GOP candidates bound to feel ‘climate shock’ on the campaign trail
Though the connection between extreme weather and climate change is easy to hyperbolize (God’s or Mother Nature’s wake-up call?), the Weather Channel – owned by a consortium that includes private equity firms The Blackstone Group and Bain Capital, which was co-founded by Mitt Romney – is taking the connection seriously and has targeted conservatives with messages from 25 influential voices on climate change that include former Bush Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, former CIA director James Woolsey, former VP of the Heartland Institute Eli Lehrer, and two GOP EPA chiefs: William K. Reilly and Christine Todd Whitman.
