Behold, The Nexus Of Stupid: KY Legislators Discuss Climate & Energy Policy

[hatrack]

FRANKFORT — State lawmakers' discussion Thursday of the effect of new EPA carbon emission regulations on Kentucky focused more on political attacks than hard science. While committee members railed against the Obama Administration and the EPA regulations they admittedly don’t fully understand — the document is about 700 pages — many lawmakers saw fit to attack the science behind climate change.

“I won’t get into the debate about climate change," said Sen. Brandon Smith, a Hazard Republican. “But I’ll simply point out that I think in academia we all agree that the temperature on Mars is exactly as it is here. Nobody will dispute that. Yet there are no coal mines on Mars. There’s no factories on Mars that I’m aware of.”

Smith owns a coal company on Earth.

The average Martian temperature is -81 degree Fahrenheit, but the committee was just getting warmed up. State Rep. Kevin Sinnette, a Democrat from Ashland, said climate change didn’t kill the dinosaurs, so human beings should be just fine. “The dinosaurs died, and we don’t know why, but the world adjusted. And to say that this is what’s going to cause detriment to people, I just don’t think it’s out there," Sinnette said.

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http://wkms.org/post/kentucky-lawmakers-attack-climate-change-science-discussion-carbon-regulations

[Fred Sanders]

1. Coal miners do not do climate science and climate scientists do not mine coal. Why does every

elected official, when elected, suddenly discover they are Super Experts on everything?
Are voters as stupid and self loathing, to confuse self aggrandizing confidence with correctness?

Mars is the same temperature as Earth but Mars has no coal so climate science is wrong?

And an elected human being not in the Looney Bin said that out loud and every listener did not LOL?

Informed argument is NOT the same as bellicose opinion, not even close.

An expert on climate science is not the same as a idiot and conflicted coal miner owner with a Grade 10 science course up under his belt. Why bother with education at all, everyone gets to be an expert if you can speak loudly and with Great Anger?

"State Rep. Kevin Sinnette, a Democrat from Ashland, said climate change didn’t kill the dinosaurs, so human beings should be just fine.

“The dinosaurs died, and we don’t know why, but the world adjusted. And to say that this is what’s going to cause detriment to people, I just don’t think it’s out there," Sinnette said."

Yes, you moron, the EARTH recovered, in about 100 million years, the Dino's not so much. These idiots do not understand science or time, and they are offended when you point that out to them.

It is a civic duty to offend them a to every opportunity. Mockery is also a good tool. Voting the idiots out is the best medicine.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. "Mars is the same temperature as Earth ..." Holy freaking Hell, what an ignoranus ! nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Hard to believe people so stupid can get elected; depressing one is a Democrat

It's not just that they're climate change deniers; they are such dumbfucks that they don't realise how absurd what they're saying is, or how stupid it makes them look. These people have to make other decisions for their state, and I literally think I could get better thinking by picking 2 people at random from a bar, after it's been open a couple of hours.