Via Think Progress, we find out that the National Journal has just released a “Congressional Insiders Poll,” which surveyed Congress’ position on global warming. Think Progress thinks the results are startling. Unfortunately, I think they are fairly predictable. Just 13 percent of Republicans in Congress say they “believe that human activity is causing global warming.” Some of the comments that follow though, are fairly amusing, like this choice one zinging Gore:
“The only Inconvenient Truth is that anyone can be a movie star, even someone as boring as Al Gore.”
Ha. So that’s some really pertinent insight. Thank you, Congressmen and women. The thing is, global warming is most definitely a product of human behavior and apparently, it’s just the beginning of an even larger problem. According to Julia Whitty, writing today on our new environmental blog, The Blue Marble, “climate change is only one symptom of a greater disease scientists call global environmental change (GEC). Global warming is the rash. GEC is the bubonic plague.”
