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News You Can Use: He may not look like the racist he is, but he does look


dumb. Ron White Cape Johnson - well read, he is not. In his own words...

In an attempt to undermine climate science, Sen. Ron Johnson falsely claimed in 2010 that Greenland - a largely ice-covered island - was named for its once-green landscapes.

Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, told The New York Times last week that he had "no idea" how Greenland got its name.

"You know, there's a reason Greenland was called Greenland," Johnson told Madison news outlet WKOW-TV in 2010. "It was actually green at one point in time. And it's been, you know, since, it's a whole lot whiter now so we've experienced climate change throughout geologic time."

In reality, Erik Thorvaldsson, a Viking settler also known as Erik the Red, gave Greenland a misleading name in the hopes of attracting Europeans to the island. The Danish territory has been covered in ice and glaciers for at least 2.5 million years.

Some of those who deny the scientific consensus on climate change spread the myth that ice ages and warm periods between them prove that the warming the Earth is experiencing is natural. Johnson has repeatedly rejected the science showing that climate change is overwhelmingly caused by human activity. He's falsely claimed that global warming is caused by sunspots and that there's nothing humans can do to reverse the phenomenon.

"If you take a look at geologic time, we've had huge climate swings," Johnson told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in a 2010 interview. "I absolutely do not believe that the science of man-caused climate change is proven, not by any stretch of the imagination. I think it's far more likely that it's just sunspot activity or something just in the geologic eons of time where we have changes in the climate."

He went on: "The Middle Ages was an extremely warm period in time too, and it wasn't like there were tons of cars on the road."

Courtesy Business Insider

Ol Ronny can't take a bath, he would drown in two inches of water.




Posted: 03/23/2021 at 10:03AM



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