Dan Froomkin's Press Watch reports an incident that was of course ignored by the lapdog media:
Timothy Cama wrote about the extraordinary phenomenon of the Senate GOP hosting a lunch speaker who argues that “more fossil fuel use will actually make the world a far better place,” with “higher environmental quality and less danger from climate.”
Republican senators heard from pro-fossil fuel advocate Alex Epstein at a closed-door Wednesday lunch.
Epstein, who leads the Center for Industrial Progress and has written books including “Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas — Not Less,” spoke with senators at a regularly scheduled lunch hosted by the Senate GOP’s Steering Committee, a conservative body led by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) that includes most of the conference.
Cama ID’d several senators who toted away signed copies of the book, “including John Kennedy (R-La.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.).”
He also wrote "The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels."
As Froomkin points out, Republicans were "oohing and aahing" over a guy who, as energy expert Arthur E. Berman wrote for Resilience.org, doesn’t simply deny climate change, he believes that a sinister deep state shadow entity he calls the “mainstream knowledge system” controls the discourse over climate change.
The world is burning up, yet this is who Republicans choose to listen to.
Being a Republican (or a Democratic millionaire whose wealth is tied to coal) requires the cognitive dissonance of ignoring the evidence of your own eyes and replacing it with industry propaganda.
