Climate denialists won’t let us have a science laureate

THIS IS WHAT CRAZED GOVERNMENT AUTHORITARIAN ASS CLOWNS DO!

Conservative lobbyists told Congress to squash a bill establishing the honorary position

BY LINDSAY ABRAMS

Enlarge(Credit: U.S. House of Representatives)

Depending on who you want to believe, we came really close last week to either giving someone ”a national platform to foster public understanding of science and serve as a role model” or assigning yet another Obama puppet to further the climate change agenda.

Just like how the poet laureate “serves as the nation’s official lightning rod for the poetic impulse of Americans,” Congress proposed a bipartisan bill this spring for U.S. science laureates to rev up the nation about something that many find obscure and complicated. Maybe, the bill’s sponsors figured, the three unpaid appointees would encourage kids to pursue the sciences as a career.

Last week, climate change skeptics, fueled by the American Conservative Union (ACU), shut that crazy idea down.

“Although the bill seems innocuous, it will provide the opportunity for President Obama to make an appointment of someone (or more than one person) who will share his view that science should serve political ends, on such issues as climate change and regulation of greenhouse gases,” the ACU’s Larry Hart wrote in a letter to Congress. ...

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