The Conservative Fool Of The Day is...Michael Doherty!

I know that Kentucky legislative candidate John Albers should really be today's ConservaFool, but Michael Doherty's strange ideas should give any other right-wing fartpipe a run for their money.

Michael J. Doherty is a Republican legislator in the New Jersey General Assembly with Big Business and other right-wing ties. He calls himself a climate change skeptic.

That stance alone is almost a surefire way to be ConservaFooled, for this skepticism is really a cult. Climate change is real. Those who deny it keep telling us to trust their side just because. They never offer any credible evidence suggesting that climate change is fake.

It's instructive that industry groups with a vested interest in denying climate change have supported Doherty's political campaigns.

Now Michael Doherty is claiming that there's new data showing climate change isn't real, and that this "fact" should result in ignoring a new state law designed to combat climate change gas emissions. He also wants the new law repealed.

Uh, what??? Is this like a couple months ago when conservatives kept claiming they had an ad with 30,000 signatures "proving" climate change was fake? That sure turned out to be a bust, didn't it?

What's Doherty's "evidence" that climate change is made-up? He said it's not real because (according to him) the planet is actually getting cooler, not warmer. Um, Michael? Even if that was true, wouldn't that be climate change??? Duh!

There is a scientific consensus that climate change is real and is caused by human activity. If Michael Doherty wants to argue with NASA and the USGS about it because he doesn't want regulations on his polluter friends, let him look like the illogical asshat he is.

(Source: http://www.politickernj.com/bguhl/22291/doherty-new-scientific-data-justifies-repealing-global-warming-response-act;
http://www.logicalscience.com/consensus/consensusD1.htm)