Republican spindcotor Marc Morano is leaving his $134,000 post with Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) to start a *groan* “fledgling Web site that will serve as a ‘clearinghouse and one-stop shopping’ for climate and environmental news.”
See you in the real world Morano, you’re going to find it a lot harder to spin your climate change hoax message without the help of the government trough.
Here’s a backgrounder on Morano.
Democracy is utterly dependent upon an electorate that is accurately informed. In promoting climate change denial (and often denying their responsibility for doing so) industry has done more than endanger the environment. It has undermined democracy.
There is a vast difference between putting forth a point of view, honestly held, and intentionally sowing the seeds of confusion. Free speech does not include the right to deceive. Deception is not a point of view. And the right to disagree does not include a right to intentionally subvert the public awareness.
Morano is tired of having to fight evolution AND climate science
Keeping track of biology and physics both predating the 1850s is simply tiring.
Now he can concentrate on climate science as taught Adam Smith and David Ricardo.
Guess who is funding his new web site
According to Kate Sheppard over at Gristmill “the new site will be funded by the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), a Washington-based free-market public policy group funded by Big Oil and, most entertainingly, billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife”. Mmm birds of a feather flock together.
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2009/3/6/142435/4390
At least he's no longer using
At least he’s no longer using taxpayer-funded resources to spread his garbage.
I hope he moves his “
650603 Skeptics” list out of epw.senate.gov soon.— bi