Griper Blade: Global Warming Skeptics Take a New Tack -- 'We Are Screwed'

After the release of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's report on global warming, the global warming flatearthers seem to be splitting into two groups. The first group is represented by the American Enterprise Institute, an oil company 'think tank,' who still think they can buy their way out of responsibility. No sooner had the IPCC report hit the headlines than AEI sent out a fax to just about every PR flak in existence offering a $10,000 bounty to anyone disputing the report.

The other tack seems to be represented by another corporate think tank, the Competitive Enterprise Institute. At this point, both groups -- in fact, almost all global warming deniers -- have pretty much given up on denying global warming. Having lost that scientific battle, as well as public opinion, they've backed off the 'global warming isn't even happening' line and began to attack the science that shows humans as the cause. Here's were the two groups have split. AEI is sticking to the human cause denial, but the Competitive Enterprise Institute -- perhaps wiser in its way -- recognizes that the IPCC report is the final nail in the coffin of the argument against human cause.

But right about there, their wisdom stops. Having backpedaled on denying global warming completely, they were forced to admit it was happening, but denied human cause. Now, having been driven off that hill as well, they backpedal further. Now fighting global warming is a cure worse than the disease.

If you go to CEI's environmental policy page, you come across this bit of insanity; "Although global warming has been described as the greatest threat facing mankind, the policies designed to address global warming actually pose a greater threat." That's right, fighting global warming is a threat to mankind. See, the problem with mitigating climate change is that it's going to be expensive and, as every school kid knows, the dinosaurs went extinct because they spent too much money.

Or something like that...

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