Know What Else Climate Liars Like To Lie About? Mail Bombs Sent To Democratic Leaders
A number of climate skeptics are rejecting the threat of mail bombs sent to Democrats and the media, in what some observers describe as a nexus of conspiratorial thinking in the politically charged days before the midterm elections. Some prominent conservatives, including many who reject climate science, have questioned whether the devices allegedly sent through the mail by Cesar Sayoc are "fake bombs." Others described the attempted delivery of 12 or more bombs as a "hoax," echoing claims by the president and other conservatives meant to discredit human-caused global warming.
"The Secret Service must treat these possible hoaxes as real in the unlikely event they are not another liberal scam," wrote Kurt Schlichter, a conservative columnist with the website Townhall. He has also accused climate scientists of lying about rising temperatures. "Climate change is a fraud and I'm going to increase my carbon footprint because the hell with you," he wrote in March, directing his comments at Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech University.
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Steve Milloy, a former member of the Trump administration's EPA transition team who rejects climate science on his JunkScience blog, suggested that Booker, the Democratic senator who was targeted by a mail bomb, may have sent it to himself. "Having a fake bomb addressed to you is the new Democrat status symbol," Milloy wrote in one tweet. In another, he wrote, "I won't be surprised to find some progressive psycho on the other end of these. Possibly not meant to explode — only to create #FakeNews chatter about presumed GOP responsibility."
Frank Gaffney, who runs the Center for Security Policy, which has gained notoriety for promoting Islamophobia, has claimed that scientists have doubts about human-caused climate change. Scientists say it's "unequivocal." Last week, Gaffney suggested that the bombs might have been a ruse to distract from negative press about liberal protesters confronting conservative politicians in restaurants. "None of the leftists ostensibly targeted for pipe-bombs were actually at serious risk, since security details would be screening their mail," Gaffney wrote on Twitter. "So let's determine not only who is responsible for these bombs, but whether they were trying to deflect attention from the Left's mobs."
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