Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Stephan: The Republican climate change deniers at work again. I got a note from a reader today telling me that there was no difference between the Democrats and the Republicans. I will agree that both parties and, indeed, our entire political system is profoundly corrupted and in many ways nothing but a system of legalized bribery.
But anyone who thinks the Democrats and Republicans are equivalent and interchangeable is practicing willful ignorance on a grand scale, and I have no use for fact-free polemics.
At first look, the proposal is as dull, bureaucratic and routine as an agency request to Congress can be.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wanted to reshuffle its offices to establish a National Climate Service akin to the agency’s National Weather Service. It asked for no new funding to do so.
But in a political climate where talk of the earthly kind of climate can be radioactive, the answer in last week’s budget deal was ‘no.
