Posted on 03/13/2010 4:54:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
2012 is a movie, the end of the Mayan calendar, maybe the end of the Earth. But, thankfully, it's all a myth. Or is it? The 2012 phenomenon gets a new spin from Lawrence M. Krauss in the March 2010 issue of Scientific American. The bottom line: 2012 could be the beginning of the end if we don't take steps to combat climate change, and call out naysayers like Sarah "You Can See Russia from Alaska" Palin.
Krauss, a theoretical physicist and science commentator, is director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University. Scientific American is far from a supermarket tabloid.
Krauss starts out by dismissing the 2012 scare as "an unfounded fringe religious prophecy" that's been exploited by the 2012 movie, which saw its DVD release on March 2.
But Sarah Palin may be the same type of menace that the legends have foretold, Krauss says. After all, she may run for the White House in 2012, and she was against an international agreement during 2009's United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
"On the conclusion of the less than stellar Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change in December, ex-governor and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who many think may make a White House run herself in 2012, twittered the world with the following: "arrogant&naive2say man over pwers nature"
Palin's tweet could be dismissed as another religious end-of-days argument, Krauss continues. But there are signs all over that man has already overpowered nature, despite Palin's belief that God will guard the planet and decide when it's time for us to go.
Those include the power of humans to eradicate various species from the Earth, destroy large tracts of rainforests, overfish the oceans and, yes, drive climate change by burning fossil fuels.
Just some food for thought. Oh yeh, Krauss has a book coming out this year called "Quantum Man." It probably won't outsell "Going Rogue."
No, they were crazy long before Gov. Palin arrived on the scene.
They don’t need to be driven crazy. They already were crazy to begin with.
I stopped reading scientific american a long time ago, as they have 0.0 objectivity in political matters such as climate change. The last issue I read was during the 2004 elections, when they were weighing how awesome john kerry was for the environment, versus how horrible george bush was. In the article the referred to “Senator Kerry” about 20 times, and referred simply to “Bush” about 20 times. The honorific “Senator” was always used for Kerry, but the honorific “President” was not once used for Bush. After that and the endless cheerleading for every terrestial article always having something to do global warming, I simply gave up completely.
my tax dollars and my kids sharp tuition increase is going for that? good grief has my alma mater changed.
I'd be willing to bet he couldn't come up with the actual source of that quote.
Thats all I needed to see before calling BS.
OMG!! Sarah Palin 2012: TEOTWAWKI, Sarahgeddon!!
I can see the movie trailer now...
“...in a world (mandatory opening) where skinning innocent moose replaces protest marches as the best way to “hook up”, your ipods can no longer save you, government concentration camps dominate the landscape, and Federal zombies are called “twitterers”; one woman from a remote and barren land emerged from the bloody health-care wars that opened the 21st century....Her name came from the Bible, and her connection to the ancients would transcend even her most ardent supporters.”
LMAO
Your “science” is as accurate as your quote of Pain “seeing Russia from Alaska”...
Only in the leftest world is Saturday Night Live the real world...
People like this author are going to be very unhappy during the next several elections.
Can I buy an “l”...
Make that “... quote of Palin ...”
LOL! You CAN see Russia from Alaska.
Actually you can see Russia from Alaska. She didn’t say it of course. That was Tina Fey and she said “I can see Russia from my house”. But the actual coast of Russia is visible from certain places in Alaska. It would be fun to take this jerk to Alaska and point out Russia and ask him “now whats that”?!
Lawrence M. Krauss is a scientist? Sounds more like a pagan earth worshiper.
No, that wasn't Sarah Palin saying she could see Russia from her roof.
Fact is, you actually can see a Russian Island in the straits ~ from an Alaska Island located nearby (http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/59/124859-004-904DAF30.jpg).
One of those phenomena of nature ~ stand in one place, see another.
So why should I read statements made by this Krauss guy when it's pretty clear his mind no longer works.
Does he wear a portable urine pouch perhaps?
“It would be fun to take this jerk to Alaska and point out Russia and ask him “now whats that”?!”
Better yet, offer him a small boat to go over there and find out. He’s a scientist. Let him explore.
You can see Russia from Alaska.
Diomede Islands. One is Russian, the other is Alaskan.
I have thousands of trees on my hideaway. Treehuggers are welcome to hug them all in the company of some very angry wild boars that hang out here most of the time. I’d rather battle a bear as these extremely tough hogs.
Palin's tweet could be dismissed as another religious end-of-days argument, Krauss continues.
I'm trying, but I'm really failing, to see how Mrs. Palin's tweet is an "end-of-days" argument.
In fact, all I'm seeing is a huge non sequitur in Krauss' statement.
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