The Climate Zombies of the new GOP

grist.org — Meet the Climate Zombies. They're mindless. Their stupid is contagious. And if they win, humanity loses. A couple of weeks ago, the Wonk Room had a story: Every GOP N.H. Senate candidate is a global warming denier. At a candidates' forum in Portsmouth, N.H., "all said man-made global warming hasn't been proven." The epidemic next appeared in New Mexico, where all three Republican candidates for Congress, and the GOP candidate for governor, denied the existence of man-made climate change. The candidates for Congress gave waffling-but-cool answers on a questionnaire, but subsequent digging revealed that all flatly deny the science. Intrigued, I began to poke around other states. Virtually all Republicans criticize what they call "cap-and-tax" as too expensive, but how many actually deny the reality of climate change science? How many have been infected by Teh Stoopid? A lot. A real lot. Be afraid.

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