Bernie Sanders: Climate Deniers Like Nazi Deniers

Skeptics hope warming, like Hitler, will just go away
By Will McCahill,  Newser Staff
Posted Feb 23, 2010 7:37 PM CST
Bernie Sanders: Climate Deniers Like Nazi Deniers
Sen. Bernard Sanders, I-Vt.   (AP Photo)

Sen. Bernie Sanders used a hearing today on the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget to lay into those, including some Republican colleagues, who doubt the science behind climate change. “It reminds me in some ways of … the late 1930s,” said the Vermont independent. “During that period of Nazism and fascism’s growth … there were people in this country and in the British parliament who said ‘Don’t worry! Hitler’s not real! It’ll disappear!”
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