How do "conservatives" in Montana deal with climate change?

[SHRED]

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Oh they just censor information.

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January 17, 2008
Climate Talk’s Cancellation Splits a Town
By JIM ROBBINS

CHOTEAU, Mont. — School authorities’ cancellation of a talk that a Nobel laureate climate researcher was to have given to high school students has deeply divided this small farming and ranching town at the base of the east side of the Rocky Mountains.

The scholar, Steven W. Running, a professor of ecology at the University of Montana, was scheduled to speak to about 130 students here last Thursday about his career and the global changes occurring because of the earth’s warming.

Dr. Running was a lead author of a global warming report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the 400-member United Nations body that shared last year’s Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore. But when some residents complained that his presentation here would be one-sided because no opposing view would be offered, the superintendent of Choteau School District No. 1, Kevin St. John, canceled it.
Dr. Running was surprised.

“Disbelief was the primary reaction,” he said in a telephone interview. “I’ve never been canceled before. But it was almost comical. I had a pretty candid discussion with the superintendent and the school board, and they said there were some conservative citizens who didn’t want me to speak.”

MORE:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/17/us/17climate.html?_r=4&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print


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[jaksavage]

1. Denial mostly. nt

[CanonRay]

2. Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.

They've got their heads up their ass, as usual.