Include me among those who don’t understand all the anger directed against adaher. I find him about the least offensive of the vocal Republicans or right-wingers on the Board. (In fact, I’d ask Dopers to nominate a Republican/right-wing they consider less offensive than adaher. No fair nominating a RINO who’s started voting Demo after the GOP shift to looney zone.)
Even the charge of racism may be wrong. I don’t perceive adaher as having the bloated-amygdala hatreds that characterize most right-wingers. Instead his comments were just typical GOP pro-Freedom noise. Of course, like all right-wingers his sense of “freedom” doesn’t extend to goals like Blacks having freedom to access to education.
On the specific issue of climate change, adaher has a stance I wish more progressives would adopt:
Even the Board’s “smartest” right-wingers don’t grasp that much. Chief Pedant would just rave, for the 999th time, that he likes to fly his private jet, and U.S. shouldn’t do anything all the other countries don’t do first. Hyperlibertarians like Sam Stone oppose any use taxes as “interference with free market.” Partisans like Bricker would just laugh: "Ha ha ha. my side is ruining the Earth. You lose!’