LA GOP candidate for Congress: Climate change is a hoax, can be disproved with thermometer

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LA GOP candidate for Congress: Climate change is a hoax, can be disproved with thermometer
By Tom Boggioni
Sunday, June 29, 2014 17:20 EDT

A Louisiana State Representative, seeking her district’s U.S. House seat, has posted a campaign video calling climate change “the greatest deception in the history of mankind,” and stating that it can be disproved using a simple thermometer.

In the video Lenar Whitney, who is running for the seat representing Louisiana’s sixth congressional district being vacated by Republican Bill Cassidy, claims climate change is being pushed by liberals, including former Vice President Al Gore, as a way to gain more power for government and raise taxes.

Using terminology usually associated with former half-term Governor Sarah Palin, Whitney claims that her pronouncement that climate change is a fraud, “caused liberals in the lamestream media to become unglued,” before equating herself with George Orwell, who once said: “In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

Calling former VP Al Gore’s “propaganda” film “The (sic) Inconvenient Truth,” Whitney explains that scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming can be disproved using a “thermometer.”