Al Gore: Tea Party making climate science a ‘political football’

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http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/126131-al-gore-tea-party-making-climate-science-a-political-football

Al Gore is on the political offensive against global warming skepticism in the Tea Party movement.

“Unfortunately the Tea Party movement seems to want to make belief in science a political football,” the former vice president wrote on his website Tuesday afternoon (and tweeted about today).
http://blog.algore.com/2010/10/facts_should_matter_not_ideolo.html
http://twitter.com/#!/algore

Gore, a longtime advocate of capping greenhouse gases, points to a New York Times story this month that said, “Skepticism and outright denial of global warming are among the articles of faith of the Tea Party movement.”

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President Carter, speaking Monday on the MSNBC show "Hardball," said, “The Tea Party movement has been ... almost completely financed by hard-right oligarchs who want to prevent the oil companies and major corporations from having to pay their share of taxes or to comply with environmental laws.”

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1. Good on 'em for speaking the truth - it's time for a new, bold, campaign...

...to move ahead with sane policies.