Climate Change Denier Likely to Lead Congressional Science Committee

[unhappycamper]

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/11/14/climate-change-denier-likely-to-lead-congressional-science-committee/




Climate Change Denier Likely to Lead Congressional Science Committee
By Christine Gorman | November 14, 2012

Republican Party leaders in the House of Representatives will decide whether Representatives Lamar Smith of Texas, James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin or Dana Rohrabacher of California will succeed Ralph Hall, also of Texas, as chair of the House Committee. Because of term limits, Hall cannot continue heading the group, which has jurisdiction over energy research, NASA, the National Weather Service and the National Science Foundation, among other things.

“The (ABC, NBC and CBS television) networks have shown a steady pattern of bias on climate change. During a six-month period, four out of five network news reports failed to acknowledge any dissenting opinions about global warming, according to a Business and Media Institute study.

“Climategate revealed that climate science is less about honest debate than ideological warfare. Despite the relentless push to dismiss the emails and to clear the scientists involved, the leaked emails can only be honestly read as an exposure of partisanship among climate change scientists. For that reason, it tainted not only the science but the investigations that would follow as groups scrambled to exonerate the scientists involved and to minimize the impact of their words.”

“In my lifetime, there has been no greater example of this threat [the military-industrial complex], which Eisenhower warned us about, than the insidious coalition of research science and political largesse–a coalition that has conducted an unrelenting crusade to convince the American people that their health and their safety and–yes–their very survival on this planet is at risk due to manmade global warming. The purpose of this greatest-of-all propaganda campaigns is to enlist public support for, if not just the acquiescence to, a dramatic mandated change in our society and a mandated change to our way of life. This campaign has such momentum and power that it is now a tangible threat to our freedom and to our prosperity as a people.

[xchrom]

1. Figures. Nt

[NickB79]

2. I hope they all live a long, long time

Long enough to see their grandchildren starve as our fields turn to dust due to climate change.

[Flipper999]

3. It won't really matter to them anyway. They'll deny the obvious truth to the bitter end.

They denied that our country rejected their party's philosophy and values on election day, so they'll just come up with some bullshit excuse when their grandkids ask them why the world is turning into an uninhabitable shitstorm. Maybe they'll just say that its God's punishment for tolerating homosexuals.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

4. Right. Besides, their grandkids will probably be among the privileged

... getting the very best of the Soylent Green.

[joshcryer]

8. They'll blame it on "the gays" or "marijuana" or some other immorality.

[AverageJoe90]

11. Probably.

And even if the worst-case does occur, even a 6-7*C temperature rise won't get the most hardcore deniers to change their minds. They'll just blame it all on HAARP, violent video games, interracial friendship, or whatever other pet peeve they might have at the moment.

[Nihil]

9. It would never be *their* grandchildren starving ...

... unless there had been a successful revolution in the meantime (which, face it, just isn't going to happen).

They'll still have their huge TVs in air-conditioned megamansions (behind layers of security) and be able
to watch the Fox News commentators laughing over the poor, poor people in those foreign lands ...

I just want the crunch to come FTE so that they can receive the anger for their dumb decisions.

[CRH]

5. US politics is amazing, ...

Neanderthals control the house, then they control the science allowed into legislation.

No wonder the evolution of US politics creeps.

[octoberlib]

6. This is very frustrating

There is no climate change on Bullshit Mountain.

[AverageJoe90]

7. Lamar Smith? The same cocksucker who wrote SOPA/PIPA? Are you FUCKING joking?!?!

*Sigh*. This is just another side-effect of the gerrymandering that was done back in 2010. The people who came up with that scheme ought to be sitting on prison right now, really.

[northoftheborder]

10. no letters or emails to this joker would make any dents in his skull