This is exactly what I expect from Republicans: A big song and dance to distract voters from the fact that nothing’s getting done. They can hire “Hip Hop” Michael Steele to choreograph since he’s about to become unemployed.

in a sane world, these people would be nowhere near any position of power. I wouldn’t trust them with a gas pump nozzle.

However, California, may be showing the way. It’s the only hope right now.

It’s like an episode of star wars. the planet is hanging by a thread, and these oil blinded morons are going to p rove only one thing:

that they are morons.

Aliens, please show yourselves now, and save us.

Thanks dday!

The GOP will never admit the science and we will never be convinced by the pil company paid science.
This is about jobs and wealth we need to convince America not Congress that we can create more jobs going green than we can selling arab oil to Americans.

The GOP says there is no global warming then fine insurance companies have to sell people on the coast hurricane insurance at affordable levels.

If there is no such thing as global warming all insurance policies and credit default swaps that deal with global warming are null and void and the money must return with interest to the original person.
This will give us hopefully the names of some big players betting on global warming but they also fund the global warming deniers.
Give a million to the GOP global Warming Deniers but bet 10 million that Florida’s coast will go under water.

I think this is one case where one can safely say, ‘Bring it on.’

Being a science major as an undergraduate, the Rs anti-science agenda is both what first alerted my to their complete wingnuttia and also distressed me no end, and continues to do so.

Discrediting science, from my particular POV, is the front line of societal disintegration.

The only people who won’t get the incoming water are the ones in fly-over country. They will be suffering from lack of water and the coasts will be knee deep in alligators.

Will the Canadian Geese bother to go South this year or will again the winter be to warm this year for them to bother going south?
I still can’t believe the Media has not picked up on that fact.

Well at least we’ll all learn a little about climate science in the next couple of years through the show trials. Last time, all we got was information on cigars, dry cleaning (or lack thereof) and the meaning of “is”.

Um, no alligators in NYS. Maybe knee deep in water, maybe few sharks (oh the horror).

Government by conspiracy theorist nuts! Yep, this country is done.

Respond with Ridicule, Ridicule, and more Ridicule.

Confidently treat all attacks on science as the superstitious nonsense it is.

Is this like the greatest set-up for Sen. Al Franken, or what?

Al Franken was put on Earth for this task.

What a waste of time.

Let’s tell them to move directly on to impeachment.

That might get real bi-partisan support.

Given the heat and an expected increase in the power of storms the longer the GOP fights this battle the better for us.

Isn’t it strange that the wingers think we would have a conspiracy about global warming, of all things. They are condemning their grandchildren to a very difficult world.

i said this someplace else, so if youi read it already my aplogies. but it boggles my mind. sure, i’ve heard about these ant-science types. what loons. how can people vote for them? my new representative was asked if she believes in evolution. “I’m a Christian” was her answer.

I didn’t know that. But last winter here was the coldest I can remember in a long long time…Spring was like 6 weeks late…. And now so many acorns are falling that are actually just bouncing off the roof and side walk..just piles of them…..gotta be a sign… don’t know what of, but very strange….squirells having a big time.

We had almost no summer and it’s November and some places in Ca are still going into the 80s.

I’m sorry, but with the big bucks on the anti-science side, ridicule is a completely ineffective response.

Remember it took the R.C.s over 400 years to clear Gallileo, and while the setback to science was not 400 years in duration, was still distressingly significant, in terms of one human’s lifetime.

Huh? WTF are you talking about?

Some places will get colder but the wet coast Seattle had cherries blooming in march. Northern Illinois before I went west had several years in a row where the Canadian Geese stayed all winter.

We went from cold to burning hot in a week. Still mostly very warm, hi 70′s low 80…a few cool nights 60′s…but that’s fairly normal here… Winter comes the week before xmas and usually nice weather by Mardi Gras

Think about global weather weirding, rather than warming. It is thought that warming & weirding converge, but the choice of words accommodates the seasonal variation you cite.

I grew up in Buffalo, NY in the 1950s & 60s, and let me assure you that no winter in recent years bears any relationship to the severity of the winters I experienced a mere 50 years ago.

