Global warming deniers' own goal?

“I am appalled that environmentalists are trying to ride on the backs of 160,000 dead people to push their global-warming agenda without any factual basis”, Pat Michaels told Muckraker in the week following the tsunami disaster

Of course the truth is that no environmentalist has made any such claim but appraently that hasn't stopped the rumour spreading being reported as fact. Environmentalists know that GW is not a cause of earthquakes and any consequent tsunamis. However, clearly denialists don't seem to realise this: presumably too transfixed by their own stereotyping and hatred of environmentalists to check the facts. I suspect that this is what has been going on in their heads.
"An environmental disaster? We all know what happens when there's an environmental disaster: we get the envrionment lobby jumping up and down and claiming its global warming ... well let's haed 'em off at the pass and get our counter calims in first ..."

The irony is that it shows that these folk really don't understand the issues whereas the environmentalists do. Revealed for what they are: knee-jerk reactionaries more interested in scoring points than the facts.

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