The Associated Press is running with a rather tendentious headline at the moment, “AP FACT CHECK: On climate science, most GOP candidates fail.” For their fact check, the AP asked a group of Ph.D. scientists to grade presidential candidates based on their statements about global warming. To keep this supposedly unbiased, they didn’t tell the scientists which statements were from which candidate. I suppose the thinking is that if these scientists had any preexisting and unrelated political biases it would be hard to tell Republican rhetoric on global warming from Democratic rhetoric, which is laughable. The end result is that Hillary Clinton gets rated an “A” and all the GOP candidates flunk, and it’s presented as some kind of unassailable scientific judgment.
But consider this appalling quote from the AP article:
