Conservatives and global warming

While I still maintain that global warming isn't and shouldn't be a political issue, the conservatives have done everything in their power to prove me wrong. The article below is pretty accurate in describing how conservatives "deal" with global warming.

Conservatives and global warming

I was recently made aware of the fact that the conservative National Review has a newish blog called Planet Gore. That's right: the only conservative blog I know of on global warming is primarily focused on mocking Al Gore -- who is, you'll recall, a big Fatty Fatterstein.

This pungent discovery got me pondering a post on how conservative opposition to global warming advocacy seems openly and bizarrely centered on hatred of liberals and environmentalists and Al Gore rather than, say, any substantive take on the issue itself. It is perhaps the clearest example of how modern conservatism has descended into pure ressentiment.

But -- and let this be a lesson to all you procrastinating pundits out there -- Jonathan Chait beat me to it

The psychology at work here is pretty clear: Your average conservative may not know anything about climate science, but conservatives do know they hate Al Gore. So, hold up Gore as a hate figure and conservatives will let that dictate their thinking on the issue.

The latest assault on the planet earth comes from a Republican Senator, James Inhofe (who thinks that the climate change is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people).

Inhofe vows to put brakes on Gore's 'Live Earth' concert at the Capitol

And finally, GOP attack on Gore makes no sense at all

So from what I've been seeing, the way the conservatives deal with global warming is to ignore the scientific findings, spend their negative energy attacking the messengers while doing absolutely nothing to reduce CO2.

Does that sound about right to you?