Yeah, this conservative group wants both sides of the climate change issue taught. Sounds a lot like, ‘teach the controversy’ (intelligent design taught alongside evolution) to me. When a spokeswoman was asked, on MSNBC, how old were the children in this study, she dodged the question.
Christian Groups: Biblical Armageddon Must Be Taught Alongside Global Warming
NASA-GISS data show that the past 12 months were the hottest 12-month period on record.
…So much for the “global cooling” talking point. What I’m wondering is what excuse the deniers will come up with.
continue reading… Paul Krugman
Bill Maher battles republican pundit and Climate Change denier Amy Holmes
Bill Maher: I’m sorry I’m getting too emotional about this issue. I just want to live…. people are just looking for an excuse not to have to worry about this. But that’s just sticking your head in the sand. That’s having a problem with reality…
Amy Holmes:..But I don’t agree that the science is settled. I do think that there is still a raging debate. And when we are talking about the consequence of following this policy being something like trillions of dollars, you know as well as I do that China and India and developing nations are not gonna sign on to this…
Bill Maher: Yeah they did. No, this week they said we are on board with Copenhagen, yeah they did.
Amy Holmes: Copenhagen was a failure for this president because everyone is kicking it down the road.
Bill Maher: You know, you need a time machine to make that argument. That China is the one dragging their feet. That was a good argument three years ago. It’s not true anymore.
Amy Holmes: I don’t see it happening.
Bill Maher: Well you don’t read.
complete segment above. skip to this part of the exchange here (5:33).
“You’d be an idiot not to notice the temperature change.”
Glenn Beck - USA Weekend interview
is this what they mean when they say it’s better to be honest because it’s tough to remember too many lies?
“With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore.”
Donald Trump on climate change via NYPost
Carrie Prejean agreed with The Donald calling it, “opposite global warming.”
“Absolutely! I think they made some movie that showed that the earth was going to freeze over as a result of global warming. I never quite understood that but you know I didn’t stand real high in my Naval Academy class.”
John McCain proud of his stupidity and ignorance.
I spared you the Hannity nonsense he was responding to. If you enjoy torture help yourself: video here
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“That is simple observational research,” “Whatever just happened is the only thing that’s happening.”
“Ask any peek-a-boo-ologist.”
“Which leads me to my next terrifying weather alert,” “According to my dopplest 9000, it’s dark outside.”
“Based on this latest data, I can only assume that the sun has been destroyed.”
”Stephen Colbert
oh those folksy republicans they’re so cute.
“Snowstorms Seem To Contradict Al Gore’s Hysterical Global Warming Theories” - Sean Hannity
“A lot of people believe that the only way for a country to get rich, stay rich, and get richer is to burn more carbon fuel. If that’s factually accurate, some people think, then even if global warming is a problem, we won’t address it before there’s a calamity because people are not going to agree to make themselves poorer. It’s easy for me to say that. If you cut my income 10 percent I’d still be in great shape, and my daughter would be all right, and everything would be fine. But you can’t ask people who can’t pay their grocery bills to, in effect, [take a] pay cut to solve this problem.”
- Fmr. President Bill Clinton, on why some problems are just downright hard to solve
(From our ‘Interview Issue’)
(via newsweek)
Sarah Palin’s op-ed on climate change was the newspaper’s [WaPo] most-linked op-ed of the year
Greg Sargent [WaPo, The Plum Line] reveals, a fact he rightly calls “dispiriting.” He also observes:
A lot of this is probably driven by heavy outside linkage. But still, the fact that Sarah Palin, of all people, is able to command such attention for her views on the science of climate change, of all things, is kind of amazing.
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Q: Global warming, you say the earth is cooling. Michael how do you know for sure?
STEELE: I don’t! I don’t! But apparently neither does anybody else! Ok? I don’t. All i know is every morning I come on, I turn on channel 13 and I’ll see what the weather man tells me okay?
”RNC Chair Michael Steele
ABC’s David Wright Distorting Jon Stewart’s Remarks on Global Warming
“Well, you know, the — the global warming deniers persist in this air of unreality. After all, the entire north polar icecap, which has been there for most of the last 3 million years, is disappearing before our eyes. Forty percent is already gone. The rest is expected to go completely within the next decade. What do they think is causing this?”
Al Gore
