfroth?