Dem senator: Humans causing climate change, saying otherwise is 'bogus'

The Hill ^ | June 14, 2012 | Pete Kasperowicz

[Free ThinkerNY]

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) declared on the Senate floor Thursday that the debate over whether humans are causing climate change is over, and that it has been shown conclusively that human activity is leading to global warming.

"People say there are questions about the theory," he said. "No, there are not.

"The argument that the jury is still out on climate change is a false and bogus argument," he added. "The jury is not out. In fact, the jury is in, the effects are obvious, they surround us every day, and we need to take action."

Whitehouse said the theory that warmth creates a moist atmosphere that traps heat has been around since the Civil War. "That's been basic textbook science for a century," he said. "It's never been controverted. It's a law, essentially, of science."

[kcvl]

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[JaguarXKE]

It's never been controverted. It's a law, essentially, of science."

And he has a law degree, so he knows about laws!

[SWAMPSNIPER]

He is from NYC and a democrat, that’s all I need to know about him.

[Baynative]

Is there such a thing as politically caused insanity?

[Boogieman]

"Humans causing climate change, saying otherwise is 'bogus'"

Glad to hear that Gerard Depardieu has come to his senses and joined our side in saying humans don't cause climate change!

[Puckster]

Yes Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, and the foundation of AGW is base upon computer models:

Article: http://opinion.financialpost.com/2012/06/13/junk-science-week-climate-models-fail-reality-test/

A 2011 study in the Journal of Forecasting took the same data set and compared model predictions against a “random walk*” alternative, consisting simply of using the last period’s value in each location as the forecast for the next period’s value in that location. The test measures the sum of errors relative to the random walk. A perfect model gets a score of zero, meaning it made no errors. A model that does no better than a random walk gets a score of 1. A model receiving a score above 1 did worse than uninformed guesses. Simple statistical forecast models that have no climatology or physics in them typically got scores between 0.8 and 1, indicating slight improvements on the random walk, though in some cases their scores went as high as 1.8.
The climate models, by contrast, got scores ranging from 2.4 to 3.7, indicating a total failure to provide valid forecast information at the regional level, even on long time scales. The authors commented: “This implies that the current [climate] models are ill-suited to localized decadal predictions, even though they are used as inputs for policymaking.”

The evidence is solid.......ly corrupt.

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[Boogieman]

Well, that settles it then, he is a mouthpiece for evil capitalist one percenters!

[Woodsman27]

The pro global warming folks have a lot of cute little graphs, maps, and cherry picked numbers but I want to see actual and undeniable proof before taking any action. Could it actually be proven that all of these horrible things the bleeding heart left bleet on about are true then everyone would support finding ways to stop it. Problem for them is that the evidence is not compelling and enough people correctly see what is going on as an attempt to attack the capitalistic system and freedom.

[Secret Agent Man]

MY reply:

It has been conclusively proven that certain humans are faking climate change data to push a radically extreme environmental and social agenda on the rest of the world. Anyone who says different is bogus.

[roadcat]

Democrat liberals are idiots, this proves it. Are humans causing global warming on Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, etc.? It’s our solar system’s Sun! Whenever the Earth is warming, so are the other planets. Been going on for billions of years, long before humans arrived.

[justa-hairyape]

So humans are making the planet too cold ?

Sweden’s reindeer on the verge of extinction because it’s too cold

[jonrick46]

This is also an election tactic. The DemonRATs must invent a boogieman to incite the unwashed masses to hate Republicans. Using pseudoscience to support their strategy is nothing new in their “ends justifies the means” value system. When you come from a value system of moral relativism, you do anything to win.

[wjcsux]

This guy is almost as much of an A-hole as Chucky Schumer.

[Eva]

There’s a war going on in the Democrat Party right now, between the union wing of the party and the green wing. Obama has been trying to do a balancing act between the two, counting on the green wing to vote for him no matter what, kind of like when he sided with the defense of marriage in 2008 against the gays.

Right now, Obama is going with the unions, trying support the export of coal and farm products through “Gateways” on both coasts. It’s not the coal or the farm products that he is necessarily supporting though, it’s the building of ports and terminals to export America’s natural resources and food stuffs to developing countries where the manufacturing will take place.

Obama says that his second term will be dedicated to clean energy and anti-nuclear proliferation. So, the Greens should stick with him for another 4 years.

Obama’s union goals are dependent on big federal investments in ports, terminals and trains, as detailed in the Senate version of the Transportation re-investment and renewal act, which was DOA in the House and hopefully will stay dead. No silver bullet yet though, not with Boehner as Speaker.

[pallis]

The sad part is that he believes what he is saying.

[Talisker]

During the passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Whitehouse cautioned that conservative opposition to the bill was moving toward historical incidences of mob violence, saying “Too many colleagues are embarked on a desperate, no-holds-barred mission of propaganda, obstruction and fear. . . . History cautions us of the excesses to which these malignant, vindictive passions can ultimately lead. Tumbrils have rolled through taunting crowds. Broken glass has sparkled in darkened streets. Strange fruit has hung from southern trees.”

My God, even among Rats he's a maniac.

[Brad from Tennessee]

[Obama’s union goals are dependent on big federal investments in ports, terminals and trains, as detailed in the Senate version of the Transportation re-investment and renewal act, which was DOA in the House and hopefully will stay dead. No silver bullet yet though, not with Boehner as Speaker.]

Dodd-Frank, the Affordable Health Care Act, the stalled Cap-and-Trade bill all create monolithic bureaucracies whose rank and file will fill union treasuries and vote mostly Democrat. If a new Republican majority is elected it must dismantle these monstrosities or they'll drag what's left of the economy and our freedoms into a black hole.

[Doogle]

...full blown libtard Odungo a&&kisser (co-conspirator).

[ronnie raygun]

Can’t give it up, when the evidence is thier for all to see the morons remain comfortable being morons unable to make a logical conclusion when given the facts, this is a representative of the people?

[muir_redwoods]

"Whitehouse said the theory that warmth creates a moist atmosphere that traps heat has been around since the Civil War. "That's been basic textbook science for a century," he said. "It's never been controverted. It's a law, essentially, of science."

No, it's not a law of science and, even if it were, is this naïf aware that Einstein corrected Newton's laws of motion?

And if humans caused the warming, how did they cause the warming 10,000 years ago that melted the half mile of ice covering this clowns home state of Rhode Island?