Washington Post Runs Editorial Claiming Tea Party Would Rather Watch The World Be Destroyed By Global Warming "Than Submit to Washington"

From Richard Cohen at the Washington Post:

My own eyes show rising ocean levels. They show the Arctic ice cap shrinking. They show massive beach erosion, homes toppling into the sea and meteorological records indicating steadily increasing temperatures. The Earth, our dear little planet, just had the hottest May on record.   

Politics, not science, may firm up both sides of the debate. A Pew Research Center poll last November found that 67 percent of Americans think the planet is indisputably getting warmer. Among Democrats and Democratic leaners, however, the figure is 84 percent, but among tea party types it’s 25 percent. Maybe more to the point, only 9 percent of tea party members think “human activity” has contributed to global warming. For their own sake, they ought to get out of the sun.

Ace of Spades blog comments:

Huh, I thought we just went through the coldest winter in the history of history and it killed the economy. 

A few fun facts I'm sure you are already familiar with...despite dire predictions of an ice free arctic, ice coverage is the same as it's been for 30 years. The US, far from being the worst climate offender (as Cohen and his co-cultists seem to imagine us) actually met the carbon reductions goals of the holy Kyoto Protocols. In fact, we were the only major country to do so. 

Oh, and no matter what Cohen's eyes see, there's been NO WARMING FOR OVER 17 YEARS.