Kind of like Bush saying that the air smells just fine.

Another more or less accepted fact which Barton has oh-so-conveniently forgotten or chosen to ignore is that climate changes have in the past often resulted in the extinction of many (sometimes even most) of whatever species are dominant on the planet. Admittedly, we have a better chance than other species before us have had of surviving climate change by dint of our capacity for reason and the technologies which we have developed — but that’s still no guarantee that the consequences of climate change might not have a severe or even devastating impact on our species and how we live, and sticking our heads in the sand simply because we don’t want to think about it isn’t an effective way of dealing with this.

This is all the fault of mixing religion with reality.

Sure, Barton ‘believes’ in global warming. Sure. George W. Bush ‘believed’ Saddam had WMD. Cheney ‘believed’ torture would produce actionable intelligence. Rumsfeld ‘believed’ the Iraq

Ask the folks in Galveston what they would think of a little sea rise and increase in hurricaines.

As the folks in the dessert areas of Texas what they would think of a few more degrees.

It’s right up there with Reagans “trees cause air pollution.”

It’s just hard to stop laughing when I read this. How’d he get elected. Did all the republicans in this country cheat to get into office?

Can’t anybody talk some sense into Obama, Gore, McCain, Brown and Merkel about how temperatures rise first, and THEN carbon-dioxide levels rise.
Carbon-dioxide doesn’t cause warming, sun activity does, warming causes CO2 levels to rise.

Wrong. Solar activity has actually decreased over much of the 20th century, while average global temperatures have risen. And carbon dioxide does cause warming, as ice cores have revealed. It’s just that in the past, this has been part of a feedback loop occurring after a natural warming cycle has already begun – usually due to orbital shifts or other natural Malenkovitch cycles.

The situation we have now – where CO2 is rising BEFORE temperatures rise – is unprecedented. That’s why it’s so dangerous.

Humility and patience has never gotten any respect from the braggarts of the world. It doesn’t make one’s dick hard to contemplate how little we know and how little the universe cares for our conceptions. Far better to stand on a rock and shout than stand on a rock and listen.

Listen, punk.
Whether you’re an arrogant teenager or a lazy adult, listen instead of talking.
Nature has been speaking, and scientists have been taking it down. In numbers, charts, spectrograms, the stripes of chromatography and curved isobars.
You want to be able to come to conclusions about this without that work, without that listening. You want to believe you can understand Dante without learning Italian, Goethe without knowing German, Pushkin without knowing Russian. Because you’re a genius. a poet. You think you understand Zen without all that tedium.
And you think you can understand the infinitely greater poetry without listening to the transcriptions of Nature’s singing.
And of course there are fat radio hosts to tell you you can.
Sure! You’re Howard Roark! You’re the Crown of Creation! In apprehension how like a God! You’re the King of Infinite Space!
Except for the fact that you have those bad dreams.

Listen, buddy.
Global Warming for you is about CNN and Al Gore. You feel you’re the equal of all that. You figure that, since you’re a genius, you’re better than those fat politicians, who can’t figure out what you’ve figured out.
Your lazy ass makes me sick.
All that math, all those reams of data–you can’t be bothered to learn the science. You can’t be bothered to unlearn your egotism.
You Know Better.
And so you listen to the evil people who stroke you, and say you don’t have to work at it. And you believe their lies because they make your dick hard.
And the Universe is speaking to you in torrents of infinite wisdom, and you refuse to listen to Her instead of Them.

People, let’s pray that Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) doesn’t experience a drought…
… Often.

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It’s time for Barton to retire. Big polluters… lol