Green group hits Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle in campaign attacking GOP climate skeptics

The League of Conservation Voters launched an online campaign Tuesday targeting GOP “flat earthers” who deny or question climate-change science.

The video and ad campaign features a mock network called Flat Earth TV, in which Sarah Palin interviews various climate skeptics in the GOP candidate ranks, such as Wisconsin Senate candidate Ron Johnson and Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle.

“Ya know, I’m tired of hearing about this climate-change-y stuff coming from the so-called scientific experts,” the animated mock Palin says on the program. “Today we are going to talk to real experts, folks not afraid to refudiate all this global-warming mumbo-jumbo.”

(Palin invented the word “refudiate” in a July Twitter post attacking the proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero — its appearance is one of several jabs at Palin in the LCV campaign.)

Climate legislation collapsed in the Senate this year, and LCV and other environmental groups are now fighting Capitol Hill efforts to strip EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases under its existing powers.

Big GOP gains would further dim hopes for climate bills and bolster legislation to delay EPA rules sponsored by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.). His measure also has support from several centrist Democrats.

“The November elections are just six weeks away. If candidates like these are allowed to replace climate champions in November, we will feel more than just the loss of a few elected officials,” said LCV President Gene Karpinski in a prepared statement. “We will lose out on a clean energy future that creates jobs, increases our national security and protects the planet for future generations.”