Posted on 05/17/2014 4:03:09 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
... Think of it this way: Once upon a time it was possible to take climate change seriously while remaining a Republican in good standing. Today, listening to climate scientists gets you excommunicated - hence Rubio's statement, which was effectively a partisan pledge of allegiance.
And truly crazy positions are becoming the norm. A decade ago, only the GOP's extremist fringe asserted that global warming was a hoax concocted by a vast global conspiracy of scientists (although even then that fringe included some powerful politicians). Today, such conspiracy theorizing is mainstream within the party, and rapidly becoming mandatory; witch hunts against scientists reporting evidence of warming have become standard procedure, and skepticism about climate science is turning into hostility toward science in general.
It's hard to see what could reverse this growing hostility to inconvenient science. As I said, the process of intellectual devolution seems to have reached a point of no return. And that scares me more than the news about that ice sheet.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
If Paul Krugman writes a column and nobody reads it, is he still always wrong?
Oh...wait...
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“GOP has reached point of no return on climate”
One can only hope.
Global warming is real. How can anyone deny it?
It is plain to see that it has gotten progressively warmer over the past several weeks and all indications are that it will continue for at least the next three months! Perhaps longer. Even.
After the war on health with Obamacare, now the war on climate... tell me they do not invent cops
Deranged article.
Deranged dude.
“....Deranged article....”
From deranged man. It’s Krugman. The man is a POS.
Not worthy enough to line a bird cage...
I think Krugman is PERFECT to line the birdcage...
Or a urinal. Or a bidet. Or a toilet. Or a stable.
“....says the debate is over....”
I think not.
“The science is settled, the experts agree”
We need to identify a “point of no return” day. After that we can all move north and inland with Krugman, stay where we are or do whatever we want free of these daily pronouncements.
Science is based on continuous testing of all observations, speculations and data in an objective manner to find the Truth.
Politics is based on the tribal emotion that my tribe’s ideas are better than your tribe’s ideas with no objective testing by either tribe to determine the Truth.
Among the many political speculations that have yet to have demonstrated a known cause and effect are Global Warming, Global Cooling, Climate Change for the worse, or Climate Change for the better, with “better” defined politically, of course.
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1.) IF we assume that CO2 is the root problem to Global Warming and Climate Change, THEN consider what would happen if atmospheric CO2 were, somehow, to be eliminated:
The process of Photosynthesis, defined chemically as follows:
6CO2 + 6H2O + (n)photons = C6H12O6 + 6CO2
would cease to generate carbohydrates, (C6H12O6), for most plants and the animals that eat the plants and eat the animals that eat the plants.
2.) To the best of my research, there has never been a cause and effect experiment that establishes that a change* in the concentration of CO2 has had a measurable effect on the temperature of the air.
*Note: at atmospheric concentrations of CO2 approximating maximum to minimum living conditions for most plants.
3.) All known published speculations on the effect of CO2 on temperature are based on the false assumption, as proven by # 2 above, that there is a measurable effect of the change in atmospheric concentration of CO2 on the temperature of the atmosphere.
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After only 3 weeks at his new job, fellow Swedish Scientists harassed Dr. Bengtsson into resigning from a prestigious think-tank on climate change.
It is Scientists such as Dr. Lennart Bengtsson who are willing to oppose the peer pressure of emotion-based politics, and stand, resolute, for what can be proven by fact-based Science.
Such men inspire other Scientists to continue the never ending search for Truth, regardless of the severity of peer-pressure inquisition at the time.
As we look to our own US Society, now in the watershed battle between the adherents of the original, empirical-based, US Constitution, and the proponents of emotion-based Socialism, let us pause now and then to refresh our courage by remembering the bravery of men such as true Scientist Dr. Lennart Bengtsson.
The “consensus” is settled, the douchebags agree.
Nothing is settled.
I like that idea. It coincides with my mocking "theory" that space aliens committed 911.
Mr. Krugman: I fart in your general direction, notwithstanding the climate damage my methane causes.
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