As with “fiscal responsibility,” “small government” and “family values,” the Republican position on climate change tosses the party’s supposedly core values out the window the minute it conflicts with Republican interests. This is supposed to be the party of markets, and it’s supposed to defer to the verdicts of the marketplace in a way all those namby-pamby economic Luddites on the left do not.
OK, well, the marketplace is telling Republicans that climate change is real, not some liberal fetish or Chinese hoax. Their response: pretend not to hear it.
We don’t need any more evidence that the GOP has become the party of bone-headed denial when faced with inconvenient facts. But I supply some anyway.