Climate Denial Quotes
Eugenics was an intellectual movement of the first half of the 20th century that was mostly junk science and was debunked. While the analogy is clever and makes her political point about climate change science, there are actually several major differences. Eugenics was never a set of scientific laws that had near unanimous support of all the scientists in that and related fields while climate science is. Eugenics was not an experimental science where its principles were subject to refutation with data. So called Eugenic scientists did no experiments, analyzed almost no data, and were more philosophical and political than scientific. Most of the Eugenics advocates were not scientists at all and had little or no training in science.
Baker was referring to the "enviornmental" table -- the forums and institutions that had been and will continue to make decisions that effect many countries, By being too skeptical, the Reoublicans of the era took themselves out of the arena of policy and decision making on enviornment throughout the world. He urged that they get involved more actively.