Weekly GOP Radio Address Spews Misinformation About Copenhagen and Climate

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By Chris Mooney
Dec 15, 2009 7:07 PMNov 20, 2019 5:28 AM

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It's just amazing to listen to. Here's Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), stating completely misleading or wrong things like the following:

A Copenhagen agreement will "destroy millions of American jobs and damage our economic competitiveness for decades to come."

"Also absent from the discussion in Copenhagen is the Climategate scandal. Recently leaked e-mails reveal climate scientists have a long track record of manipulating data to hide scientific evidence that contradicts the global warming establishment...This scandal raises serious questions about Democrats’ climate control plans, questions that deserve a transparent investigation – not a rush to judgment – by the bureaucrats in Copenhagen."

What can you even really say to this kind of stuff?

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