Wow, this is old school: On Tuesday the Georgia legislature held a hearing called "Climate change: fact or fiction?" Listen to these blasts from the past:
"In the media, we hear the gloom and doom side," said Rep. Jeff Lewis (R-White), chairman of the House Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications Committee that held the hearing. "There is alternative information out there."
Indeed there is! Puzzlingly, the "alternative information" continues to be offered solely by the same core group of four or five people that have been offering it for years now. But no mind!
"What this has done is it has affirmed my assumption coming in here that there are too many opinions on this subject" to draw a conclusion, said Rep. Clay Cox (R-Lilburn), a member of the House committee.
There you have it. As long as alternative information is available, one cannot draw any conclusions. I wonder if the Republicans in the Georgia legislature apply that same epistemological standard to all their decision making. Seems like it would kind of slow things down.
One thing's for sure, though: whether climate change is fact or fiction, ethanol's the solution! That's something about which Georgia legislators have no difficulty drawing conclusions.
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make the laws we live by are sufficiently well informed
to make decisions based on factual information not
ideological fantasy?
Don't hold your breath.
Picasso.
Who says Communism never gave us anything of value?
If Georgia can abolish climatic catastrophe;
If Tennessee can abolish Evolution;
If a President [and not of the Supreme Soviet] can abolish military disaster;
we are in a brave new world, indeed.
I'll vote for anyone who promises to abolish baldness, tendinitis, Texas, god.
Just pay some hacks to inject doubt and promote the idea that we just need more "debate" long enough to keep people smoking. Apparently consensus means nothing unless 100% of scientists agree (which of course means there can be no consensus since there is no 100% agreement on anything).
A perfect example is this poorly disguised anti global warming site which happens to be run by someone who worked for (drumroll) Phillip Morris:
demanddebate.com/
but they sure like to play dumb when it comes to the environment.
See my comment above.
Of course, I may be imprinting....
To their constituents they seems like mavericks, well representing them, despite long odds. (Martyr syndrome. Can’t lose, since “I was just responding to my base.”)
Since those understanding the dangers of GW will carry the burden and do ALL the work, it eliminates denier need to lift so much as a finger to help save the planet.
My guess? They have investments in “green” companies. They know they’ll make major bucks, and can at some point say, “But I WAS a believer! Look at my portfolio! I WAS saving the planet!”
We should start calling GW deniers “Foxes” as in “crazy like a…”
Thanks, all.
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I like that...
Sounds like something from "The X-files."
But, does that mean that they are going to have to stop endorsing their traditional marriage because they have discovered that there are "Alternative lifestyles?"
Couldn't hurt this gang of Republicans.
Welcome to Georgia, set your clocks back 100 years.