Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 03/01/2010 5:42:51 AM PST by Libloather
South Duh-kota, hang your head in shame
Posted on: February 25, 2010 3:57 PM, by PZ Myers
The South Dakota senate has been wrestling over an important resolution, HCR 1009. Here's the original text. It will look rather familiar to anyone who has seen creationist bills roll through a legislature.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the House of Representatives of the Eighty-fifth Legislature of the State of South Dakota, the Senate concurring therein, that the South Dakota Legislature urges that instruction in the public schools relating to global warming include the following:
(1) That global warming is a scientific theory rather than a proven fact;
(2) That there are a variety of climatological, meteorological, astrological, thermological, cosmological, and ecological dynamics that can effect [sic] world weather phenomena and that the significance and interrelativity of these factors is largely speculative; and
(3) That the debate on global warming has subsumed political and philosophical viewpoints which have complicated and prejudiced the scientific investigation of global warming phenomena; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Legislature urges that all instruction on the theory of global warming be appropriate to the age and academic development of the student and to the prevailing classroom circumstances.
Notice the "just a theory" clause, and the "alternative theories" clause (which includes "astrological"! and "thermological," whatever that is), and the "just an opinion" clause. That is one jaw-droppingly stupid resolution.
**SNIP**
They missed the irony of passing a political resolution protesting the politicization of a scientific issue, however. It's still just a gang of conservative politicians trying to force equal consideration for discredited alternative nonsense in the public schools.
I'm still wondering if any South Dakota teachers will be presenting the astrological evidence against climate change in their classrooms, though.
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Gotta love it.
Holy hot plate,,,,batman....
On global warming, however, he doesn't have a fin to stand on.
Cheers!
Can’t have it get warmer in SD.
PZ Myers is a good example of the “Chihuahua Principle” - little shrimps tend to be the ones that are the loudest and most obnoxious.
I have got to remember that one!! Love it!
I don’t believe that it ever went beyond the hypothesis stage. To reach the theory stage requires quite a bit of accurate evidence that appears irrefutable.
Of course global warming is like a lot of laws passed by congress. Good for their pockets and makes liberals feel good.
Absolutely nothing “proves” Global Warming is happening or that mankind has anything to do with it. There is evidence that we are warming naturally, albeit very very slowly, because we are still exiting the last ice age.
Liberals weren’t taught scientific method in fifth grade, because that is above their ability level.
He's a Biologist and Biologists know all about Astronomy, Cosmology, Physics and Einsteins' General Theory of Relativity re: space-time (gravity). You know things that actually have an effect on our solar system, the earth, our orbit and the Earth's axis of rotation, our little 'wobble', all the things that affect our climate.
Uh ... wait a sec ..... no they don't.
Biologists know about plants, seeds, trees, and that 'Flora and Fauna' stuff.
Never mind. /s
If they could prove what caused the Medieval warming period and the Little Ice Age of the 1800s and say that those causes are not happening now, that would improve the standing of their anthropogenic global warming theory. Instead they tried to cover up the existence of those historic examples of pre-industrialization climate variations which just makes the rest of their theory that much weaker. If your model doesn’t accurately predict the present or the past with data from further in the past, they how can it be relied on to predict the future?
If we can’t advance it based on the merits, our fallback position is to advance it on what is fashionable with the self-selected opinion leaders.
This is rather amusing. The blogger who is reporting this inserts "sic" after the word "effect" is used as a verb, implying that its use is incorrect and pointing out that this is the original quote and the author recognizes it as a mistake. Typically the difference between "effect" and "affect" is that effect is usually a noun, and affect is usually a verb. If, however, one looks only at that aspect, and assumes that it was a mistake because "effect" is used as a verb rather than a noun, one can embarrass oneself. "Effect" can be a verb when it is used in the sense of "to cause" or "to bring about". For example, a new policy can "effect a change", or "many factors can effect various phenomena"
January 26, 1989
U.S. Data Since 1895 Fail To Show Warming Trend
By PHILIP SHABECOFF, Special to the New York Times
Correction Appended
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 After examining climate data extending back nearly 100 years, a team of Government scientists has concluded that there has been no significant change in average temperatures or rainfall in the United States over that entire period.
While the nation’s weather in individual years or even for periods of years has been hotter or cooler and drier or wetter than in other periods, the new study shows that over the last century there has been no trend in one direction or another.
The study, made by scientists for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was published in the current issue of Geophysical Research Letters. It is based on temperature and precipitation readings taken at weather stations around the country from 1895 to 1987.
from: www.nytimes.com/1989/01/26/us/us-data-since-1895-fail-to-show-warming-trend.html?pagewanted=1&pagewanted=print
He is one of several reasons that this U of Minnesota alumnus does not contribute one dime.
I thought that name rang a familiar bell, and you just described the ring. Hardly a credible, objective source for anything as far as I'm concerned...
the infowarrior
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