Saturday, May 30, 2015

Today's Reading - Knowing Less Than A Fifth Grader About Earth Science


Timothy Egan:
You thought he was the smart Bush. You thought he was the reasonable one. You thought he was the Republican with one foot in the 21st century, the man who wasn’t going to say crazy things to win the primary voter who believes in crazy things. But you haven’t been paying attention to Jeb Bush.  [snip]

...Bush the youngest believes the Earth is warming. No doubt, he’s willing to go further out on a limb and conclude that heat expands, cold contracts and a dolphin is not a fish.


That’s as far as he’ll go. He says the science is “convoluted,” even though the latest assessment from international climate scientists states with 95 percent confidence that humans are the cause of a sick planet. That obfuscation is also understandable. You simply cannot be a leader of the Republican Party without appearing to know less than a fifth grader about earth science.
Catastrophic Texas floods.  Historic California drought.  Polar ice melting.  Highest monthly temperatures on record.  But, they're not scientists.  Just fools and charlatans.

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