Global warming means more heat. Heat is energy wind the more global warming we have the more powerful the storms.

Yep, I’m just hating that our particular weirdness seems to be colder winters. I’ve lived in MI,OH,CO and NC…and spent 8 months in Seattle…had all the cold weather I can stand.

The larger effort here is to weaken the EPA, who is under court order to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as a pollutant.

They could mount a similar effort against NASA by showing how the moon shot was faked.

In her farewell address,

Suzanne Kosmas stressed the importance of compromise and reaching consensus. She hopes that Republicans will build on the accomplishments. She worked to get KSC funding for a future space program.

No mention of the wonderful HCR bill that tanked her.

Compromise and Consensus. That’s what everyone wanted after getting steamrolled by Republicans and Dubya for eight years.

Compromise and Consensus were the cause of Kosmas’s abbreviated career.

No sense of Irony.

My grandfather thought they got drunk in the desert and just thought they were on the moon.

That happened to me once at Joshua Tree, but it was the result of mushrooms.

oh, hell no. I saw it on the teevee myself and my granny said if it was on teevee it had to be true.

LOL

One properly placed line can destroy 10′s of $billions in public relations efforts.

One sentence from Walter Cronkite started the US withdrawal from Vietnam.

My Grandfather had a grade school education flying to the moon was a bit hard for him to grasp. But the GOP congressmen all went to college what’s their excuse:)

I’ve been on TV many times, and let me assure you, nothing might be farther from the truth!

Curiously enough.

Like now, after photoshop, photos are prolly farther from the truth than well crafted fiction.

Turns out photos always had a larger element of drama (if not fiction) than you’d a thunk. For example, Matthew Brady often rearranged bodies on civil war battlefields before ‘shooting’ them (with the camera), for a more dramatic effect.

Willful ignorance. And there’s lots more where they came from.

You know how money Lockheed, Boeing, etc. lose if they were to make the space program look like a bad investment?

GE would run anti-nuclear power ads on NBC first.

(Never been one anti-nuke story on NBC. Not one.)

Yeah, it’s unsettling to think what’s spread as truth. Way back all I had to worry about was my granny getting caught up in some of the early televangelists….and her a good Presbyterian. I’d hate to think what she’d get up to if she could see the world now.

You know how money Lockheed, Boeing, etc. lose if they were to make the space program look like a bad investment?

They’ll be OK so long as war is never made to look like a bad investment. We can count on both of these parties to make sure that never happens.

There are two sides to a witness table in the hearing room and the camera defers to the witness side. Let’s have real science put up against the ignoramuses on national TV.

Of course the fox-narrative will be the arrogance of science but the soundbites will be the arrogance of willful ignorance.

I’d like one witness to have the presence of mind to simply say “Congressman, if you believe half of the garbage you spout, you’re an idiot.”

I won’t hold my breath though, it might be a career-limiting statement for anyone dependent on a government grant.

Quite a contrast to those halcyon “Impeachment is off the Table” days ushered in by Pelosi. Now science and reasoning too.

Obviously the string-pullers of the GOP know the mendacity of the anti-science claptrap, but it keeps a useful block of useful idiots in reserve. Soon enough, Beck will be deemed to sane for Fox.

Global weirding – This is how I explain it when I happen upon a discussion bashing climate science:

“Try a grade school science experiment – Make a terrarium, tend it, and when it’s really lush and green, squirt some Windex in it. The next day sprinkle some Ajax in it. The next day spray some Pam or another cooking spray in it. I can’t tell you whether it’s going to be hotter or colder inside your terrarium, but if you keep poisoning it, everything in it is going to die.”

I guess doing that makes me a liberal troll. Citing statistics and observations from the most brilliant scientists on the planet is ineffective, but reminding people of what they should have learned in grade school works because most people don’t think of their fifth grade science teacher as elitist.

There is such a strong tradition of anti-intellectualism in America that the Repubs can get away with this.

OK… Let me apologize up front… But I can no longer hold my tongue… These people are just plain STUPID! Sorry Jon Stewart… But I do not know what else to call this?????