Our Coming Mega-Drought

Here are a few recent data points for you: (1) The New York Times reports that “skepticism and outright denial of global warming are among the articles of faith of the Tea Party movement.” (2) In the National Journal, Ron Brownstein notes that “The GOP is stampeding toward an absolutist rejection of climate science that appears unmatched among major political parties around the globe, even conservative ones….Of the 20 serious GOP Senate challengers who have taken a position, 19 have declared that the science of climate change is inconclusive or flat-out incorrect.” (3) It’s not just Senate candidates. ThinkProgress notes that an analysis by Wonk Room “finds that 22 of the 37 Republican candidates for governor this November are deniers of the scientific consensus on global warming pollution.” (4) TheWall Street Journal reports that “extreme drought” has taken hold in parts of nine states stretching from the Southeast to the lower Midwest.

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