Rick Santorum has to be a favorite punching bag for environmentalists. After all, he made a big splash in Coeur d'Alene, telling a crowd "It turns out man made global warming wasn't climate science, it was political science."

Here he is lying, once again, about the history of clean air and calling environmentalism “anti-science.”

(UPDATE: Apparently this video is disabled for embedding, so watch HERE.)

And then he said this:

[Someone came to Pittsburgh] during the heyday of the steel industry when we didn’t have any environmental regulations in Allegheny County. And someone looked at it and saw — it was night all the time in Pittsburgh, and it was black. And they said to Pittsburgh, “Abandon it.”

    And what did we do? Well, we here locally, not the federal government, not the state government, came forward and said, “Well we’ve got to do something about this.” And eventually the community gathered together and passed clean air regulations, and was able to begin to change things. There’s obviously a role for government to play in making sure we have responsible environmental stewardship. No more than we want to leave it to Earth to manage itself, than do we want to leave it to individuals to be able to do whatever they want to do.

Of course, the City Of Pittsburgh created the Clean Air Act! The Republican President at the time had nothing to do with it! today's a double feature and there's a fun Santorum suprise after the jump. You've been warned.

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