Climate Change / Global Warming and the Loony Tunes Right-Wing.

Climate change / global warming has been in the news of late (latter November 2018) and of course "The Donald" says he doesn't believe a word of it. So, "The Donald" apart, what about the rest of the loony tunes pack?

The loony right-wingers don’t usually attack the pure and applied sciences, after all they like their air conditioning, flying around on jet aircraft, their computers and TV sets and all of the other benefits that the pure and applied sciences have brought to them. Of course Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is a no-no not-not, and as for global warming / climate change – whew! That’s another definite no-no not-not. Climate change / global warming is one of the big issues facing this and obviously future generations. Just as obviously extreme right-wing Christian fundamentalists have to give the topic a theological spin (even though rational people know it doesn’t have any theological spin). Here is some of that no-no not-not spin culled from the “Right Wing Watch” website.

*Global Warming = The Second Coming? (Posted 17 March 2008)

*Religious Right Now Attacks Episcopal Church for Protecting the Environment. (Posted 20 January 2011)

*[Right-Wing Senator Rick] Santorum: Global Warming Is “Patently Absurd”. (Posted 9 June 2011)

*[Calvin] Beisner [head of the Cornwall Alliance] Rejects Koch-Funded Study Confirming Climate Change Science. (Posted 4 November 2011)

*[Senator] James Inhofe Says the Bible Refutes Climate Change. (Posted 8 March 2012)

*Pat Robertson Flip Flops and Denies Climate Change. (Posted 13 March 2012)

*[American Family Association president Tim] Wildmon: Efforts to Prevent Human-Influenced Climate Change are ‘Anti-Christian’. (Posted 22 March 2012)

*Talk Show Host [Brian Sussman]: Karl Marx Created Climate Change to Destroy Capitalism. (Posted 22 May 2012)

*Anti-Environmental Activist [Tom DeWeese of the American Policy Center] Denies Rising CO2 Levels, Insists ‘Trees Give off Carbon Dioxide’. (Posted 13 June 2012)

*[Bryan] Fischer & [Calvin] Beisner Say That Not Using Fossil Fuels is an Insult to God. (Posted 30 November 2012)

*[Pat] Robertson Dismisses ‘Nutty,’ ‘True Believer’ Climate Scientists. (Posted 21 February 2013)

*Steve Scalise at CPAC [Conservative Political Action Conference]: Climate Change Is a Myth Because Obama Was Cold at the Inauguration. (Posted 15 March 2013)

*[David] Barton: We Haven’t Had Global Warming In Sixteen Years. (Posted 14 August 2013)

*[Glenn] Beck: ‘If Anyone Does Anything In This Company [The Blaze] Because Of Global Warming, They’re Fired’. (Posted 21 August 2013)

*[Bryan] Fischer: ‘It is ignorant, ignorant, ignorant’ to think human behaviour can impact the climate. (Posted 13 September 2013)

*[David] Barton: It’s Not Global Warming, it is The Judgment of God. (Posted 31 October 2013)

*[Pat] Robertson: Climate Change Is A Myth Created By Money-Hungry Scientists. (Posted 7 January 2014)

*[Glenn] Beck Warns Those Who Don’t Believe In Global Warming or Abortion Rights Might Wind Up In Internment Camps. (Posted 5 February 2014)

*[Pat] Robertson: ‘Idiocy’ To Believe In Climate Change Since It Is Cold In The Winter. (Posted 18 February 2014)

*[Wisconsin GOP state senator] Glenn Grothman … Denies Climate Change Exists. (Posted 25 April 2014)

*Truth In Action Ministries Film Decries Climate Scientists As Idolaters And Communists. (Posted 28 April 2014)

*Pat Robertson Says Fighting Climate Change Will ‘Destroy America’. (Posted 7 May 2014)

*Christian Post Writer [Michael Bresciani] Says Extreme Weather Is Not Climate Change, But A Sign of the End Times. (Posted 12 May 2014)

*[Matthew] Hagee: It Is Not Climate Change; it’s The Imminent Return of Jesus Christ. (Posted 30 May 2014 on the “Right Wing Watch” website)

*Pat Robertson Thinks Cutting Air Pollution Won’t Prevent Asthma Attacks, But Watching [His] ‘700 Club’ Can. (Posted 3 June 2014)

*[Bryan] Fischer: Rising sea levels are of no concern because God will never destroy the Earth with flood waters. (Posted 19 September 2014)

*[Senator] Jim Inhofe Declares Victory for Climate Change Denialists: ‘We’ve Won’. (Posted 22 January 2015)

*Pat Robertson: Snow In Boston Disproves Climate Change. (Posted 10 February 2015)

*[Bryan] Fischer: Climate Science Like Believing Sun Revolves Around The Earth. (Posted 18 February 2015)

*Donald Trump Denies Existence of Climate Change: ‘Bad Weather’. (Posted 28 July 2015)

*Linda Harvey: US Must Fight Gay Rights, Not Climate Change. (Posted 16 September 2015)

*Jan Markell: Obama Ushering In Antichrist with Climate Change Agenda. (Posted 27 October 2015)

*[Right-Wing Texas Senator] Ted Cruz: ‘Climate Change Is Not Science, It is Religion’. (Posted 29 October 2015)

*[Senator James] Inhofe: Climate Change Science Ignores God’s Power. (Posted 2 December 2015)

*[Rep.] Louie Gohmert [R-Texas], Again: Greenland Proves Climate Change Is a Myth. (Posted 25 February 2016)

*Rick Joyner: Climate Change Is A Communist Plot. (Posted 28 September 2016)

*Trump’s EPA Pick [Scott Pruitt] Is a Fossil Fuel Industry Shill and Climate Change Skeptic. (Posted 7 December 2016)

*Joseph Farah: ‘Sin, Not Carbon, Causes Climate Change’. (Posted 31 January 2017)

*Pat Robertson: Climate Scientists Are Religious Fundamentalists. (Posted 1 February 2017)

*At CPAC [Conservative Political Action Conference], Climate Change Is the ‘Greatest Scientific Scandal in History’. (Posted 23 February 2017)

*From CPAC [Conservative Political Action Conference], The ‘Great News about Carbon Dioxide’ [is the idea of global warming connected to human activity is a huge scam by Marxists who are faking scientific data]. (Posted 24 February 2017)

*[V.P.] Mike Pence: ‘For Some Reason’ Liberals Care About Climate Change. (Posted 2 June 2017)

*Rodney Howard-Browne’s ‘Eskimo Friends’ Assure Him That Global Warming Is ‘A Total Fabrication’. (Posted 13 July 2018)

*Rick Wiles Sees the Upside of a [Imminent] Deadly Ice Age. (Posted 21 November 2018)

And the loony tunes right-wing are more certainly NOT happy little campers with respect to Pope Francis and his position on climate change! Here’s a quartet of stories that relate to that as posted on the “Right Wing Watch” website.

*Alex Jones: One Billion People Will Die If Pope Francis Gets His Way. (Posted 20 January 2015)

*Right Wing Steamed Over Pope’s Climate Change Encyclical. (Posted 19 June 2015)

*Alan Keyes: Pope Francis’ Climate Change Encyclical Will Usher In Genocide. (Posted 19 June 2015)

*Alex Jones: Pope’s Plan to Fight Climate Change Will Leave One Billion People Dead. (Posted 24 September 2015)