Keep peeing in the pool?! Climate deniers lose their minds after new EPA rules

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http://www.salon.com/2014/06/03/keep_peeing_in_the_pool_climate_deniers_lose_their_minds_after_new_epa_rules/




As we noted last night, the global warming deniers were sure to start firing on all carbon-emitting pistons this week in response to the Obama EPA’s landmark announcement todayof proposed new rules to decrease harmful, climate-destabilizing CO2 pollution from existing dirty power plants, as per the U.S. Supreme Court-mandated enforcement of the Clean Air Act.

The deniers haven’t disappointed.

The following quotes come from a press release sent out this morning from the fossil fuel industry-funded “Heartland Institute,” which pretends to offer science-based arguments in support of their “mission…to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems.”

In fact, the group serves as little more than a mouthpiece for Big Carbon and the modern Republican Party which, largely thanks to Citizens United in 2010, now eschews the use of actual science in the public sphere.

Despite their ironic “non-profit” status — enjoying government subsidies for promoting “free-market solutions” — the Heartland Institute is also little more than an arm of the Republican Party. In one of the responses to today’s announcement, the Heartland Institute President argues that “Republicans in the House and Senate are right to oppose EPA’s new global warming rules,” and “Voters will do well to remember who was on their side during the coming political battles.”