As I work my way through tracking climate zombies -- Republicans who doubt, deny, or deride the science-based reality of climate change -- it's become obvious that sheer political expediency is a factor in their denialism. They've made a crass calculation that it's better to pledge fealty to Koch-funded Americans For Prosperity and promise to oppose a chimerical "climate tax" than to listen to scientists. They're far more interested in winning over the right wing tea party base, for whom climate change doubt is an act of faith, than they are in governing.
But crass political calculation only goes so far. Consider the case of Ken Buck, running for the Senate in Colorado.
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