Earth Equity News

Republican National Chairman Says the Planet is Cooling, Not Warming. By Sam Stein, HuffingtonPost, March 16, 2009. "Two weeks ago, amidst concern that Michael Steele's media exposure was creating serious political damage, the RNC chairman decided to guest-host William Bennett's national conservative radio program. In a virtually unnoticed two-hour tour-de-force, the Maryland Republican sat in for the conservative talker on March 6... When a listener scoffed at the notion of global warming, Steele eagerly ran with the baton. 'Thank you, thank you,' he said. '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? Iceland, which is now green. Oh I love this. Like we know what this planet is all about. How long have we been here? How long? No very long.' Greenland, for the record, likely had forestation some 450,000 to 800,000 years ago. But its name was derived, as is most commonly believed, from Erik the Red, who wanted to trick people into going to that island as opposed to the more hospitable Iceland."