Over at Minnesota Central, McPherson Hall takes a look at Brian Davis's campaign strategy in MN-01 : Davis Press Release – Blame Walz First.
He nails it: we're beginning to wonder if the endorsee is this year's Stepford candidate.
Certainly, his admirers don't go far from the party line. Witness the letter in today's Post Bulletin by Mazeppa Township GOP activist John Adams, The truth about global warming who begins:
I attended the State Republican Convention at Rochester's Mayo Civic Center. The proudest moment for me was when the entire assembly gave congressional candidate Brian Davis a standing ovation for stating that he doesn't buy into the theory of human caused global warming.
Dr. Davis, a scientist himself, knows there has never been a consensus among scientists. Dr. Davis knows that 31,000 scientists have signed a petition saying supporters of man-made global warming are using questionable science to support their theory. . . .
We had to stop reading for a moment, given that sort of "evidence." It's pretty truthy, alright.
What's the truth about that petition, which Davis and his allies clutch so dearly as evidence? Real Climate: Climate science from climate scientists took a look at it back in 2007 in a post aptly titled Oregon Institute of Science and Malarkey. The post looks more at the article which accompanied the petition, but the real climate scientists aren't alone in debunking the petition.
SourceWatch took a look at the petition's sponsor and the checkered history of the petition and accompanying article in the entry, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine. Yep, that's some science they got there.
John Adams has written before about climate change, his tin foil hat firmly in place. On February 16, 2007, readers of the Winona Daily News picked up the paper to learn that the notion was merely a ploy to enslave them:
Environmentalism is the far left’s best excuse for having government control our lives. They claim it’s for the children or for dear old “Mother Earth.” Past attempts by these proponents of doomsday scenarios just haven’t yielded the total control from big government they desire. So-called “global warming” appears to give these worshippers of darkness an issue that could be large enough to take total control of mankind throughout the globe. . . .
That's anexample of the paranoid style that could get the attention of Richard Hofstader--and he's been dead for a while now.
For documents on scientific opinion about climate change, see this list at Wikipedia. For a long discussion of the issue about consensus, click here.
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