Climate of Denial

*I wonder if Al Gore will ever realize that, by cornering the factual truth in this issue, he made it desperately necessary for his opponents to lie. He made them retreat into Fantasyland, and that's where they made their stand.

*Rather than admit that he's telling the truth, they'd kill themselves. Seriously. They'd hire lions, step into a a Colosseum, and have themselves martyred rather than admit it.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/climate-of-denial-20110622

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"They are financing pseudoscientists whose job is to manufacture doubt about what is true and what is false; buying elected officials wholesale with bribes that the politicians themselves have made "legal" and can now be made in secret; spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year on misleading advertisements in the mass media; hiring four anti-climate lobbyists for every member of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives...."

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