Tom Toles for April 02, 2012

And the Republicans have Maxwell Smart’s cone of silence inside too boot!

All climate scientists in the world are lying. We know this because Al Gore is overweight and lives in a big house. Got it?

all weather is due to climate change, always has been: it’s a natural phenomenon…what’s unnatural is the way humans treat one another and mismanage their environment

and before anyone else calls me a liberal I’m simply claiming to be a humanist (also only natural)

And so the denial begins (umm continues).

“Man does not even contribute to global warmiing! Source: Piano Man. (In a related story the moon landing was faked by a bunch of Hollywood liberals.)

We have actually. But then we would have to start in on the liberals’ mansions in California.

Or you could try this one:

http://www.skepticalscience.com/What-1970s-science-said-about-global-cooling.html

Tampa and Sarasota had the warmest March since records have been kept. The human-caused increase of 35% in CO2 is making a difference.

Climate change deniers I can handle. It’s the tin-foil weirdos who claims it’s nothing but a big, left wing conspiracy to deceive the public that never fail to crack me up.

Does Gore’s big house have an elevator for his cars?

This debate always reminds me of the story of Cassandra in the Illiad: she knew Troy would be destroyed by the Greeks, but everyone refused to believe her. In the end, Troy was destroyed by the Greeks and she gets raped by Ajax. While I don’t believe there will be mass scientist raping if the worst comes to pass, I find it disturbing that people still refuse to read the actual research papers showing climate change acceleration and instead choose to believe a talking head on their television or radio. Yes, debate is good for any issue, but to deny the truth of something that has been researched by scientists because someone who’s not a scientist doesn’t like the answer is self destructive. It’s like believing your car can drive 400 miles on the last quarter tank of gas because you don’t want to pay to put more gas in. Yes, when you start out it works just fine, but eventually the gas runs out and everyone else can say “we told you so!”

The 70’s are ANCIENT in terms of climate science, what with the primitive satellites and computers of the time. Just saying. Kansas City just had the warmest March in its history, the least amount of snowfall in its history, and one of the 5 warmest total winters in its history. (Which is only 150 years worth of records, of course, but I MIGHT detect a trend here………..)

The great thing about voidnut and his ilk is that they can say anything in any distorted manner and as Faux and fiends proves there will be many who will blindly believe it.

Where I live climate change happens 4 times a year. Been that way for thousands of years with or without humans. It’s called a big bright yellow hot thingy in outerspace called the sun. It heats the earth unevenly, thus creating weather. Also, it gets, wait for it, hotter when the sun has many solar flares, just as, hold on to your hats now, don’t want you libs to miss this, it stays colder when there are little solar flares. Try to read this slowly, and try not to move your lips when reading it. Don’t want you missing anything.

I believe it was the warmest March for all of the North America and very cold for Europe. Change is in the air…… Enjoy the ride, believers and nonbelievers, it matters not.

For extremist “conservative deniers”, dogma is their rock, which summarizes their intellectual “flexibility” as well.

PianoGuy24 is not only insulting scientists in his (as motivemagus put it, “profound” ignorance), he is also insulting intelligent conservatives. Intelligent conservatives accept that at least part (if not all) of global warming is man-caused. The problem is what to do about it. Cap and trade did work for acid rain (despite people who said it wouldn’t), but I don’t think there’s anything like enough cooperation in the world for cap and trade now. Very depressing.

I was still innocent enough to be suprized when all the republicans voted/or agreed that the don’t believe in global warming.I thought how can ALL of them be so deluded?After that I watched what is happening more carefully and discovered that ALL of them had signed that oath to McConnell that they would put ruining president Obama ahead of Everything Else!He is not ruined yet, but it isn’t from not trying. They have made it more important that the state of the nation, the state of the economy and the welfare of the AMerican citizens.They have also put the Will of the super rich over the needs of the Whole country full of citizens. It makes me sick knowing that over half of our legislators have sold out to big money and that they are being so devisive and threatening of democracy..

Ruff, atma, wabbit, godfreydaniel, motivemagnus, etc -

IF you believe climate change, as in global warming, you’ll believe anything, and I have a bridge to see you also. You go around screaming that the sky is falling the sky is falling! What? We can pay a tax? And all that will do is make you richer and ease my own guilt for my carbon foot print? Wow! Where do I sign up???

Nobody is saying that “the sky is falling” and nobody would be “getting rich” off a tax. The fact is that in March there were over 7500 individual warmest-ever-on-that-date days around the United States cities and towns, and over 80 big cities had their warmest March ever. The ONLY question is: is global warming purely natural, is it purely man-made, or is it a combination? Seems like the most intelligent thing to do is assume that it’s a combination.

republicans are sooo out of touch with reality. They can’t even think for themselves. They have to listen to a fake news channel before they speak (spew)!

Godfreydaniel -

Seems to me Al Gore is doing a pretty good job of shouting the sky is falling while making a bundle off of it….all the while living in a mansion that would make a small town envious of it’s energy consumption. Not to mention how much fuel HE burns flying all over the world to tell other people to cut back.

So, you prefer mercury, lead, and other poisons in your drinking water? Pollution so thick you can’t see the sky? Hazardous chemicals seeping out of your lawn? These are all things that were unregulated when I was growing up. I lived in Cleveland, and remember the Cuyahoga River being bright orange, and that fed into Lake Erie, and THAT is where our drinking water came from. Companies fought against regulations that finally cleaned that up, just like they still are. Please enlighten me on how reducing pollution, and possibly averting a greenhouse effect will kill millions of people. I suspect a global drought in our current food producing zones is much more likely to do so. I know, scientists who do nothing but analyze data and study their chosen field can still make mistakes, but people who watch television all day don’t.

The guy with the piece of paper is the one that should be in the bunker. Does the name Piers Corbyn shrink the size of your planned copy of Al Gore’s $10,000,000 beach front Malibu house.