Sadly, the new outbreak of massive wildfires in Texas has forced Gov. Rick Perry to return home and temporarily suspend his efforts educating voters that global warming is really "all one contrived phony mess that is falling apart under its own weight."
Perry cut short a visit to South Carolina where he was campaigning for the Republican nomination for president. He also canceled a campaign trip to California.
The wildfires, unprecedented in history, are the result of a massive drought, also unprecedented in history, and a massive heat wave, also unprecedented in history, which has already caused over $5.2 billion in agricultural loses.
Perry has been using his campaign trips to cast doubt on the whole idea of global warming, and to promise not be spend taxpayer money on climate change research or policy: "I don't think from my perspective that I want to be engaged in spending that much money on still a scientific theory that has not been proven and from my perspective is more and more being put into question."
Given that the global warming-caused wildfires are zero percent controlled and rapidly expanding, Perry said it was too early to say whether he would be able to attend Wednesday's GOP debate in California and continue his important work of denying the existence of global warming.
Fun facts from the Texas Forest Service:
These so called unprecedented fires in Texas are not about the fake global warming scam but the multiple frag ups by government from regulation to intervention in peoples personal property rights so as to make it impossible for Texans (or any other states citizens) to deal with nature effectively including fires.
Before government butted in and screwed it all up people could do as had always been done in Texas to minimize risk for fires like setting controlled burns, setting up natural fire barriers (i.e. clearing tress and the like to create fire lines) and clearing dead/fallen wood from the area that acts like an enhancer after its had time to dry out. Any fireman worth his salt thats not being paid to be some kind of "face" for the government will tell you that the extensive fire problems in this country are from the intervention of government and so called "Green" organizations that only make problems worse from their ignorance of how to work with nature.
Texas's fire problem is NOT from the Global Change fear Campaign!
BTW didn't the marketing people at "Carbon Credits Are Us" decide to switch from Climate Warming/Cooling to Climate Change?
That's just plain dangerous. I desperately fear a man who relies on a little voice in his head that he calls God to make his decisions. We just had a president like that and he got us into this huge mess.
Those guys are the first - and sometimes only - responders in rural areas.
Conservatives will not respond to scientific evidence. But once you've made it clear that LIBERALS are trying to interfere with GOD'S CLIMATE PLAN, you'll have angry mobs out there with guns and bibles, screaming that we've got to stop Obama from changing the climate.
(How's that climate change-y thing workin' out for ya??)
The house will triple funding for the EPA! And the Senate won't filibuster it!
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/go-green/go-green-climate/2011/09/02/scientist-left-speechless-as-vast-glacier-turns-to-water-91466-29349051/
Upside: get some airplanes up there and BRING BACK THAT WATER.
If we "combat global warming" through aggressive action, we are at the very same time combating a number of other things that badly need combating: overuse of natural resources, carelessness, just plain greed and for God's sake the population bomb, to name just a few.
No one has provided a significant piece of evidence that human activity is not spurring warming. The only sane thing to do, in the face of the utter lack of such evidence, is to act as if it is. Humans are solely responsible for deforestation, which demonstrably removes protections against warming, and pumping of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, which demonstrably accelerates it. To say nothing of the current rate of extinctions, which adversely affects the biodiversity necessary for biotic balance.
To continue to put the burden of proof on those who have plenty of evidence backing their case is to say one thing and one thing only: PARTY ON!
Which is great until the sun comes up after the party.
The Lorax was right. Were kids the only ones who got that? We need to stop biggering.
We might once have called this "restraint," something we as a species badly lack and have never needed more.
At the end of any argument , the unanswerable question is ,
"What , in and of itself , is bad about cleaning the air , the water , the ground?"
Please submit your proof. What would be the current weather in Texas if not for global warming?
The current weather would probably be somewhere on the curve.
The "proof" for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is an example of how conservatives manufacture proof and accept it as "sufficient enough proof" to act upon, since invading Iraq is what they wanted to do in the first place.
They don't want to respond to global climate change, and so there will never be enough proof of it.
http://screencast.com/t/y7VloqdK
Also Bob, why has annual rainfall been increasing for the last 116 years? Here is the data again
http://screencast.com/t/Khy3Xvo0xw4
My research shows that La Nina has much to do with drought in the Southwest and there is in-situ data showing that past drought lasted 60 years in the Southwest. I would also bet that land change use from the growing Texas population over the last 100 years also influenced climate. My conversations with climatologist suggest that climate change trends require 30 to 50 years to identify themselves via data. Why the anti-science noise suggesting that one or two years of weather is somehow proof of global warming affecting Texas? Were you also suggesting that record cold and snow elsewhere in the USA in recent years is proof that global warming isn't real? Again go back to the temperature and precipitation data that I linked to and enlighten me where you see unprecedented trend in Texas climate and what is causing the trend because I don't see any in the data.
Here brainiac, here is the data straight from the source.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip/time-series/index.php?parameter=tmp&month=7&year=2011&filter=ytd&state=41&div=0
Is your position so weak you have to lie? Guess you already answered that question
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip/time-series/index.php?parameter=pcp&month=7&year=2011&filter=ytd&state=41&div=0
Note the trend line is down. The trend is on both charts is noted at the top. Simply put, more heat, less rain. Oh and I didn't cherry pick, I used all the available data, 1895 to today.
the ether communicates radio waves . . .
So when can we expect you? Bastrop is burning...I'll meet you there.