
Conservative ideologues have apparently abandoned the ridiculous claim that the jury’s still out on global warming. The new talking points, as outlined in this Heritage Foundation video, are as follows: Global warming has happened before, it won’t be catastrophic and it’s not worth endangering the global economy.
Forget that mass extinctions have also happened before, experts agree it could be catastrophic and the Stern Review described global warming as a major threat to the world economy that should be addressed sooner rather than later.
Watch it:
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