Congress candidate Michele Bachmann's comedy act
Check out this video of Minnesota Senator Michele Bachmann's stance on climate change. The absurdity of her Inhofean message is definitely not lost on her audience.
Democracy is utterly dependent upon an electorate that is accurately informed. In promoting climate change denial (and often denying their responsibility for doing so) industry has done more than endanger the environment. It has undermined democracy.
There is a vast difference between putting forth a point of view, honestly held, and intentionally sowing the seeds of confusion. Free speech does not include the right to deceive. Deception is not a point of view. And the right to disagree does not include a right to intentionally subvert the public awareness.
Global cooling...........
It amazes me how long these myths stick around. I'm almost tempted to put out a global cooling bounty. I have yet to see anyone reference a peer review journal that shows an imminent prediction of global cooling. The national academy of sciences sure as hell didn't. The closest they came was saying there was a 'non zero' chance that it could happen because we had an extremely poor understanding of aerosols and other mechanisms at the time. That 'non-zero' chance went to a complete zero in less than 3 years of work. Every journal that even hinted at global cooling said we had no clue because no research has actually been done.
This is a joke. It's like the truth doesn't matter.
You've seen one science, you've seen 'em all ...
She also has good things to say about evolution. [http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/2006/10/michele-bachmann-on-evolution.html]
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nobel prize winners?
any clue who the "hundreds and hundres" of nobel prize winners are that believe in ID?
Discovery Insitute petition
She is refering to the petition put out by the Discovery Institute. It is as bogus as the Oregon petition. I cannot get a link from the DI's website to it so they may have had it removed since it was so embarassing to them.
Ian forrester
The Discovery Institute
I think that the DI was in an ABC piece by Bill Blakemore -- it turned out to be this little wierd office or something... I do remember it being ridiculous. The piece was called " The flight of the Dodos."
flock of dodos
Speaking of evolution, this documentary should be interesing:
http://logicalscience.blogspot.com/2006/10/flock-of-dodos-new-documentary-is-out.html