Nebraska commissions a climate-change study, but no scientist will go near it.
The problem, according to members of the governor-appointed Climate Assessment and Response Committee, is that the bill behind the study specifically calls for the researchers to look at “cyclical” climate change. In so doing, it completely leaves out human contributions to global warming.
At a discussion yesterday, the Omaha World-Herald Bureau reports, Barbara Mayes, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, pointed out that “cyclical” isn’t even a scientific term.
And it’s not just a misuse of language: State Sen. Beau McCoy, who added the word to the bill, is a known climate denier. “I don’t subscribe to global warming,” McCoy said during an earlier debate about the legislation. ”I think there are normal, cyclical changes."
More on the GOP’s intra-partisan civil war front: Rick Santorum blasts Ted Cruz.
I just pray (and I’m an atheist) that the Republicans keep up this circular firing squad through the 2014 election and lose control of the House. It is such a relief, after decades of the GOP being the disciplined party, to see them falling apart like this.
Not that I expect the Dems to be smart and disciplined enough to fully capitalize on it, as the Republicans have traditionally done with Democratic disorganization, but maybe if the Dems just stay out of the way, the Republicans will do themselves in on their own.
And I hope to Og that David Letterman is right: “People are saying that Republicans got nothing out of the [government shutdown]. Not true. They got eight years of Hillary.”
bup
November 4, 2013, 7:12pm
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…and the article misspells it laudi
Isn’t that what a quarterback calls when he wants to change the play at the line of scrimmage?
Only when he wants to praise his choice to change the play at the line of scrimmage.
Zakalwe
November 5, 2013, 2:58pm
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Was he for the new play after he was against the old one? (or something like that)
Also, you’d have to look at how the PACs score it before you really know.
Zakalwe:
Was he for the new play after he was against the old one? (or something like that)
Also, you’d have to look at how the PACs score it before you really know.
The Bears beat the PACs (somehow) last night, so that’s good.
I would vote for Hillary just to see neocons heads explode when they had to say ‘President Clinton’ again.
Zakalwe
November 5, 2013, 9:08pm
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Isn’t Russia usually symbolized by a bear? And isn’t Russia Commie? And aren’t the Bears from Chicago?! And isn’t Obama from Chicago!?!?!?
Oh my god! It all make so much sense now! It’s the COMMIE TAKEOVER!!!1!!!1!
Skammer
November 5, 2013, 9:36pm
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Connect the dots, people!
digs
November 5, 2013, 9:40pm
11613
And then explode again when Chelsea’s elected.
[beats Jenna Bush, who only carries Alabama and Idaho]
Please, it’s “Connect the dots, sheeple !”
No, the sheeple are all named “Dolly,” not “Dotty.”
Republicans-even-stupider-than-imagined-disenfranchise-own-voters
Tarrant County [Texas] Elections Administrator Steve Raborn said Saturday that people who might find themselves in a similar situation should cast a provisional ballot and obtain identification needed to “cure” it within six days. […]
Raborn's office reached out to people who might have expired driver licenses, such as those who live in nursing homes, to let them know that the license can be expired by no more than two months to be a valid photo ID for voting. […]
90-year-old Jim Wright, the former speaker of the House, was prevented from voting because of this requirement, one which disproportionately affects seniors with lapsed IDs.
Kobal2
November 6, 2013, 12:22pm
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“OK, so I want you eggheads to experiment and do whatever it is you do to prove my preconceived conclusion. That’s how science works, right ?”
It is in Nebraska. Anyway, AGW does not appear in the Bible, so clearly it isn’t something we need to be worried about. What we need to worry about is God’s-wrath-induced climate change. Potential Texas GOP senate candidateDavid Barton lays out the watertight theory best:
All this “climate stuff that we can’t explain,” Barton explained in a conversation with televangelist Kenneth Copeland, is God’s judgment wrought down on us for, among other things, abortion.
Together, the two worked out this basic sequence of events to explain their alternative theory of climate change:
America voted in politicians who support abortion rights.
In so doing, we “opened the door to the curse,” which includes floods, tornadoes, murder and pedophilia.
Back in the days of early America, Barton explained, if crazy weather was happening, the first thing leaders would do is “call for a national day of repentance, humiliation, fasting and prayer … and today we’re saying, ‘Oh no, it’s global warming.’”
In reality, he said, “We opened a door that lost God’s protection over our environment and that’s our choice.”
sylmar
November 6, 2013, 2:54pm
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Try2B_Comprehensive:
It is in Nebraska. Anyway, AGW does not appear in the Bible, so clearly it isn’t something we need to be worried about. What we need to worry about is God’s-wrath-induced climate change. Potential Texas GOP senate candidateDavid Barton lays out the watertight theory best:
Have you informed FXNoMind of this groundbreaking revelation? I’m sure he’d like to incorporate it into his latest version of Global Warming Theory.
Well, that and being 1500 miles inland.
