So much for being the smarter brother.
What Jeb is doing is what all self-described climate “skeptics” do: they demand equal consideration for their views, which are represented by a vanishingly small minority of scientists, and cry foul when they’re inevitably not given the respect they feel they deserve. It’s a commonly employed and useful trick for making the other side seem unreasonable while transforming yourself into a victim of intellectual persecution. Climate change deniers just want to have a “conversation,” much in the same way that tobacco company scientists just wanted to talk about the unsettled science linking cigarette smoking to lung cancer, or how lab-coat creationists want to simply “teach the controversy” about Darwinian evolution.
The goal “climate skeptics” are pursuing by demanding this “conversation” is inaction, which, at this point, would be a criminally unwise policy. The debate over climate change is not whether we can avoid the negative consequences of warming the earth, but rather how much pain we’ll choose to inflict on ourselves. As Vox’s David Roberts writes, mitigating as much of the damage as possible “would require an utterly unprecedented level of global mobilization and coordination, sustained over decades.”
If he’s going to lob charges of “arrogance” at people who are unnerved by the scientific consensus pointing at a looming global disaster, you’d think he’d have something more serious as an alternative than “eh, the free market will take care of it.”
davidm:
I’m thinking that the “intellectual arrogance” thing is the new talking point, since the “I’m not a scientist” thing was roundly met with derision. I suspect that this one will meet with a similar lack of success.
Next up: “I have a secret plan for removing the carbon from the atmosphere.” (With apologies to Richard Nixon.)
Oh, it’s not so secret . But it might lose Jeb the RR vote.
Huckabee defends Josh Duggar. I mean, I get innocent until proven guilty, but can there really be political capital to be made out of touching this radioactive shitstorm?
Nah, that won’t work due to the pesky second law of thermo dynamics which the activist liberals on the supreme court refuse to recognize as unconstitutional. We didn’t have it in 1776 so we don’t need it now!
I blame Obama.
davidm
May 22, 2015, 6:04pm
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If he could do that, I’d probably vote for him. That would solve pretty much everything.
There can if you’re still feeling uneasy about quashing an investigation intoyour own son killing a dog for fun at Boy Scout camp.
FactCheck weighs in on Jeb Bush’s “Arrogance” comment:
Jeb Bush claimed that the science is unclear as to how much humans contribute to global warming. The United Nations climate change research organization, however, has deemed it “extremely likely” that more than half of the observed temperature increase since 1950 is due to human activities.
davidm
May 22, 2015, 8:54pm
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Sure, but that’s the arrogant, commie, fascist, Muslim, socialist, Nazi, atheist, pinko, smelly, dirty, alcoholic, child-molesting, (add your own epithets here) UN.
bup
May 22, 2015, 9:07pm
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Not to mention it’s FactCheck.org , who everybody knows are a front for MoveOn.
Which is a front for ACORN.
Which is a front for the Freemasons!
No love for the Rosicrucians, who could teach you to make your thoughts fly? Learned later on my own how to make my thoughts fly, but they didn’t come back. Maybe for the best.
Who are a front for . . . the Rotarians. This New World Order thing is all rather boring and vanilla, actually.
George Carlin bit, from memory: A reporter is interviewing a political candidate:
REPORTER: Do you think your religion might be a problem?
CANDIDATE: Yes, I do. I think bigotry is going to be a big thing in the future. Bigotry and prejudice and hatred.
REPORTER: So what are you planning to do about it?
CANDIDATE: The only thing I can do, Bob. I’ve renounced my religion.
REPORTER: Really?!
CANDIDATE: Really. I mean, let’s face it, the Rosicrucians ain’t gonna miss me! I never went to the meetings, I never ordered the candles . . . I found the application in a dirty magazine!
Actually, it’s the Illuminati at the bottom of it all.
… standing on the backs of larger illuminati, who are standing on …
Morgyn
May 23, 2015, 3:01am
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Turtles.
It’s turtles all the way down.
Illuminati disguised as turtles.
I, for one, welcome our new Turtle Illuminati overlords.
