Thanks Uncle Dick

So much to thank Cheney for - and now we find...
He Ushered in Era of GOP Climate Denial

Former Vice President Dick Cheney may have been more responsible for the near-decade of climate inaction that the Bush administration oversaw than anyone else. It was he who hewed closest to the climate denial script a decade ago, and perfected the art of insistently calling into question peer-reviewed, consensus-backed science as an ironclad excuse for inaction. In an op-ed, the New York Times links Cheney's denial strategies to that same strategy employed by the current crop of GOP hopefuls -- almost all of which deny the science of climate change in much the same manner as the infamous ex-VP....
Nowadays, it is almost impossible to recall that in 2000, George W. Bush promised to cap carbon dioxide, encouraging some to believe that he would break through the partisan divide on global warming. Until the end of the 1990s, Republicans could be counted on to join bipartisan solutions to environmental problems. Now they've disappeared in a fog of disinformation, an entire political party parroting the Cheney line.

He just couldn't stop at pushing the war machine forward, spying on his own fellow citizens or shooting his own friend in the face. He had to take it one step further - send us all into the abyss of denial - close our eyes and the climate change won't happen. Yeah right!