Posted on 08/22/2011 4:22:30 PM PDT by Kaslin
Whatever global warming might or might not have done to polar bears, it has put Rick Perry's presidential candidacy at risk.
The Texas governor clings to an ice flow of diminishing credibility, emerging in just about a week's time as intellectually unqualified to be president. He engaged in a brief dialogue with a child about evolution and came out the loser. Perry said there are some gaps in the theory. If so, he is one.
Maybe more important, Perry waxed wrongly on global warming. He rejected the notion that it is at least partially a product of industrialization, asserting that "a substantial number of scientists have manipulated data" to make it appear that mankind — our cars, trains, automobiles, not to mention China's belching steel mills — is the culprit.
He said that an increasing number of scientists have challenged this notion and that, in conclusion, he stood with them — whoever they might be. In Appleton, Wis., Sen. Joe McCarthy's skeleton rattled a bit.
The late and hardly lamented demagogue pioneered the political use of the concocted statistic. In his case, it was communists and they were, literally, everywhere. There were some, of course, just as there are some scientists who are global warming skeptics, but these few — about 2% of climate researchers — could hold their annual meeting in a phone booth, if there are any left. (Perhaps 2% of scientists think there are.)
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Good job, Richard - you made sure no rabid left-wing liberals will vote for Perry.
Bwahahahaha!
Cohen should be a looney tune character....=.=
Alas, the weather is not running for office.
In general Americans don't vote for politicians on the basis of their scientific knowledge ~ else the Algore would never have been Vice President.
way to go Perry - I get tired of extreme left wing ideas defining the way “middle” America is suppose to think. Global warming is a hoax made up from a pervert Algore and a bunch scientists on the NSF payroll
Oh baloney. Have Huntsman’s numbers spiked since he started beating this dead horse?
Didn’t think so.
Yet, they will vote for them based on what they believe about science-related issues.
Millions supported Obama because he supported climate change legislation.
MSM wishful thinking ping.
Nobody in the REAL world gives a crap about the whole global warming lie! Rush was the first to call out those “scientists” that even found their emails calling their own out on said LIE! Perry is the ONLY CANDIDATE with enough balls to come right out and say what most of us actually know - it’s just another SCAM by the liberals!
OH THAT’S IT
Perry just eliminated 17% of the electorate by his comments, it is official, Perry is not going to get any Communist or Socialist Workers Party Votes if he becomes the Republican Nominee.
He also is going to loose the .012% of the electorate that the theory of evolution explains everything removing all mystery of how the universe came to be (in other words how matter came into existence)
Count me as a scientist skeptic.
I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen the catch-phrase “because of global warming” inserted into a scientific paper, no matter what the phenomenon being observed is. That doesn’t make the observation a result of global warming!
Actual empirical evidence of the global warming hypothesis (I won’t call it a theory; it doesn’t have the factual basis) is fairly sparse.
Most Americans are skepticle of global warming. Dick here should be well aware. The true diehard believers that want the quack laws and regulations are very fiew. The people in the center, I think, still fear burdonsome job killing laws over something that MIGHT exist. Poopooing global warming is something that will get him votes
Prove it, Richard.
You global warming creeps get reeeeeal nervous when your fraudulent cash-cow is threatened.
Global warming is currently being used as the crisis requiring implementation of Sustainable (densified) Communities and the federal take over of water resources. You can see it here http://users.sisqtel.net/armstrng/agenda21.htm (Go half way down for a glimpse of the Obama agenda and then take a look at what is happening in California further on down the page.)
CFR-Rick will say anything you want him to say, be anything you want him to be.
Leftwingers have a puritanism issue with the environment, smoking, anger, racism and other “sulfuring” issues
It is obvious they are stuck up PBS/NPR pseudo-aristocrates who are dying to be able to fart in the air but are afraid to look the part.
You also give them meat and stuff difficult to come by for some to have, and they will make an issue of it, because it affects their free buying consciousness. They must have a drink or a huge groupie of their own retards behind them to be able to do anything.
I have never seen weaker mentality than these Veganic disgusting ungreatful spoiled brain weak retards.
They do not like second hand smoke, so they do like attacks even in their names against other enemies, it breathes in their neck of woods too close and it upsets them. But if it is to join a bunch of savage Che Gevaras or Islamofascists who do it “culturaly”, it is ok.
These people are the biggest hypocrites and racists, because they are dying to gain the power and the empowerment that will give them one day the feeling of ability to trash everything around and act obsenely the way Clinton “liberated” them with Monica.
That’s the liberal hero legacy for you, coming out of the closet or getting that blow job respected because you have a cop badge or the legacy of narcissistic presiders.
I tell you what, these people are insane and dangerous. THey are the ticking bomb of America.
I had this evolution / creationism conversation recently with a neighbor.
I told them, “You realize they aren’t even describing the same thing?”
He asked “What do you mean? Aren’t they answering the same question?”
“No, one is a theory of how Humans, Animals, and Plants developed into their modern forms. And the other is how everything came into existence. They aren’t close to being the same thing.”
Next time this comes up in conversation, make sure to point this out. We are arguing apples and oranges.
The Intelligent Design is really the only theory that is directly comparable to evolution.
He didn't out and out say it's a fraud, but he expressed doubts and said he doesn't want to throw huge dollars after what may be junk science.
I'm very comfortable with that stance.
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