Joe Miller is trying to win the Republican Senate nomination by being the dumbest candidate available concerning climate science.

Courtesy of Alaska Dispatch:  

The tea party-affiliated candidate for Alaska’s open U.S. Senate seat is challenging his Republican primary opponents to “come clean” about their beliefs on man-made climate change, saying he’s the only true skeptic of the bunch. 

In a Saturday statement, Senate candidate Joe Miller said his primary opponents — state Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell and former natural resources commissioner Dan Sullivan — had “joined with climate change alarmists” to try and regulate greenhouse gas emissions, despite the fact that both men have well-tracked anti-climate histories. Treadwell, for example, is known for openly questioning the validity of climate science, while Sullivan led the charge in the U.S. Supreme Court to strip the EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases. 

“Clearly, both of my primary opponents have joined with climate change alarmists to push for top-down federal regulation,” Miller said. “It’s unclear how empowering the federal government to control even more of our economy, on the authority of dubious scientific claims, comports with free-market economics and Constitutional liberty.” 

Sullivan’s position on the reality of human-caused climate change has been dubious at best. But Miller nonetheless called him out, saying he “unequivocally accepted the premise that climate change is man-caused and embraced numerous mitigation strategies: including a national goal of steep reductions in the consumption of fossil fuels.” 

Treadwell, he said, has voiced support of “a similar agenda,” proven by the fact that he once testified before the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs in 2009 touting a plan to “us[e] cleaner fuels and methods to avoid emissions of soot, black carbon which promotes Arctic warming.”

Boy Miller certainly understands is under educated demographic doesn't he?

Since Miller's base is made up of Fundamentalist Christians, and information allergic Teabaggers, he probably realizes that if he can get them to turn out in big numbers in order to keep these other two "science believers" out of the running.

Of course the problem with that. for the Republicans, is that if they are lured toward the fringe and start openly denying the facts surrounding climate change they will be crucified during the general.

Especially since the recent National Assessment report identifies Alaska as "ground zero" for climate change.

It looks like Miller is doing Senator Begich's job for him again.

P.S. By the way we may have found Miller's perfect Lt. Governor candidate:  

Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan (R) told a local Chamber of Commerce Wednesday that if he were leading the state, he'd fight for Alaska's rights, including seizing land controlled by the federal government to develop oil production, radio station KRBD reported. Sullivan's remarks were widely circulated on Tuesday. 

“One of the things I’ve suggested, too, is that if I was governor today, I’d probably invade ANWR [Arctic National Wildlife Refuge],” Sullivan said. “What are they going to do, shoot you? Well, they might. But martyrdom goes a long way sometimes.”

It looks like somebody's been drinking the Cliven Bundy Kool-aid. 

Sometimes I am so embarrassed to live here.