Cross-posted at Blue Virginia

Is Ken Cuccinelli moving to the political center to win the Virginia governor's race? Um...no.

Quite to the contrary, our Ayatollah General is once again petitioning the courts to validate his favorite climate change conspiracy theories. Just last week, he asked the Supreme Court to throw out the US EPA's scientific finding that climate change represents a threat to human health.

If he wrote that he is filing his petition out of concern for his fossil fuel industry donors, who may have to sell a yacht or two if oil, gas and coal stocks sink, I might give him an A for honesty. No such luck -- his rationale (or more accurately, irrationale) is that thousands of scientists worldwide falsified their data as part of the biggest conspiracy since the faked moon landing.

David Doniger of NRDC demolishes this shoddy edifice in his blog by playing the dirty trick of quoting the last court -- the US Court of Appeals in Washington -- to throw this bum and his bull-hockey out on the street: