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It is a truth universally acknowledged that human industrialization has lead to the overzealous production of greenhouse gases that have caused massive, irreversible damage to our planet, causing global temperatures to rise at unprecedented rates, threatening humanity with a greater risk of disease and death from freak weather, ecological disasters, food shortages, and more.
The only problem is that the GOP and their oil executive brethren pretend they don’t acknowledge this. And unfortunately, their followers—worshippers, even—have fallen for this ruse.
But we know this. We’ve known this for a while—pretty much as long as we’ve known that climate change is real. In fact, the only reason we use the term “climate change” is because of the GOP.
“The scientific debate is closing [against us] but not yet closed. There is still a window of opportunity,” explained a Republican Party memo in 2002, as they planned their campaign for Bush’s re-election. “Voters believe that there is no consensus about global warming within the scientific community. Should the public come to believe that the scientific issues are settled, their views about global warming will change accordingly. Therefore, you need to continue to make the lack of scientific…
