Posted by
Defend America on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 8:58:49 PM
Bernie Sanders compares climate skeptics to Nazi deniers
By
MARIN COGAN |
2/23/10 2:20 PM EST
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is comparing climate change skeptics
to those who disregarded the Nazi threat to America in the 1930s,
adding a strident rhetorical shot to the already volatile debate over
climate change.
"It reminds me in some ways of the debate taking place in this country
and around the world in the late 1930s," said Sanders, perhaps the most
liberal member of the Senate, during a Senate hearing Tuesday. "During
that period of Nazism and fascism's growth-a real danger to the United
States and democratic countries around the world- there were people in
this country and in the British parliament who said 'don't worry!
Hitler's not real! It'll disappear!"
Sanders’ reference to the Nazi threat is sure to enrage Republicans who
are already skeptical of the science behind climate change. But Sanders
wasn't the only one throwing bombs at a hearing that was ostensibly
about the EPA's fiscal 2011 budget. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), who has
called global warming a "hoax," is asking for an investigation into the
science used in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC), the governing body on climate science.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33371.html