Steele denies climate change

With the GOP trying to reinvent itself on the back of embattled party chairman Michael Steele, mocking the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change doesn’t seem like the right move. But that’s exactly what Steele did when he guest-hosted conservative William Bennett’s talk radio show. Steele chimed in when a listener called in to scoff at the notion of a warming planet:

“Thank you, thank you,” he said. “We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I am using my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process. Greenland, which is now covered in ice, it was once called Greenland for a reason, right? Iceland, which is now green. Oh I love this. Like we know what this planet is all about. How long have we been here? How long? No very long.”

Wow.