Major kudos to Rick Santorum, who capped a stellar debate performance last night with the unequivocal statement that global warming is a hoax. You will not hear this bold truth from his Big Government adversaries Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, both of whom can be expected to play along with this crippling swindle, exploiting it to increase the size and power of the state — despite growing awareness that it is a crock, as confirmed in an op-ed cowritten by 16 prominent scientists[...]
The most obvious of these facts is that it hasn’t gotten any warmer in over a decade. Global warming theories cannot account for this inconvenient truth.
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Since anyone qualified to teach high school science should know that global warming is not a scientific theory but a preposterous pretext for imposing oligarchical collectivism, why do so many scientists play along with it? One reason is fear.
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Any global warming caused by CO2 is likely to be mild and “an overall benefit to the planet.” The global warming hoax is a pernicious scheme to rob us of our liberty and our standard of living in the name of a ridiculous lie. Only someone with the character to openly reject it is qualified to lead America.
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"The most obvious of these facts is that it hasn’t gotten any warmer in over a decade. "
Which explains why it's over 50 degrees here in west-central Indiana, in the dead of winter.
Very few people even discuss this outside U.S anymore, as it is seen as a fact.
If even Chinese, the greatest polluter of the earth, admits it to be true, why can't you Yanks?
I'm sorry, even if you're right and it is a hoax what is wrong with trying to keep our environment green?
I never got that point. Why is aggressive industrialization, damn the consequences, more important than having a clean place to live?
@Dark Lord Prime: Same here too. Yesterday I saw a Robin! It actually stopped me in my tracks. I've never seen one show up this early before. We usually don't get them until at least March.
The most obvious of these facts is that it hasn’t gotten any warmer in over a decade.
You apparently weren't in the midwest last summer with record-breaking high temperatures and massive drought, along with several 60-degree days this winter.
Since anyone qualified to teach high school science should know that global warming is not a scientific theory
Santorum isn't qualified to run as city dog catcher. He's the same guy who told people to not send their kids to college. How do you get qualified to teach high school science? By getting a college degree.
Yes, 16 scientists don't believe in global warming. I'm not sure you realise how many scientists actually exist in the world, or you wouldn't be so proud of such a pathetically small number. Also, most of the scientists who signed their names to this "article" have no expertise in subjects related to climate change. Also, you're missing the point. "Global Warming" is about surface temperature increases. "Climate Change" incorporates many other factors. So just because you're not sunbathing in January doesn't mean that climate change isn't happening. The evidence is there. If you choose to bury your head in the sand that's fine. But you need to realise that there's only two sorts of people who don't believe in climate change:
1. Conspiracy theorists.
2. People who have a vested interest in allowing companies to carry on billowing tons of destructive chemicals into the atmosphere. (And actually I suspect that any of them who have a passing acquantaince with the evidence actually know the truth but would rather not acknowledge it.)
So which sort are you? Stupid or greedy?
The key word is "global" ass hat. This is not a liberal American conspiracy (I know you fundies have a hard enough time grasping that there's different types of people beyond Texas, let alone this country); it's pretty obvious to scientists across the world that the world is indeed experiencing some serious climate change.
I'd cite some support for this, but it wouldn't make any difference to a fuck stick like you anyway, so why waste the time.
Stonespiral: "I'm sorry, even if you're right and it is a hoax what is wrong with trying to keep our environment green?
I never got that point. Why is aggressive industrialization, damn the consequences, more important than having a clean place to live?"
Thank you! I've never gotten that argument either. Even if I have some questions about the severity of human-induced climate change, I don't see why we shouldn't try to be ecologically conservative anyway. These fundies seem to think that we have unlimited resources, so if they're not as actively harmful as we thought we should just use them like there's no tomorrow. Except that they are finite, and even if they weren't it would still be a good idea to reduce the amount we change the environment.
I've often thought of it like someone who eats a horrible diet- even if they find out that they haven't harmed their body as much as they thought, that doesn't mean they shouldn't try to watch what they eat, because they could still make things worse in the future and being healthy is not something to be avoided.
Climate change is a deliberate ploy by the New World Order/Commie/Facist/Atheist/Reptilian/Nazi/Feminist/Homosexual bloc conceived in order to subvert democracy, shrink comfort zones, shatter complacency, confound the status quo and piss off Americans. It seems to be working.
Mayne the only good thing about a higher concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is that it limits the size of insects. However, the greenhouse effect means that more of them survive the winter. Unless we get some serious freezes soon, we can count on a bumper crop of skeeter and ticks in 2012. I think these anti-science nuts wouldn't care if their own kids got dengue fever.
Today the Frazer Institute was drooling all over our newspapers about the "final blow to the already discredited theory of global warming" and used the same arguments.
Now I know why. If the craziest, most bigotted and plain stupid candidate from down south said it, they HAVE to believe it!
Erm... fun fact, the UK is one of the few countries that might actually get COLDER due to changing CO2 concentration (Gulf Stream and all that, although it'd probably be temporary). It's February. It snowed for the first time since last January yesterday.
Sadly, Europe's current big freeze will probably help to convince these idiots that they are right after all.
Never mind that last autumn Europe was hotter than hell in midsummer. I know, I was there. 29 degrees Centigrade in Paris at 6:30 in the evening in October? No, that's not warmer than normal at all...(sarcasm).
Any global warming caused by CO2 is likely to be mild and “an overall benefit to the planet.”
...Unless you happen to live in the tropics, one of the many parts of the world that will become an arid desert where very little can grow, near a major coastline along low-lying land, in one of the many countries too poor to adapt to major changes in food supply and growing conditions, or you're in a position to be affected by one of numerous diseases such as malaria which will spreading far and fast because their natural vector just loves higher temperatures, in which case, you're about to get it in the pants.
@#1373626: 4/10. You'd have gotten a higher score except that you immediately led off with the "God is behind it!" gambit. You don't START OFF that strong right out of the chute--you have to start out sounding *almost* reasonable, then tease the readers a little, and then you slooooowly ramp up the insanity until just at the end you're sounding like you're a mental patient scrawling your post on toilet paper with a crayon. Remember, trolling is an art form. Still, good use of all-caps and exclamation points. I believe you may become a master yet.
"The most obvious of these facts is that it hasn’t gotten any warmer in over a decade."
What the fuck did you do to determine that? Walk outside and shrug "Meh, feels the same as the last ten years"?
Your personal opinion means nothing.
He says there is no global warming, but then is stupid enough to say:
"Any global warming caused by CO2 is likely to be mild and “an overall benefit to the planet.”
Are you serious?
@kill youself: yes. If it's beneficial, it's happening and awesome. If it's harmful, THEN it's totally not happening, no matter whether reality stubbornly insists or not. Such are the ways of teahadists.
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