[neverdem]

Mark Hertsgaard's Climate change: Galileo moment for GOP (agitprop alert!)

[Dan(9698)]

There was another scientist/mathematician who figured out the earth revolves around the sun.

I think his name was Aristarchus and he lived in Egypt.

The politically connected won the argument and so it was determined that the sun went around the earth.

That was the Politically Correct for then.

It took 1500 years for the Politically Correct dogma to be found wrong.

How long will the PC BS last this time?

[Da Coyote]

The EPA knows about as much science as the Obamaloon.

And to measure that amount of knowledge would require that we divide one by an extremely large number.

Remember, real scientists don’t work for the EPA.

[The Great RJ]

In Galileo's time there was a consensus of scholars who believed that the earth was the unmoving center of the universe and that the sun, moon and planets all revolve around the earth. Anyone who was a denier of this dogma was persecuted by the Inquisition as a heretic. Galileo was a denier and used true scientific method to prove that the earth centered universe was wrong and was persecuted as a result.

Doesn't this sound more like Al Gore's consensus of scientists supporting the global warming dogma and anyone who disagrees is labeled a denier and is persecuted. No new scientific inquiry that might disprove the global warming dogma is allowed.

[John Locke]

Just to correct an error:

And he [Galileo] was the first to observe the phases of Venus, which could only be explained if both the Earth and Venus orbit the sun.

That's wrong. The Ptolemaic system indeed requires that Venus never show more than a crescent, so Galileo's observation that it shows all phases - immortalised in his sentence Cynthiae figuras aemulatur mater amorum - refutes Ptolemy. But it is compatible with both the heliocentric and Tychonic models of the solar system, and so does not directly refute the geocentric hypothesis.