Posted on 05/17/2014 4:03:09 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
... Think of it this way: Once upon a time it was possible to take climate change seriously while remaining a Republican in good standing. Today, listening to climate scientists gets you excommunicated - hence Rubio's statement, which was effectively a partisan pledge of allegiance.
And truly crazy positions are becoming the norm. A decade ago, only the GOP's extremist fringe asserted that global warming was a hoax concocted by a vast global conspiracy of scientists (although even then that fringe included some powerful politicians). Today, such conspiracy theorizing is mainstream within the party, and rapidly becoming mandatory; witch hunts against scientists reporting evidence of warming have become standard procedure, and skepticism about climate science is turning into hostility toward science in general.
It's hard to see what could reverse this growing hostility to inconvenient science. As I said, the process of intellectual devolution seems to have reached a point of no return. And that scares me more than the news about that ice sheet.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
Scientists are never wrong. There is no room for skepticism. Listen, I would rather take my chances with climate change than sacrifice my freedom to a bunch of politicians who will take care of the climate ‘for me’. It’s not like the climate has never changed before (with or without humans).
Reading Krugman write about the climate is like listening to Obama speak about Constitutional Law.
“First, Australia cut global-warming spending and now the U.K. has followed. The British government has cut programs to fight global warming by 41 percent, fueling allegations that the country’s environment minister is a global warming “skeptic.””
Krugman is much better at climate theory than economic theory.
I don’t care about the damn planet. I don’t want to be forced to pay for a planet that I won’t be on 15 years from now. Nobody prior to us cared about the damn planet either. They were smart because nothing has happened to the damn planet that God didn’t plan and we are still here whining, bitchin, and sinning. The planet will survive, but we really don’t deserve to.
yeah, I sound callous. Big deal.
The thing about Krugman is he looks the part.
This is amazing! What Krugman is actually describing is the false dogma of global warming.
Just reverse the sides he's talking about, and you've got it right.
If anyone should go straight 'round the corner and never come back, it's Krugman.
quote “witch hunts against scientists reporting evidence of warming have become standard procedure”
ROFL
can you say projection!!!
LOL! And he probably does superstring theory in his spare time.
The hoax is a political one, not a scientific one, you insufferable hack.
Sheldon says that’s no longer valid. LOL
It applies to the leftist POV on every issue that I can think of.
Krugman is a disgrace.
And then the truth about the corruption of the science came out.
The sociology of the two areas, global warming and string theory, is distressingly similar.
good example of the pot calling the kettle black.
its apostacy among democrats to believe anything other than AGM
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