"But it's a hooooooooooooax!!!"

Are the conservatives going to stop insisting climate change is a hoax now?

I think those who deny climate change are a cult. Most scientists agree that the debate is over: Climate change is real and is caused by human activity. When the findings are explained, allowing us to weigh the facts, it's easy to see how.

But skeptics of these findings produce no facts. Just corporate-backed dogma that we're expected to believe "just because." One of the characteristics of a cult is that its ideas don't hold up under even minimal investigation.

The way they do it can be insidious, depending on their agenda of the moment. They'll cite one weather-related problem to deny another that's the exact opposite, like the last 2 years when they implied that the flooding rains we had were a hoax. (I bike around Cincinnati a lot, and I don't think I've seen an instance in which part of the downtown riverfront hasn't been closed due to high water in over 2 years.)

According to skeptics, last year's record heat wave was a hoax because it was "balanced" by this year's cold snap. They try to indoctrinate people into thinking that extremes "balancing" each other out is "proof" that climate change is made-up.

It doesn't work that way, brainiacs.

Yesterday another climate change item broke, this one from right out of our region. In Ohio, state parks have seen a stunning decrease in campers - even from within the state. You'd think they'd get more in-state visitors, because gas prices keep folks from traveling further. But the flooding rains have blunted recreation.

Campsite rentals were 13% lower this June than in June of last year. Even the Associated Press said it was due to "constant rain."

This drop in business cost the Buckeye State $300,000 in state park revenue.

Are the Movementarians going to say the AP and the state of Ohio made that up? If it rains like this again next year, are they going to say it's a "drought" that "balances" it out? (Mark my words: I'm giving odds of 80% they will say this regardless of how much it rains.)

It just goes to show there's a whole cult built on climate change denial.

(Source: http://www.kypost.com/content/wcposhared/story.aspx?content_id=f52b0d2b-e25d-414c-9d11-3dfacd3144ac)