Paul Krugman, writing in the NY Times, said in part that the declaration by Georgia Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia that climate change science was a hoax perpetrated by the scientific community was so crazy that it was "unfair to crazy conspiracy theorists", because to believe it requires believing in vast amounts of fabricated and adjusted data of all kinds, and that everybody is in on the conspiracy so that they are getting all those peer-reviewed papers published.
OF course, if you read a host of climate change skeptical sites, that's exactly what the regulars responding to the propagandic posts believe. And they blame "leaders" like James Hansen and Al Gore.
It's sad. Still, I expect these sites to find fault with Krugman getting it wrong about what will get released from melting permafrost (that would be methane, not CO2, but methane eventually converts to CO2 in the atmosphere), and of course he'd be in on the conspiracy, too, because of that error. Welcome to the club, Paul!
I truly wonder how many people on the Titanic denied that the "unsinkable" ship wasn't sinking until there was a noticeable slant to the deck. And I also wonder how many of those of that opinion were sailing first class. Sometimes money and power (and even a good education, in the wrong subjects) get in the way of ascertaining what is actually happening in your local environment. Which today is the globe itself.
"Nearer my God to thee", my friends.
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