America... A Country Run By Idiots ?

[AAAintheBeltway]

Both of you have good points. Most scientists are not climate scientists, and there is a lot of wiggle room in the category "climate scientist". What bothers we most is when I hear such nonsense as "an overwhelming majority of scientists believe in climate change". This is a statement used by people with a particular agenda because they know the words "climate change" have been co-opted to mean "Hansen's CO2 hypothesis". But since all scientists believe in climate change, then can claim the statement is true, while not admitting how absurdly misleading it is. Or almost as ridiculous "An overwhelming majority of scientists believe in global warming"! This is probably an exaggeration. It states that most scientists believe we are in a warming period. But what does this have to do with Hansen's hypothesis??? What's important is not that most scientists think this or that, but that some scientists, who are experts in the field, don't agree. THAT should give us great pause. The only scientists that should have any standing in the debate over the validity of Hansen's CO2 hypothesis (which is what the scientific debate is really about, or should be) are those working directly in, and publishing in, this area of research. Logically this would include Ph.D. meteorologists, but not TV weatherpersons or all meteorologists certainly, and many atmospheric physicists. But, of course, the field is not strictly limited to these folks.

There are other scientists, such as myself, who have a passing interest in the CO2 hypothesis, and have read some of the original literature and studied the issue to some extent. We may be more knowledgeable than most, but our opinions don't really matter either. It is the ones working directly in the field, and publishing in that field, we should pay the most attention too.

Very well stated. We can measure "climate change." It is historical data, albeit subject to manipulation. AGW is an unproven theory of causation.

The one thing we do know for certain is that nothing obama has done, nothing we can do individually or in our communities, nothing elementary school kids are forced to do, none of it will affect future climate one whit. It is all either disguised wealth redistribution, indoctrination or empty feel goodism.

 

[Ricter]

Thank you for using "AGW". We should all do that, because that's really what's meant by "climate change" in the context of anything controversial.

We do have posters here who don't believe the GW part either.

 

[piezoe]

I know.

 

[piezoe]

Very well stated. We can measure "climate change." It is historical data, albeit subject to manipulation. AGW is an unproven theory of causation.

The one thing we do know for certain is that nothing obama has done, nothing we can do individually or in our communities, nothing elementary school kids are forced to do, none of it will affect future climate one whit. It is all either disguised wealth redistribution, indoctrination or empty feel goodism.

"We can measure "climate change." It is historical data, albeit subject to manipulation. AGW is an unproven theory of causation."

That's succinct, clear, and correct! Thank you.

 

[Yannis]

QUIT BASHING OBAMA!

Quit trashing Obama's accomplishments. He has done more than any other President before him. Here is a list of his impressive accomplishments:
1. First President to be photographed smoking a joint.
2. First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
3. First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
4. First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.
5. First President to violate the War Powers Act.
6. First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
7. First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
8. First President to spend a trillion dollars on "shovel-ready" jobs when there was no such thing as "shovel-ready" jobs.
9. First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
10. First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
11. First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
12. First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
13. First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.
14. First President to terminate America's ability to put a man in space.
15. First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.
16. First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
17. First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
18. First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.
19. First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.
20. First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect, for enforcing an existing federal law (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
21. First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
22. First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
23. First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
24. First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
25. First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.
26. First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in office.
27. First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records.
28. First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
29. First President to go on multiple "global apology tours" and concurrent "insult our friends" tours.
30. First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers.
31. First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
32. First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
33. First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.
34. First President to repeat the Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.
35. First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the 50 American states, for enforcing an existing federal law (Mexico vs Arizona).
36. First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they "volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences."
37. Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion.

I feel much better now. I had been under the impression he hadn't been doing ANYTHING!

 

[fhl]

America and, really, the entire world run by three people.

Obama, Yellen, and Judge Kennedy.
Two of the three promoted by affirmative action, one of which i believe to be a criminal, and the third who got the job by allegedly grossly misrepresenting himself during the nomination process.

I guess we're getting what we deserve.

 

[murray t turtle]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-08/you-live-country-run-idiots-

If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for being in the country illegally, you live in a country run by idiots.

If you have to get your parent’s permission to go on a field trip or to take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion, you live in a country run by idiots.

If you have to show identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy liquor or check out a library book, but not to vote who runs the government, you live in a country run by idiots.

If the government wants to ban stable, law-abiding citizens from owning gun magazines with more than ten rounds, but gives 20 F-16 fighter jets to the crazy leaders in Egypt , you live in a country run by idiots.

If, in the largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but not a 24-ounce soda because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat, you live in a country run by idiots.

If an 80-year-old woman can be strip-searched by the TSA but a woman in a hijab is only subject to having her neck and head searched, you live in a country run by idiots.

If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more, you live in a country run by idiots.

If a seven year old boy can be thrown out of school for saying his teacher is cute, but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class in grade school is perfectly acceptable, you live in a country run by idiots.

If hard work and success are met with higher taxes and more government intrusion, while not working is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks, Medicaid, Subsidized Housing and Free Cell Phones, you live in a country run by idiots.

If the government’s plan for getting people back to work is to incentivize NOT working with 99 weeks of unemployment checks and no requirement to prove they applied but cannot find work, you live in a country run by idiots.

If being stripped of the ability to defend yourself makes you more safe according to the government, you live in a country run by idiots.

If you are offended by this article, I’ll bet you voted for the idiots who are running our great country into the ground.

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But hey... that's Leftism for you.

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the funds go towards scientific [state] wildlife management. Thanks;Godspeed