Self parody alive and well in AZ Republican legislature

by David Safier

Remember how R Sen. Sylvia Allen declared the earth is 6000 years old on the Senate floor? (The priceless video is below.) It turns out she's chairing an Ad Hoc Committee on Climate Initiatives.

From the AZ Guardian piece, written by their snarkist-in-residence, the Guardian Angel:

. . . according to a press release, the Senator from Snowflake thinks federal proposals to reduce global warming are moving forward "without consideration for scientific evidence" (ha) and that "we are going after problems that do not exist."

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Still, the GA gets a kick out of the fact that Allen pretends to be attempting to uncover scientific evidence while stacking the panel with industry execs (utilities, oil companies) and someone from a Tempe global warming think tank that has been derided for its view that, hey, the globe isn't really warming. Tell that to the polar bears. This is Allen's second meeting of the committee and she's still shown no interest in hearing from other scientists or experts who represent the other side. (Which happens to be the prevailing view, by the way.)

Here's that trip down memory lane, of Allen on the Senate floor.