The Republican National Committee Chairman, Michael Steele, has weighed in on climate change. 
In a March 6 radio appearance that is only now percolating through the blogosphere, Mr. Steele apparently fielded a skeptic’s question about global warming. As transcribed by The Huffington Post, a liberal site, Mr. Steele thanked the questioner and replied this way:
We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I am using my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process. Greenland, which is now covered in ice, it was once called Greenland for a reason, right? Oh I love this. Like we know what this planet is all about. How long have we been here? How long? No very long.
Mr. Steele -– the originator of the “drill baby drill” slogan that dominated last year’s Republican National Convention — appears to be aligning himself with Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, also a Republican, who has denounced the idea of a global warming catastrophe as
“the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,”
and said that many of the Obama administration’s early moves amounted to “environmental thuggery.”
[Again, I prefer 'scam'; hoaxes are done for fun whereas scams are perpetrated for (in this case, extreme) profit.]
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