Brad JohnsonOct 15, 2024
The public mockery of “environmentalists” for concern about climate pollution began, by my reckoning, with a New York Times op-ed on August 28, 1971. In “No, Breathe Easier,” the Ayn Rand acolyte and mining executive Eugene Guccione called the greenhouse effect “idiocy,” telling Times readers to “relax.”
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Show threadBrad JohnsonOct 15, 2024

Jumping forward to 2005, Ayn Rand acolyte Glenn Beck calls the thousands of victims trapped in Hurricane Katrina’s floodwaters in New Orleans “scumbags” and compares Al Gore’s landmark climate documentary An Inconvenient Truth to Hitler’s antisemitic propaganda.

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Beck was rewarded with a primetime show on CNN Headline News, hosting evangelical climate-denier Alabama television meteorologist James Spann on January 22, 2007 to scoff at the “manmade catastrophic global warming bandwagon” and personally attack climate scientist Heidi Cullen as a McCarthyite.
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Show threadBrad JohnsonOct 15, 2024
For nearly two decades, Spann used his own blog and long-running podcast to coordinate with Sen. Jim Inhofe’s (R-Okla.) climate-denier aide Marc Morano to attack climate scientists like James Hansen and science communicators like Bill Nye.
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Show threadBrad JohnsonOct 15, 2024

It’s now 2024, and the conspiracy-peddling science-denying weatherman Spann is reaping what he sowed.

In the wake of Hurricane Helene, Spann faced a “barrage of hostile comments” from online anti-FEMA conspiracy theorists warning him: “Stop lying about the government controlling the weather or else.”

Oops.

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Killing The Climate Messenger

The world created by decades of fossil-fueled climate conspiracy theories

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