While testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Committee today, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich added a new to term the clean coal debate. At one point, he referred to the need for Congress to fund green coal, but there is no such thing as green coal. Coal can be cleaner, but it can’t be greener.
On MSNBC’s Countdown last night, host Keith Olbermann took up Fox News personality Sean Hannity’s waterboard charity challenge. Olbermann offered to give $1,000 to charity for every second Hannity lasted while being waterboarded. Needless to say, Hannity has not responded.
In his testimony to Congress former vice president Al Gore said that the global warming deniers are “like Bernie Madoff, they lied to the people who trusted them in order to make money.” He also said that the deniers have committed a massive fraud larger than Madoff’s.
Glenn Beck took his anti-global warming rhetoric to a new high or low, depending on your perspective today by comparing former vice president Al Gore’s congressional testimony on the importance of cap and trade legislation to the lies of Adolph Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, and the Nazis.
