| scalarparty ( @ 2006-04-25 18:12:00 |
| Entry tags: | climate change, obfuscation |
don't worry, global warming is just a myth
some people just wouldn't recognize a 1 1/2" steel rebar
if it up and smacked them alongside the head!
Ok, some people, i guess, have a right to be idiots. I mean let's say your dad was also your brother and his dad was also his brother, sure, you might be as thick as your glass lenses, and it would behoove the rest of us to be kind and not too judgmental. But speaking of mental, some people just don't have that excuse, no excuse for being idiots. And i guess that's when the steel rebar test comes in handy. Because sometimes people can be idiots. And that's not stupid or dim, that's intelligent enough to use a word processor, beligerent enough to think that hubris is better than ACTUAL FACTS, and of course if you are stupid enough to live in a flood plane a second time after the waters have swept everything away, well then you deserve what you have coming... And why the vitriol, you ask? Well I just read something completely idiotic. I mean so stupid that I shake my head (and I've seen my fair share of stupid stuff in the past).
So thanks to this guy, Jonathan Loubiere, (who happens to be an LSU grad student in chemistry-- see, you can be smart and still be an idiot!) He has actually spent time and effort to write about how Global Warming is not yet Proven [sic]. No. Ferreal. This guy is in Baton Rouge LA and says that GW is a myth.
I'm impressed. See, if i was ever stuck in the middle of one of the largest hurricanes ever seen by modern man, and even when CNN (not exactly tin foil hat territory) are saying yup, it's official, Global Warming makes hurricanes get bigger and meaner, and I'm living in a place where, one year later, it still looks like a disaster zone, well i'd be pretty proud of my colossal balls to actually come out and say something so stupid. And his text looks a lot like the bile and tripe that oldschool assholes like the Global Climate Coalition (singer, michaels, lindzen et al) used to write. ((ok this guy is a dick thats for sure --What's his biggest complaint post-Katrina? That there aren't as many good music shows to go to-- But he's not savvy enough to get Exxon money for his efforts)).
Sheesh! What a tool! I mean, it's one thing to be on the dole with an oil company and spew out lies to serve your, well to serve your bank. But its another thing completely when you have absolutely nothing to gain and over 50% of the people in your neighborhood are now homeless. I mean, come on Johnathan, get some of those brain cells working together. Lastly, this little punk ends his obfuscation with this little (overused) gem: "Many of us don’t remember the 1970s articles ran in major news outlets similar the ones today, only they warned of Global cooling and a new Ice age!" OK great. 1) youre 22 fucking years old, that means you were born in '84. So dont tell me what I read in the 70s or how it was portrayed. 2) why not actually go back and look at the 'cooling school' of climatologists, and see what happened to them. did they lose their funding? and lastly 3) why not check out some climatology and see whats going on with the gulf stream about to flip. And check out how Greenland's inland ice (not the sea ice) grew by 11 Billion Tonnes last year. Cause I'll tell ya something, when you start talking about remembering times when you were not born and what lies we were being fed, while distorting the truth and helping NO ONE, y'all better not start talking about how the Ice Age Global Warmers were foolish or wrong, because I will have to defend their honor.