A Climate of Denial

Sean Hannity, of Fox News, called climate change the "biggest scientific fraud, I think, in our lifetime." Rush Limbaugh put it a little differently, saying that belief in man-made global warming is a lot like believing in Santa Claus. Saul Landau has something to say about the current climate of climate change denial:

Unlike Hannity, I’m no scientist, but I also don’t believe in Santa Claus or, like the Chamber of Commerce in ongoing human adpatation to warmer climates. I trust my viscera, which have responded to the heat, fires, draughts, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis and tornadoes. “It doesn’t feel right,” my insides tell my brain, as I sit in a smog-filled downtown traffic jam (pick your city) and imagine a similar situation in Mumbai, Bangkok and Shanghai. Fumes and air-conditioners emitting gases. These ill winds blow malice on Nature and cannot help perpetuate human life. Millions of people – even coal, oil and Fox News executives — can imagine disaster scenarios with fires burning homes in Colorado or New England woods. Storms raging fromm the Midwest to the east knocking out power, killing twenty three people! Floods from hurricanes inundating neighborhoods in New Orleans! Food shortages everywhere! Tsunamis overwhelming nuclear plants in Japan and California! Etc…