The GOP's Senate takeover means the chamber's leadership positions will be filled with Republicans next year. That's bad news for the environment: The Senate’s worst climate change denier, James Inhofe of Oklahoma, will likely chair the Environment and Public Works Committee. But it's also bad news for science: Texas Senator Ted Cruz, another climate denier, may be next-in-line to become chair of the Subcommittee on Science and Space, which oversees agencies like the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.In a February interview with CNN, Cruz said he doesn’t think the Earth is warming.“You know, you always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called scientific theory that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they have defined it, can never be disproved, because whether it gets hotter or whether it gets colder, whatever happens, they'll say, well, it's changing, so it proves our theory.”He then parroted a myth beloved by deniers.“The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn’t happened,” said Cruz. “You know, back in the ’70s—I remember the ’70s, we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.”Cruz does believe in aliens, though."I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody," he once said. "Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians. I’ll work with Martians. If—and the if is critical—they're willing to cut spending and reduce the debt."
Goodbye NASA...
Food for thought
Quote from: DAS B00T x2 on November 06, 2014, 05:12:31 PMGoodbye NASA...Under Clinton, NASA budget declined. Under Bush, it was raised
Food for thoughthttp://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/the-republican-party-isnt-really-the-anti-science-party/281219/YouTube
Quote from: Kinder on November 06, 2014, 05:18:04 PMFood for thoughthttp://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/the-republican-party-isnt-really-the-anti-science-party/281219/YouTubeHow has this changed since 2009? The Republicans of pre-Obama time were [marginally] less about partisan bullshit.
Quote from: Mad Max on November 06, 2014, 05:22:44 PMQuote from: Kinder on November 06, 2014, 05:18:04 PMFood for thoughthttp://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/the-republican-party-isnt-really-the-anti-science-party/281219/YouTubeHow has this changed since 2009? The Republicans of pre-Obama time were [marginally] less about partisan bullshit.Which is why I provided an article from 2013 that explains the extreme blow-up of the somehow stigma that Republicans are majorly anti-science
New RepublicQuoteThe GOP's Senate takeover means the chamber's leadership positions will be filled with Republicans next year. That's bad news for the environment: The Senate’s worst climate change denier, James Inhofe of Oklahoma, will likely chair the Environment and Public Works Committee. But it's also bad news for science: Texas Senator Ted Cruz, another climate denier, may be next-in-line to become chair of the Subcommittee on Science and Space, which oversees agencies like the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.In a February interview with CNN, Cruz said he doesn’t think the Earth is warming.“You know, you always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called scientific theory that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they have defined it, can never be disproved, because whether it gets hotter or whether it gets colder, whatever happens, they'll say, well, it's changing, so it proves our theory.”He then parroted a myth beloved by deniers.“The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn’t happened,” said Cruz. “You know, back in the ’70s—I remember the ’70s, we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.”Cruz does believe in aliens, though."I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody," he once said. "Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians. I’ll work with Martians. If—and the if is critical—they're willing to cut spending and reduce the debt."Sigh
funny, because there is no proof of climate change. Meteorologists know this is true. The ice caps caps should be melted by know according to Al Gore
Quote from: Xboxdotcom on November 08, 2014, 04:39:47 PMfunny, because there is no proof of climate change. Meteorologists know this is true. The ice caps caps should be melted by know according to Al GoreEl Bustin's newest ruse? Nonetheless, that's not true since the Ozone layer has been repairing itself from CFC damage for the past few decades.
So?Climate change has happened all throughout history.
“You know, you always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called scientific theory that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they have defined it, can never be disproved, because whether it gets hotter or whether it gets colder, whatever happens, they'll say, well, it's changing, so it proves our theory.”
Climate change denier may lead the Senate on science
