Tim Pawlenty's Big Chill

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How the GOP presidential contender left a famed Arctic explorer in the cold on global warming.

— By Tim Murphy

When Will Steger was 15 years old, he and his brother piloted an old motorboat down the Mississippi River from Minnesota to New Orleans. At 17, he journeyed to the Arctic. At 41, he became the first man in history to travel unsupported to the North Pole and come back alive. He's traveled across Antarctica by sled (another first), hopped freights, and found his purpose at a mountain monastery.

But there's just one challenge the Arctic explorer couldn't complete: Keeping Tim Pawlenty honest on global warming.

After working closely with Steger for two years to combat climate change, the former Minnesota governor and current GOP presidential contender abruptly reversed himself on the issue in 2008, just as his name was being floated as a possible presidential running mate for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). Steger and Pawlenty haven't spoken since. Today, the politician who once cut a radio ad with Janet Napolitano calling for a federal cap on greenhouse gas emissions calls his work on climate change "stupid" and says the science is uncertain at best.

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http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/04/tim-pawlenty-will-steger-climate-change

[damntexdem]

1. The Repuke version of honesty -- replace former truth-telling with lies.

The good of the people is of no relevance.

[MineralMan]

2. Blowin' in the Wind.

Pawlenty, my friend,
Is blowin' in the wind.
Tim Pawlenty's blowin' in the wind.

[crickets]

3. Typical hypocrisy on Pawlenty's part.

Steger is much too kind.