Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 09/08/2011 5:44:21 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Barack Obama is losing his grip on the White House - and climate sceptic Rick Perry is favourite to succeed him
A year or so ago, the very idea that the most powerful person on the planet could, within just a couple of years, be someone who refuses to accept the science that underpins our knowledge of anthropogenic climate change was almost laughable.
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But everything has changed now. The US economy continues to wade through treacle and, as a result, there seems to be growing talk that Obama is destined to be a one-term president. And currently leading the polls as his most likely Republican successor is Rick Perry, the governor of Texas.
Last night, during the first of three televised debates between the current nominees for the Republican presidential candidacy (Palin continues to play her strategic game of "let 'em brew"), we got to see in high definition what it might be like to have a full-blown climate sceptic as US president. Here's the exchange between the moderator, John Harris, editor in chief of Politico, and Rick Perry on the issue of climate change:
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After Obama's victory in late 2008, many around the world let out a collective sigh of relief that the era of climate intransigence and indifference under George W Bush was finally over. Sadly, it now appears that Obama's brief window for action is over and he is unlikely to ever regain the political capital he needs to implement any serious climate policies. But, most alarming of all, the whole world – not just the US – needs to start seriously preparing for the very real possibility that a staunch climate sceptic could, within 16 months, have his cowboy boots under the desk in the Oval Office.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
...refuses to accept the science that underpins our knowledge of anthropogenic climate change...
An argument via presumptuousness, a presumption that the entire body of human knowledge is owned by the committee that wrote this.
Could that have anything to do with the fact that most of the "science" supporting anthropogenic climate change consists of the catch-phrase "because of climate change" inserted into the "discussion" sections of articles describing completely unrelated studies? E.g., reported incidences of food poisoning have increased over the last few years? It's because of climate change!
AKAIK, the physicists at CERN just came out with a peer reviewed paper that concluded the Sun was the source of global warming.
(really)
That blows-up the “consensus” argument. (Science is not about consensus anyway, but that is another story.)
It’s people like the idiot that wrote this article who keep the Nigerian money scam going around the internet.
There is a guy in Nashville that actually scored on it. I’ll try to find the story.
TRANSLATION:
World Academics and Socialists need to prepare for our Globo’ Warmin’ Scam government grant money drying up.
TRANSLATION:
World Academics and Socialists need to prepare for our Globo’ Warmin’ Scam government grant money drying up.
Awwh man the Guardian is embarrassing (to Brits like me).
It’s like all UK FReepers have a deranged cousin who lives in a barn and rolls in his own excrement. But every so often he gets loose and his ludicrous articles show up on FR.
Well this is just great.
Plus the article mentions “cowboy boots under the Whitehouse desk”, thus effortlessly scaling the giddy heights of madness. At least those boots won’t be on top of the Resolute desk huh.
How ‘bout the truth defeating yet another socialist scheme to destroy our liberty and prosperity in part by destroying access to energy.
But you have James Delingpole and he is AMAZING!!
well you didn’t expect them to run up the white flag without whining and stamping their feet first, did you?
What’s a “climate skeptic” anyway?
Someone who doubts “climate”?
Big Education, Big EPA and Big Lawsuit Abuse are coming after Gov. Perry hoping to nail his hide to the barn door.
He’s seriously taken them on (for years) and they don’t want him anywhere near the Executive Office.
Good point — AGW, global cooling, global warming, global climate change (do we REALLY have to say “change” anymore — I guess so for the contraians), global climate disruption....
They appear to be ass-kickin’ boots...
We could use a pair.
I point this out to make people aware of a standard tactic of the left called “conflation”.
You change the language of your argument to include a non-debatable word/concept to include your questionable concept or term.
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