I didn't realize that the denialists have been at work since the late 1980s, so I was a bit surprised to learn that a few of the lies I've recently heard are actually fairly old. For example, the idea that the Sun is responsible for global warming goes back to 1992 and the Marshall Institute. It doesn't matter that the idea has been debunked because after years of repetition, it becomes a background fact for many, especially Republican law makers. I also found this anecdote interesting:
Industry found a friend in Patrick Michaels, a climatologist at the University of Virginia who keeps a small farm where he raises prize-winning pumpkins and whose favorite weather, he once told a reporter, is "anything severe." Michaels had written several popular articles on climate change, including an op-ed in The Washington Post in 1998 warning of "apocalyptic environmentalism," which he called "the most popular new religion to come along since Marxism."
A few months ago, Michael Savage had a promo for his radio show that claimed global warming was "the religion of the atheists."
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