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(Negate : to deny the existence or truth of. Negationist : Someone who merely denies something without offering any positive assertion.)TV news anchor, Iñaki Gabilondo calls it el movimiento negacionista (the negationist movement) and shows this clip of Mariano Rajoy doubting the risks of global warming … because his cousin says so.
It gets worse. Since not one of “10 of the most important scientists in the world” (that, for a start is the kind of general, “I’m trying to be impressive, but my IQ is lower than my shoe size”, statement made by ignorant morons and, to whom were these scientists important anyway?) could guarantee what the weather would be like the next day, Rajoy doesn’t think it possible for them to know what’s going to happen in 300 years time. (He’s presumably consulted experts in Junk Science?)
Fcuk me, ignorance on this scale hasn’t been promoted since the friggin Inquisition and it should scare the shit out of anyone living in Spain.
Imagine the repression / suppression / ignorance / irresponsibility and who knows what else - very likely nationalism, racism and xenophobia - that would follow if this idiot were ever allowed to have power.
Right now, this goon is making that American chimp look intelligent and, y’all know what’s said about cousins down in Redneck Country! 
I’ve said before that the whining centre far-right opposition Popular Party (PP), has redefined the meaning of political “opposition”, because all they do is just oppose everything. Truly, they appear to have no policies other than disagreement and denial, so el movimiento negacionista (the negationist movement) is an absolutely perfect description.
Minister for blogging, Pepe Blanco, comments on the matter with a post wittily entitled, Con R de retroceso (retroceso : backward movement, deterioration, worsening, recession); a play on the Con Z de Zapatero campaign to take stock of what PSOE have done whilst in office.
(Yeah, yeah, of course they’re going to focus on the good things …)
Anyway, Blanco says, “We now know Rajoy’s program in respect to environmental themes. To do nothing.” He considers what Rajoy has said over the effects of climate change as “a mammoth brutality” (for what it’s worth, I think that’s an understatement) and, says it’s paradoxical that Aznar accuses Zapatero’s Government of applying short-term political policies, exactly when Rajoy demonstrates that he is ever further from reality. Blanco continues, “Only a myopic could make these declarations. His are not short-term policies, it’s a policy of backward movement.”
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