With the narrow passing of the historic Waxman-Markey climate-change bill, the pundits are weighing in on the winners and losers. For those keeping score, 212 representatives voted no. On watching the deniers make their arguments against the bill, NYT columnist Paul Krugman thought he was watching a form of treason--- “treason against the planet,” he wrote. We’ve learned at the local level that opposition to climate change stems from political and policy implications, and Krugman brings up the same point that deniers are deciding not to believe in climate change, desperately grabbing at any argument to support their denial, no matter how erroneous their science while emissions rise faster than expected. Krugman: Indeed, if there was a defining moment in Friday’s debate, it was the declaration by Representative Paul Broun of Georgia that climate change is nothing but a “hoax” that has been “perpetrated out of the scientific community.” I’d call this a crazy conspiracy theory, but doing so would actually be unfair to crazy conspiracy theorists. We tend to agree. Watch HERE.

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