FOTF Denies Climate Change

Summertime In NYC

It's mid-June and I'm blogging in a sweater.

Koch Brothers-Backed House GOP Works To Abolish EPA Rules On Climate Change

The House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is now chaired and dominated by Republicans funded by the oil industry Koch Brothers, is working to abolish EPA rules designed to reduce climate change. (More billions for the Kochs!) Despite daylong expert scientific testimony, GOP committee members repeatedly denounced the evidence and declared that Democrats want to destroy the nation's energy supply. That prompted Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) to deliver one of the best responses you'll like hear in something as normally dry-as-dust as an energy meeting.

Yeah, I had to look up Schrödinger's Cat too. Shortly after Markey's speech, the bill was advanced to the full House by a voice vote.

What Climate Change?

Gothamist notes that a whole lot of weather records were broken in NYC last year. We had two of the five worst blizzards in city history, saw the warmest spring and hottest summer ever, and even got slammed by a couple of tornadoes. What climate change?

Incoming House GOP Head Of Climate Change Committee Paid By Big Oil Not To Do Anything About Climage Change

GOP Rep. John Shimkus: Don't Worry, God Will Take Care Of Global Warming

And this guy wants to be the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. How terrifying is that?

Samoan Clerics: Homosexuals Are Causing Global Climate Change

Clerics of an unnamed Christian denomination informed attendees at a University of the South Pacific conference on climate change in Samoa that homosexuals are responsible for global warming.

Academics were apparently thrown off their consideration of "Arts in the Age of Global Warming" and "Ecology in Poetry / Poetry in Ecology" by reports of Church Ministers who maintained that climate change in Samoa are clearly attributable to to homosexuals. The revelation prompted one attendee USP student, Shaiza Janif, to opine: "We need to educate our ministers and not turn this into an agenda." Details of exactly how the ministers think homosexuals are pumping more CO2 into the atmosphere, thereby trapping heat around the planet, driving up the average temperature and causing massive economic and environmental dislocation are scant.

Tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and now the melting of the polar ice caps. We are truly a fearsomely fabulous force. Points to the UK's Register for their headline: Samoan Clerics Finger Homosexuals Over Global Warming.