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From the Slate article:"For 20 years, evidence about global warming has been directly and
explicitly linked to a set of policy responses demanding international
governance regimes, large-scale social engineering, and the redistribution
of wealth. These are the sort of things that most Democrats welcome, and
most Republicans hate. No wonder the Republicans are suspicious of the
science."
Somehow even a usually centrist outlet as Slate falls into the
right-wing clap-trap of blaming everything on progressive policies that
are on the edges of science or have nothing to do with science;
therefore, because these are progressive causes, science itself is to be
disbelieved because many or most scientists consider themselves to be
progressive. The right-wingers like to speak and write in quick, easy
to digest one-line retorts which fit into the narrow belief systems of the
public eager for USA Today type reporting. It's very easy to lump things
into these neat one-liners: global warming is being debated, therefore
it is not to be