Ron Johnson Illustrates Just How Blatantly Fucking Stupid The GQP Has Been For Years

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Johnson has said several times that he is not a climate change denier nor a climate change alarmist. However, he has an extensive record of publicly denouncing the science of climate change despite extensive evidence that climate change is real. During an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2010, Johnson suggested that excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is good for the environment because it “gets sucked down by trees and helps the trees grow.” He also called those who believe in human-caused climate change “crazy,” labeled the theory as “lunacy,” and blamed the Earth’s changing climate on factors other than human activity.

When he ran for a second term in 2016, he doubled down on his dismissal of climate science. “No, I absolutely do not believe that the science of man-caused climate change is proven, not by any stretch of the imagination,” he told the newspaper. He also opposed government spending to address global warming, saying that trying to “control” the climate simply hurts the economy, a sentiment he has repeated in his 2022 campaign.

During a luncheon with the Republican Women of Greater Wisconsin in June 2021, Johnson agreed with British climate change skeptic Lord Christopher Monckton describing climate change as “bullsh*t” mouthing the expletive. “By the way, it is,” said Johnson at the luncheon. At the same time, Johnson has often rejected identifying as a climate change denier. “The climate has always changed and always will change, so I don’t deny climate change,” he said in the Oct. 7 debate against Barnes. “The question is, can you really do anything about it?”

During the debate, he also criticized “spending hundreds of billions of dollars trying to solve a problem that’s not solvable” and said that the country’s reliance on fossil fuels won’t change any time soon “because wind and solar are not reliable.” Throughout his campaign, the Republican from Oshkosh has also denounced spending on clean energy, something Barnes strongly supports.

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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02112022/wisconsin-senate-ron-johnson-mandela-barnes/

[Midnight Writer]

1. Saying "I'm not an expert, but..." is a method to avoid answering questions about your position.

Then, when challenged with facts, they say "I don't know about that, but..."

Never understood why willful ignorance is considered an attractive trait by many.