Dems tie climate skeptics to tobacco, lead backers
Two Democratic lawmakers held a briefing Thursday to argue that climate change skeptics use similar arguments and tactics to those who believed that tobacco and lead are not harmful. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Rep. Henry Waxman (R-Calif.) said similar conservative interests have been behind many of movements that have been discredited,
Climate Depot Response: Warmists trot out tobacco smear to demean skeptics: Climate Depot Responds: 'The warmists have it exactly backwards. It is the global warming proponents who are guilty of the tobacco tactics.'