Doltapalooza - Woodwork Erupts With GOP Candidates Denying Global Warming, Belittling Science

[hatrack]

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In California, Republican Senate nominee Carly Fiorina used a recent ad to mock Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Boxer for her description of climate change as a national security issue. “Terrorism kills — and Barbara Boxer's worried about the weather,” the Fiorina says in the ad.

Ken Buck, Colorado’s Republican Senate nominee, is also on record saying he’s not a believer in man-made global warming. “I'll tell you, I have looked at global warming, now climate change from both sides,” he said in March on the Aaron Harber Show, a weekly Denver interview program. “And, and I don't believe, while I think the Earth is warming, I don’t think that causes are the primary factor for global warming. And, and I am one of those people that Al Gore refers to as a skeptic.” “I think he calls them a denier,” Harber said. “Deniers?” Buck replied. “OK, OK, I’m one of those folks.”

Local media have quoted several other top-tier Senate GOP nominees questioning climate science. “There is some question as to the validity of the science,” Rand Paul told the Lexington Herald-Leader in March. Connecticut’s Linda McMahon is quoted in the Hartford Courant last December saying, “I think there's evidence to the positive and to the contrary about global warming.” And the Tampa Tribune recorded Florida’s Marco Rubio in February saying, “I don't think there's the scientific evidence to justify it.” The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee also produced news reports of Pennsylvania’s Pat Toomey and Washington’s Dino Rossi questioning climate science.

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New Mexico GOP nominee Susana Martinez told POLITICO in Albuquerque on Saturday that she had her doubts about the role human activity plays in global warming. “I’m not sure the science completely supports that,” she said. In Florida, conservative Rick Scott — locked in a tight primary battle with Bill McCollum — told the St. Petersburg Times he’s not sold either. "I have not been convinced," he said last month. Asked what he’d need to convince him, Scott replied, “Something more convincing than what I've read."


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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41192_Page2.html

[old mark]

1. If these people manage to elect sufficient numbers of their own over time,

I am concerned we may see a new dark age in the US. The people who disbelieve in science-as if science were based on belief-tend to believe in magical thinking and psuedo "religions" and wish to impose their views on everyone else (for our own good, I am sure...)

Many Palin lovers seem to believe she was sent by heaven to lead the US away from what most of us know as reality into a new age of "religious" government, a sort of "christian" Iran or Saudi Arabia...

If you think this is not possible in the modern world, look at the people who are stoned to death for violating "religious" principles...it is legal in 5 or 6 countries, including our great ally, Saudi Arabia...

FWIW, it is usually women who are stoned to death - the men seem to get lesser punishments. Also remember women in these countries marry whom they are told, usually as one of 3 or 4 wives. Women's testimony in court has 1/2 the weight as that of a man's. It goes on...
This all sounds like fundamentalist America to me...

I may be paranoid, but that does not mean I am wrong...

rec.

mark

[The Croquist]

6. Oh please!

Just because someone isn't convinced in man-made global warming doesn't mean they don't believe in science or that they are about to stone people to death. Exactly what part of Sharia law reminds you of Fundamentalist America?

I am skeptical about anthropogenic global warming but that doesn't mean I pass snakes, stone women, marry my sister or don't believe in science. In fact I wouldn't touch a snake unless it was a small constrictor, haven't thrown a stone at anyone in 40 years, wouldn't marry my sister and in general agree with many scientific theories but keep in mind that anthropogenic global warming is a theory not a fact despite the claims of Al Gore. Gravity is a theory. So is evolution. That doesn't make either of them false. It simply means that they are theories.

I don't think you are paranoid, I think you are bigoted.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bigoted

big·ot·ed
–adjective
utterly intolerant of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own.

[Warpy]

2. I'm deeply frightened that Martinez character will get elected

She's obviously got the lion's share of the funding and has been doing blitz advertising. This state is owned by oil and liquor, pretty much, and they've obviously backed the idiot to the hilt. In addition, she's a "Lawn Order" ex prosecutor with a combative nature and that appeals to a lot of people here who have been beaten down by the economy. Never mind she's the voice of the party that did all the beating.

We've been lucky with GOPs in the past, Gary Johnson didn't do much but he was OK, someone who used the office to speak against the drug war. Martinez is a Nixonian without the charm or compassion Nixon had. Plus, she's courted and received a Palin endorsement.

She's going to undo a lot of the good Richardson has done and I imagine her first act will be to retax food.

Ugh. Horrible woman, all the way around.

[stuntcat]

3. kickety

:kick: for the retardican Shame.

[IDemo]

4. Once, when demoing a new business laserjet,

She couldn't figure out how the durned thing operated. "I'm afraid I don't really understand how these things work", she said (or words to that effect).

The same thing apparently happened when she cracked open a textbook for the first time in her high school earth sciences class.

[Nihil]

5. Hey, Fiorina?

> “Terrorism kills — and Barbara Boxer's worried about the weather,”
> the Fiorina says in the ad.

Wanna guess how many people get killed per year by each?

You can even be a climate change denier (i.e., take the figures as they
are without putting *any* growth due to changing weather patterns) and
you still will not be able to avoid seeing that "terrorism" is nothing
but bluster, bullshit and distraction compared to the *real* causes of
death in the world.

:grr:

Sadly, most of her potential voters have the intelligence of a stunted
cabbage and so will lap up every piece of crap about "terrorism" whilst
ignoring the truth.