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Is This What The Climate-Change Debate Has Come To? (Moonbat alert!)
The New Republic ^ | February 10, 2011 | Bradford Plumer

Posted on 02/14/2011 7:09:44 PM PST by neverdem

Congressional Republicans choose to just ignore science and attack the EPA.



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agw; climatechange; globalwarming
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

[Is this what the climate-change debate has come to?]

It was the Left—Al Gore being the most visible and bombastic—who turned climate science into a vehicle to advance socialism.


41 posted on 02/14/2011 10:40:44 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Brytani

Nope, it’s the fries, man! The FRIES!!!!

:-P


42 posted on 02/15/2011 3:14:15 AM PST by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: kcvl
A picture really is worth a thousand words, isn't it? A thousand worthless words in this instance....
43 posted on 02/15/2011 4:23:04 AM PST by Mygirlsmom (What used to be called treason is now official US foreign policy.)
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To: neverdem

Because he could find no smokestacks, the author chose to issustrate his piece with cooling towers. Cooling towers don’t pollute and don’t emit carbon. Cooling towers are the sybbol of nuclear power and therefore bad so something bad is ok even if it is a lie

The author lied


44 posted on 02/15/2011 4:26:27 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
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To: neverdem

Bradford Plumer
Looking at this *kid*. His pic reminds of that old saying someone famous once said:
Youth is wasted on the young.

Or to put it another way...


Go Away Son, You Bother Me.

45 posted on 02/15/2011 4:58:17 AM PST by Condor51 (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Congressman. But I repeat myself. [Mark Twain])
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To: neverdem

The Climategate reviews were (at least in one case) done by rigged panels with a vested interest in the outcome, IIRC.


46 posted on 02/15/2011 5:15:57 AM PST by sauropod (The truth shall make you free but first it will make you miserable.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I love to be preached to by an unqualified nitwit with a predisposition of self importance.


47 posted on 02/15/2011 6:09:10 AM PST by Ouderkirk (Democrats...the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy, and Sedition)
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To: neverdem
And, in his own opening statement, an exasperated Representative Henry Waxman of California tried to warn his fellow Republicans,

Smart writer there. I needed a good laugh this morning.

48 posted on 02/15/2011 6:32:53 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (America has two cancers - democrats and RINOS.)
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To: neverdem

You know what’s really funny and ironic about the picture in the article?

They obviously are trying to say that that “smoke” coming out of those towers is “pollution” that is causing climate change.

It’s doubly ironic that the “smoke” is really just water vapor from cooling towers, but that [naturally produced] water vapor makes up somewhere on the order of 98% of the “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere.


49 posted on 02/15/2011 6:36:22 AM PST by MrB (Tagline suspended for important announcement on my home page. Click my handle.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“science, falsely so called”

1 Tim 6:20, KJV


50 posted on 02/15/2011 6:37:22 AM PST by MrB (Tagline suspended for important announcement on my home page. Click my handle.)
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To: Baynative

“Here’s how you can matter - you can care about the erf”

it’s quite a siren song for spiritual beings with a built in need to worship and have a relationship with their Creator


51 posted on 02/15/2011 6:38:57 AM PST by MrB (Tagline suspended for important announcement on my home page. Click my handle.)
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To: TXnMA

The funny thing is, nuclear power would “solve” the problem that they’re concerned about.

There are no “carbon emissions” from a nuclear power plant.


52 posted on 02/15/2011 6:41:13 AM PST by MrB (Tagline suspended for important announcement on my home page. Click my handle.)
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To: MrB
The funny thing is, nuclear power would “solve” the problem that they’re concerned about.

It would solve the problem they SAY they are concerned about, yes.

It actually exacerbates their real concern, which is why they're against it.

53 posted on 02/15/2011 8:39:16 AM PST by thulldud (Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
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To: thulldud

Yes, I need to watch the precision of my language.
Their real issue is about controlling people,
and they can’t do that if we have access to cheap energy.


54 posted on 02/15/2011 8:44:42 AM PST by MrB (Tagline suspended for important announcement on my home page. Click my handle.)
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To: MrB
Their real issue is about controlling people, and they can’t do that if we have access to cheap energy.

And as long as we have access to information and the ability to call them out on their hypocrisy.

55 posted on 02/15/2011 9:06:10 AM PST by thulldud (Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
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To: Mister Da
That's fine for Californians, but Canadians & Siberians might prefer a little warmer climate.

I live in Virginia and I wouldn't mind a little less winter and a little more summer.

56 posted on 02/15/2011 10:27:45 AM PST by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
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To: JeffB

Good post, analogous “climate catastrophe” has happened in the middle ages, the 1800’s, the 1930’s and even the 1970’s. Floods will happen so we need dams, not just for hypothetically more rainfall. Storms have always happened and “superstorms” are not really possible due to limits in fluid dynamics.


57 posted on 02/15/2011 10:32:34 AM PST by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
Bradford Plumer is an associate editor at The New Republic.

There are serious scholars who spend there lifetimes engaged in the study of topics about which they are never half as certain about anything as members of the MSM are about everything.

Although they might be convinced that Mr. Plumer has no idea what he is talking about.

58 posted on 02/15/2011 12:36:21 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Socialists are to economics what circle squarers are to math; undaunted by reason or derision.)
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To: truthguy; E. Pluribus Unum
Mr. Bradford, are there any set of events or conditions that could disprove global-warming/climate-change?

As soon as the theory becomes unpopular in Provincetown. Then he will embrace whatever is trendy next. As Karl Popper pointed out, the ultimate test of the validity of a scientific theory is whatever the editorial board of the New York Times says it is.

59 posted on 02/15/2011 12:46:27 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Socialists are to economics what circle squarers are to math; undaunted by reason or derision.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Mr. Bradford, are there any set of events or conditions that could disprove global-warming/climate-change?

Nope, and that's why it's a fraud.

One cornerstone of the scientific method is that for a theory to be scientifically valid, it has to be falsifiable. For instance, a theory that says that the moon is made of the kind of green cheese that turns into solid rock, if anyone comes in contact with it, is not valid, because it does not allow for its being proven false. Neither would a theory that says whatever weather conditions, even contradictory ones, are due to man made global warming.

60 posted on 02/15/2011 3:26:42 PM PST by raisetheroof ("To become Red is to become dead --- gradually." Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
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